love that ID chart - these are obviously pre-production models, you can see the bulb for the interior light on the forward cone of Booster Rocket, the task force ships all seem to be made of wood and the Probe Force series seem to have been retouched at the original photograph stage, as the chequers on PF2 seem to have been painted on! Moonbus has that mysterious badge on the nose too...
i reckon this was probably the reference for the SOLO strip too - if you look at the drawing of the TF3 'Space Ambulance' its almost the same as on the id chart.
I agree WOTE. I reckon the Moonbus is an unusual T in a Circle version with a T badge on the nose. the Booster Rocket and the Scramble Bug look more or less complete [the Bug had a very early C21 model number so it may have been ready for the photo] but as you say the rest look like drawings and models and prototypes. The Dyna Soar has no livery!
I recon the Ambulance can be made by smoothing the nose of a 1:48th Super Sabre into the tail unit of a S[pacex Mobil HQ and scratch-building the wings?
love that ID chart - these are obviously pre-production models, you can see the bulb for the interior light on the forward cone of Booster Rocket, the task force ships all seem to be made of wood and the Probe Force series seem to have been retouched at the original photograph stage, as the chequers on PF2 seem to have been painted on! Moonbus has that mysterious badge on the nose too...
ReplyDeletei reckon this was probably the reference for the SOLO strip too - if you look at the drawing of the TF3 'Space Ambulance' its almost the same as on the id chart.
ReplyDeleteI agree WOTE. I reckon the Moonbus is an unusual T in a Circle version with a T badge on the nose. the Booster Rocket and the Scramble Bug look more or less complete [the Bug had a very early C21 model number so it may have been ready for the photo] but as you say the rest look like drawings and models and prototypes. The Dyna Soar has no livery!
ReplyDeleteI recon the Ambulance can be made by smoothing the nose of a 1:48th Super Sabre into the tail unit of a S[pacex Mobil HQ and scratch-building the wings?
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