Task Force Moon

Inspired surely by the film Destination Moon, the late Fifties produced the blue tinplate Yonezawa Moon Ship shown above. It's plastic lookalike in the Sixties is our friend the Project SWORD Task Force 2 shown here in yellow Tarheel version, red Century 21 colours [picture is backwards] and white Japanese miniature [not to scale].

The classic V2 rocket shape featured on countless colour covers of 1950's and 60's pulp space and sci-fi magazines. Here's just two: Space Science Fiction 1952 painted by Orban and the Worlds of Tomorrow 1965 with what could be a burning Task Force 2 painted by Schelling [courtesy of Nyrath the Nearly Wise].

Yonezawa Moon Ship pics via Vintage Space Toys and Uncle Als Toys