Sunday Morning: Sofa So Good

What a week! Phew! Sorry I've not been blogging much. My new employ is taking it out of me [I was a man of leisure for 4 months before Christmas after all] and nights have been spent writing Part 2 of the SWORD article for the next issue of FAB, the club magazine of FANDERSON. It's all done now, well at least the text and most of the pictures [thank you Swordies for helping with this!]. Just my own stuff to shoot now, which the FAB Co-editir is doing this afternoon, which I'm looking forward to as I hardly ever get my toys out en masse. Just need to heat up the Moonbase Loft, it's freezing here today!

Lying on the sofa slurping coffee I've been searching for vintage tinplate space boats. There's quite a few from China and they sort of remind me of Scout 1. They pop up on fleabay and Vectis from time to time. Here's it's box art compared to the Universe Reconnaissance Boat:

There's something very attractive about the Universe Rec. Boat box art and toy. Some thought and car have gone into them. I even like the illustration on the boat itself. Anybody got one of these?

 The Milky Way Boat has less confident box art but the toy makes up for it in pure space swagger. It's a pimped-up Scout!

Probably the rarest of the tin space boats is this one [?], going on the scarcity of pictures on the net, the Zeus Forces Super Man Space Ship. Is it based on a comic character? The toy is clearly the same as the Universe Rec. Boat [top picture].

An interesting side-channel for Scout 1 fans maybe, does anyone else like these tin boats? Anyone know any more about them?

Right, best rise from the settee [sounds like Dracula!] and take the Mutt out for his winter walkies. Brrrrrr!