Blue Moon

Well ive had a productive weekend in the sun, after I received the set of four vac-form moonscapes last week, I set about trying to make them a little more useable. Whoever had them first wad washed them over with black and brown acrylic paint, making them look more like bomb craters. The 1960's Spacex Superset included a small vac-form moonscape and that for me set the standard for toy moon landscapes, a pale blue with subtle shading. Matt Mason and Action Man had similar environments and the Tri-ang Johnny Astro set also came with a small square of blue moon. Consequently, I decided mine should follow a similar theme and took one of the four scapes and gave it an initial wash of pale blue emulsion, lefto ver from decorating the kitchen! As you can see above, the Dekkertoys scape is a good deal larger than the original Spacex one featured on the right. The detail is a little shallower too, although the overall height is greater.

Tri-ang Spacex

Dekkertoys

Dekkertoys and Molab

Dekkertoys

Dekkertoys

Spacex Closeup

After a couple of coats of emulsion, I picked out the shading with a violet acrylic to emphasise the colour. I tried to airbrush the detail on so it matched the Spacex version, but the airbrush nozzle seemed to be damaged and it spattered the paint. So I resorted to dry-brushing more blue emulsion over the acrylic to knock it back a touch and then finished off the highlights with some matt white emulsion. Overall i'm quite pleased with the effect and fetched out my Kelloggs Molab and an orange LP rocket. Like the Tri-ang version, the scale of the craters is a little off for the standard Spacex moon vehicles, but suits the smaller toys much better.