Well my mock-up inner packaging project is finally complete. Making little boxes is far harder than I'd imagined!
Basically from a confident start with the bottom right box, which looks more or less like the original, my handiwork went straight down hill from there! I didn't have enough of the right card and ended up using a cereal box! Anyways, here it is and so it'll stay. I enjoyed doing it.
I also feel a bit of a fool. After blogging that there must be variations in these toys' gantry bases as mine differed from Ferryman's, I have since discovered that I was wrong. Mine is exactly the same! It was my base plate that stumped me. It had detached from the gantry and fitted so snug on the crawler floor that it looked like a part of it! Doh!
For comparison purposes. here's Ferryman's original toy on which I based my packaging project. What do you think readers? Anyone else got any original SWORD packaging?
That's a very nifty job reconstructed the interior compartments, take a well deserved bow and all offered applause !
ReplyDeleteBack in the day the most amazing inner packaging was done, by my experience of such, by the Mattel Toy Company. The clever way a single sheet of cardboard was folded and cut to safely hold the contents until such being 'freed' for play often bordered on brilliant.
Credit due to the now long lost art of scenic packaging, that being where the interior contents were often posed in a colorful diorama setting, viewable through a large clear plastic 'front-window' of the box.
Remco Toys was the king of such with their Voyage to the bottom of the Sea playsets and Hamilton's Invaders items.
That's a great job! Plus it'll help keep the parts in wonderful shape. I am also glad the Mystery of the Crawler Platform was solved and it wasn't due to those meddling kids and their dog.
ReplyDeleteI work for Vectis auctions and currently looking at a very nice Cape Kennedy set- has all inner packaging...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads- up Kathy.
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