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Thursday, 15 August 2019

MY LATEST SCRATCH SPACEX TOY: THE SALVAGE CRAFT

Its been a strange week since coming home.

I've badly burned my thigh with red hot tomato soup and finished my latest plastic model SpaceX toy.

The Salvage Craft.

Here's the original Tri-ang card illustration.


Here's my scratch toy.


This was a relatively quick scratch job compared to some of the others I've done this summer.


It's illustrated on the Triang SpaceX backing card towing the Nuclear Freighter. I haven't made one of those this time but I did knock up a tow bar. You can see it here 'towing' a real Nova Rocket to the Moonbase Scrappers.


Here's the Salvage Craft with its scratch pal the LAMA and a real NOVA 1 toy.


Fortunately I bought a bag of half plastic beads years ago for a never-produced Task Force blog exclusive but one of them made a great little cockpit blister on the Salvage Craft.


The hardest bit was shaping the yellow plastic body, which I messed up on the two back curves. They're not equal!


I raided our lego box for the blue side struts, which light up nicely when illuminated.


These final shots are overlit but I left them in.


Hope you like my kitchen Salvage Craft!

It's my second go as well. I made a clay model 10 years ago as blogged at the time, along with a painted 'Matchbox' Nuclear Freighter

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2009/04/sword-dream-factory-salvage-craft-and.html
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8 comments:

  1. WOTAN8/15/2019 9:37 am

    Another amazingly accurate model in the bag, I honestly dont know how you manage to source parts that fit together so well! Brilliant job!

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    1. WOODSY8/15/2019 12:12 pm

      Thanks Wote! I always remember that line in Iron Man. Tony Stark made one with a box of scraps .. in a cave! Ha ha.

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  2. SCOOP8/15/2019 12:27 pm

    Fantastic job, Woodsy. Your enthusiasm for these scratch-builds holds no boundaries, nice one.:)

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    1. WOODSY8/15/2019 12:37 pm

      Ta very much Scoop. I know what my next project is too now thanks to a free toy telescope on our Grandson'S comic. An ATS! Ps. I nicked the plastic telescope before Junior saw it. He got loads of dinosaurs free with the comic. I know, shameful! Ha ha

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  3. Tony K8/15/2019 6:18 pm

    These scratch build models are works of improvised inspiration Woodsy. You've got a talent there. Well done :)

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    1. WOODSY8/15/2019 8:18 pm

      Thanks a bunch Tony. A big box of plastic bits really helps out!

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  4. Anonymous8/15/2019 6:24 pm

    Another excellent creation there, Woodsy. The likeness is unmistakeable! My hat is off to you once more. :)

    Best -- Paul

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    1. WOODSY8/15/2019 8:21 pm

      Thanks a lot Paul. I enjoyed doing this small plastic update on the Das Pronto one I did 10 years ago.

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