What If? LP had taken over from Tri-ang

 Well they say the devil will make work for idle hands and its a slow afternoon in work, so I decided to have a bit of a play. I love the old sixties box and card art and the original Spacex cards and boxes are probably the most standout examples of the period. Spacex used actual models photographed against backdrops for their card backs and despite one or two of the models being pre-production versions and slightly different from the toy, they are great little designs. I took some shots a while ago, of small LP and Imperial space toys on one of the blue vac-formed moonscapes, so today I thought I would mock up a card based on the idea that LP had picked up the ball for the space toy market after Triang and Pippin had ceased trading the line.

I had fun with some other models previously, making carded Excavators and SWORD miniatures on Moon Traffic cards, but I had never made a card back. So for this one, I used the photos I had already taken and superimposed them onto a Spacex card, which had all the text and imagery removed and just left the nice dog eared edge.

I also dropped the signature Golden Astronaut from the card too and went with the idea of a 'looky-likey' layout, which at a cursory glance might attract a childs eye to a toy line similar to the original.