I love plastic moonscape dioramas. Ever since I saw one with the Spacex Superset and the Johnny Astro toys, I was smitten. It was so much easier to imagine that the little plastic toys from LP and Tri-ang were landing on the lunar surface, when there was an otherworldly terrain to aim for.
However, I am mystefied as to why almost all of the available moonscapes are all painted blue! I got a set of four Dekkertoys vacform moonscapes from the early 80's and shaded them in blue tones, to match the two main ones.
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| DEKKERTOYS |
I picked up a small vacform battlefield diorama, only about 8 inches long and after a quick wash of blues and lilacs, It made for a nice base for some of the very small toys.
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| BATTLEFIELD DIORAMA |
AIRFIX LEM BASEPLATE |
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The Tri-ang Luna-Cy game goes a step further and gives you a whole moon hemisphere to play with too! You could attach this to the back of the door and blast spring powered rockets in to it!
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| TRIANG LUNA-CY GAME |
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People were obviously obsessed with the song BLUE MOON. Certainly the BBC used to play it mercilessly, the Perry Como version that is.
ReplyDeleteOh wow! The nostalgic toy rundown I never knew I needed, but do I ever!
ReplyDeleteThose baseplates were such a feature of our childhood and you've scraped them all together into one wonderful steaming pile!
Well done!