Wednesday, 10 September 2025

I'm a Rocket Tin



Paint tins were essential kit back in the Sixties. No self-respecting boomer would be caught without a tin tray of watercolours.

And so it was in East Germany too. This Varia paint tray is just wonderful with those rocket and satellite illustrations. 

Did you have a tin of paints readers? 

6 comments:

  1. Wow, I would've really liked that. Paint sets like that are still around, or at least were when my kid was little (early 2000s).

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    1. Me too Baron. Would have brightened up the dullest of skool days!

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  2. Perfect graphics on that beauty - wow! SFZ

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    1. It is. DDR design SF, economical and stylish.

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  3. thats a lovely tin, its Sputnik 3 and Lunik 3 probes at the top and a made up rocket along the bottom, possibly loosely based on the Sixties Hawk Apollo model: https://fantastic-plastic.com/atlassaturn-interplanetary-space-vehicle-by-hawk-models.html

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    1. Thanks Anon, great info that. Soviet probes eh.

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