I've often lamented the fact that my three Moonships remain unboxed:
The white C21 Moonship, The blue Ahi Super Rocket Plane and the tinplate Chinese Moonship.
They have remained without properly-made boxes for decades, so I thought maybe it's time to sort it out, Moonbase style.
Having tried before to make boxes for two of them back in 2009, I remembered that the source material is crucial. The better the source the better the box.
There is no better Moonship box source than our friend Arto in Helsinki Base. With a collection second to none Arto kindly agreed to photograph all the sides of the C21 and Chinese ships and send them to the project's art department, namely Wotan Bill.
The Ahi ship is still the elusive box of the three, still the only known picture being a tiny one in a book and only part of it. Thankfully it's in colour, but more on that later.
Once the art dept had worked his magic the copies were then sent to me at MoonBase on both thin paper and thin card for cutting and construction.
Setting to yesterday I attempted a first dry run of the Century 21 box using the thin card graphics.
I learnt a lot doing this test piece. The card needs to be much thicker, the joints pr-scored, better glue and a thicker window film that creases.
So here's test run box 1, the Century 21 Toys Moonship.
A joint effort (thanks Arto and Bill), we hope you like it.
Watch this space - ship!
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