Tray Station

 Further to my earlier Hairspray Starship post, I've now added a painted lunchables tray truck to my spray ship to haul it round the dark side station.

Go for launch! 

Or should that be lunch! 

Sticking Around

 Ever since I played with my Action Man German Soldier as a kid I was intrigued by the stick grenades Palitoy provided, as seen here on eBay.

All grown up now and not wanting to pay the prices for these albeit superbly made toy? replicas available in eBay and elsewhere.

... I thought I'd experiment and make my own, whilst my Friday morning sausages were frying.

Using a plastic vitamin jar I tried different 'sticks'.

Chair leg.

Bike pump

Different plastic top and wooden pole

Monochrome set

And my personal favourite, with a watering can spout, ready for throwing at my mates back in 1970! 

Hairspray Starship

 Back from helping my elderly Sister I've been relaxing with an empty hairspray can, a gift ball, a cracker tray and some paint.

I made a basic spaceship.

Made of two parts

Let the adventure begin! 

Boarding Now! My Home-Made Transcontinental Birthday Bus

 Just in time for the 18th bloggiversary, I thought I'd have a crack at making the superb OK Toys Transcontinental Express Bus, as seen in various Gerry Anderson shows (covered here many times, click on the label below).

Here's an original toy. How I would have adored it as a kid! Did you own one? Do you?

Anyways, as luck would have it I bought some acrylics in Home Bargains and bam! That plastic box they came in spoke to me. 

It said, OK Toys! 

I then remembered an old compartmentalised clear bits box in the greenhouse and that had passenger area written all over it too!

Yep, the project was a go!

I began with some simple cardboard seating.

The passenger part was inserted into the plastic paint box. A front dash was added.

I built up the front with Lego and staples. My Silver paint didn't work well.

The bus's sides were made of coloured card.

Wheels were courtesy of drinks bottle tops I'd stored for a rainy day.

More card for the roof and a shaped raft of kebab skewers covered in foil made a decent side panel. The bottle top tyres were painted black.

The passenger box was re-inserted and the Missus' craft supplies sorted out all the button hubcaps, front and rear jewel lights, top three bell lights and side jewel portals. The front bumper got silver foiled.

And done! 

The bus is now departing from Moonbase. All aboard!

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Here's an original OK Toy

And here's my home-made effort done on a drizzly Friday in the kitchen. 

Status Quo's Dog of Two Head on loud, what fun I had with at that superglue!

A few pics of my Express on its maiden trip. Hope you like it.

The Fondant Fireball: My Home-Made 'JR21' Birthday XL5

 Pleased with my shampoo Supercar I thought I'd have a crack at another toy I didn't have as a kid, the JR21 Quercetti Fireball XL5.

The original beauty was a simple enough rendition of the famous Gerry Anderson rocket, complete with Quercetti's famous parachute device. It came complete with a gorgeous box and sheet of adhesive stickers.

Seeing a variety of fuselage and nose-cone colourways, I opted for the classic grey and yellow with a white stripe.

I began with a short plastic tube from the Greenhouse grandkids toy pile. To this I added some plastic wings cut from a box lid and a bottle top for the exhaust. I then added a stand to help with glue positioning.

Detailing was glued to the wings and exhaustbin the form of beads and match bits.

A camping gas bottle cap was cut to shape to create the ribbed band in front of the exhaust.

A plastic fondant icing nozzle was purloined from the kitchen to make the nosecone. Plastic fins were added and intermittent detailing between them.

The nose, Fireball Jnr., was painted yellow.

The fuselage with dorsal fin was sprayed slate grey, a band of white tape was so fixed to the front, a tiny plastic blister helped out and the nose was stuck on.

A tall stand was fashioned from bits, painted grey and the rim painted yellow.

And here's the finished DIY JR21 Fireball XL5. 

Hope you like it.

Here's my two recently home-made Gerry Anderson vehicles together.