NUCLEAR FAMILY

Its all systems go down the Woodsies Nuclear Hangar. The team are readying for full MoonBase evac to Titan. 

But what food and drink should we take?

My own Two Fleet

 Ages ago my friend Paul Vreede treated us to his website he'd created to celebrate Triang SpaceX toys. I thinks it's fair to use words like definitive and beautiful to describe it.

In it was and is an image that captured my imagination so much that I always wanted to recreate it.

The image is Paul's group photograph of his genuine SpaceX II toys, a terrific feat of collecting and feast of Seventies space plastic arranged fabulously on a black background. It's stunning and shown below, borrowed from Paul's website.

Here's my own attempt at the SpaceX II fleet done in 2019. I've posted it before on MC but this version I've tidied up with a blacker background. 

All the vehicles I made from scratch. 

They include the presumably never produced red crash tender and yellow rocket carrier. 

I plan to restage it with more models at some point. It's always fun to celebrate Paul's picture, which inspired me so much.

But for now .....

KEV D'S FANTASTIC SPACEX POSTER

Hi,

Here is that poster I had done of my Spacex MLP and P3 Helicopter scratchbuild. 

(I've included a clearer picture below of the actual image too).

Take care,

Kevin D

UK

FORKLIFT ON THE MOON

Hi,

Haven't got any bulldozer dioramas but here's my scratchbuilt Forklift 7 on the moon.

Take care, 

Kevin

UK

MY HOME-MADE SPACEX SOYUZ 6 & 7 TOYS

Here's my new home-made SpaceX toy.

Soyuz 6 & 7

I based my design on the toy featured on Paul V's brilliant Spacex website.

The bodies are made from deodorant roller tops.

The engines are salt bottle caps finished with cap gun ring caps

The solar panels are segments of an old metal bracelet

The orb heads are plastic golf balls

I've included the docking magnets described on Paul's site. It docks perfectly!

I ran out of red enamel early on so had to use water-based red. Not ideal but it worked OK.

The lettering is my usual sellotape/ letraset trick

Quite tricky, I enjoyed making these Soyuz a lot.

In my haste though I forgot to add two silver radar poles. I've a good reason for adding them now as something dramatic happened when I took this moon shot.

I hope you like these Soyuz.

HOME-MADE SPACEX SURVEYOR 2 TOY: ALL DONE AND DUSTED!

Phew! That wasn't easy especially the blue windscreen. After a couple of duds I ended up sawing a Hermesetas box in half! It sort of worked I hope.

Not sure what to do next!

SCRATCHBUILD SUNDAY: MY HOME-MADE SPACEX ATS TOYS

I finished making my scratch SpaceX ATS toys today.

Great fun to make: one orange, one black.

The orange one is more plasticy and toyey. The black one is more like the original Tri-ang toy.

The left one is made from a toy telescope from a comic, the right one is part of a bike pump. Both have other bits stuck on too.

I couldn't create the telescopic sight effect of the original toy so I attempted other additions.

This one has a glass mirror top and an original SpaceX wheel hub as its base [not shown]

This one has an in-built torch ....

and an interchangeable glass mirror top too.

The hardest parts by far were the two silver solar panels, which I made from a dolls house fireguard plus some other parts. Not great but they'll do.

Now completed they were installed into the scratch fleet by Moonbase crew.

and eventually they made it into the cabinet!

Hope you like them.