While visiting a model shop recently, I came across this set of Bachmann Plasticville Sitting Figures With Paints, Item No.2914. It includes...

Hello Woodsy, In reply to Mish (in the comments earlier this week), Springwell models do take acrylic paint.  Here's my painted Springwe...

Good Lord, I had one of these in the Sixties!  Was it called Spiral Art! This modern one is basically the packaging box with a small motor a...

The recent item by Ed Berg about the Empire Plastic Corp. vehicle and building set was great. https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2023/01/...

  This hand-painted LP Moonbus appeared on Ebay earlier in the year. I like the S.O.A.R badge, which calls to mind Project SWORD. Yellow and...

Terranova47's young Grandson has been painting plastic recast Marx space figures of late. Here are photos of the end results with an add...

 I remember space being everywhere when I was a kid. It was the go-to feature for all our stuff. Here's the type of paint box I would ha...

 I saw this on auction earlier in the year and kept the pic. Some of the spacemen and space toys have been painted, possibly by a kid. I thi...

Hi all,            Here is a You Tube video by Adam Savage, formerly of Mythbusters, on how to dry paint or glue quickly. Make a dryin...

I half remember these arty crones, the Colour Witch. I'm pretty convinced I had them as a lad in the late Sixties. Anything to do with m...

Woodsy I saw your post, http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2020/06/painting-space.html , and it reminded me of this paint box ...

I love this old paint tin with its spacey lid! I'm pretty sure I had something like this as a kid. This was advertised on the S...

My Humbrol Sea Blue arrived in the post. I've slapped a coat on my Sky Ship 1 and .... I hate it! There's nothing for i...

Hi Woodsy, Headed up to the local shopping area. I finally managed to get some new Hot Wheels, including the Mattel Dream Mobile yo...

I adored Denys Fisher's Paint Wheels as a kid. I got it one Christmas in the Sixties. The pens. The wheels. The paint. Wow! ...

I remember Painting By Numbers sets at Christmas. There were always one or two perched on the arm of the sofa my prezzies were piled on...

One of those mysterious but creative gifts we got at Xmas in the Sixties was poster paint. I've absolutely no idea what it was. ...

I knew I had a paint set called MIST-O-MATIC! Phew, thought I was dreaming. After a short mooch round my loft I found it! Voila!  I...