Best Wishes from Paul Vreede

THOSE PUPS JUST KEEP ROLLING THEIR EYES

 Years ago my friend Paul V discovered that LP Lik Be re-used their toy puppy eyes as space domes. You can read about this fascinating discovery on his fab SpaceX website.

https://www.triangspacextoys.info/SpGAderv/LPHK/LPhkSmTy/LPdomes/LPdomes.html

Those domes are a mindworm. I just cant help coming across rolling dog dome eyes. I've spoken about blow moulds before and here's another one in the US, a large ball visible underneath that propels the pooch along.

This is a big puppy at 12 inches long, much bigger than the LP Space Dog but the same principle.

Paul V has just found one of these doggies pictured in a French Sitap toy catalogue too!

Can you spot any dome eyes readers? Keep your eyes peeled.

Let me know.

CRUISE OVER MOONBASE

From the 2021 archive, a lovely image of SpaceX Cruisers created by my friend Paul Vreede. they are actually flying over where I live!

THE PROJECT SWORD TOY THAT NEARLY WAS!

 Over the last 15 years there have been many revelations about Project SWORD toys.

Like all SWORD fans the prospect of finding a new SWORD toy has enthralled us above all.

One of my absolute favourite revelations was the research my friend Paul Vreede did into the Hover Tank and his efforts paid off spectacularly when he unearthed registration documents for an actual Hover Tank toy!

Sadly, the toy was never produced but you can see the results of Paul's fantastic sleuthing on his own brilliant SpaceX Toys website.

Enjoy!

https://www.triangspacextoys.info/SpGApapr/rUKdsgns/MA944883.html

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 .....

Hot Selection Box

 At Christmas I received a fabulous gift of Hot Wheels from my good friend Paul V in Belgium.

A complete surprise here are some of the old die-casts kindly Paul sent me including some Redlines no less!

And so, as the last candles of Christmas finally fade into the New Year my thoughts are turning towards cleaning up these old beauties as best I can, with a cup of tea and a forgotten mince pie.

Paul V's Trains

Seeing as people are showing off trains, here's what I'm up to. A loose-lay Hornby clockwork oval with working Control System. I found I'd run out of metal wire of a certain thickness so I didn't fit the guides for same and improvised with leftover electric wire instead.

With oiling done (very important to remove friction for clockwork operation), I'm now debugging the track. Which after 85+ years is far from straight or level but I'm sorting out the kinks one by one.

Best

Paul V

Belgium

OVER THE MOON

 A Christmas or so back my friend and fellow SpaceX fan Paul Vreede kindly sent me a wonderful gift, his take on the Project SWORD Moon Crawler.

Paul used an old SpaceX Surveyor as the basis and what a fantastic job he did!

Bloggiversary Special: Folding Space by Paul Vreede

 https://www.triangspacextoys.info/xOT/rocket2fold.zip

From Blog supporter Paul Vreede, comes his super origami model of the infamous 'LP Brand' Rocket! 

Often seen in the little window boxed space toy sets, the rocket is a very distinct design which has endured for decades. Paul has kindly adapted an earlier design that depicted the Star Wars X-Wing, to resemble our favourite rocket!

If you click the above link, it will download a printable template and some instructions for the rocket!

This is my own pathetic effort! I used a sheet of A3 paper and printed the square template on it at around 20 cm square, which folds down to about an 8cm tall rocket. I am by no means good with Origami, so it is a bit rubbish! I would recommend watching the YT video for the X-Wing folding on which it is based, which is very easy to follow.

BLISTERS YOU WANT

 

This is just one picture of the huge array of different blisters found over the last few years containing varying assortments of LP and Apollo Moon Exploring toys.

This Toy House one even has the Billy Blastoff miniature space car or 'space sled'.

Paul Vreede's fab SpaceX website features many more of these sets as does the prolific Space Trucks You Tube channel of Steve Nyland. See the links below.

Have you blisters like these?

BLISTER ATTACK

 

Here's another of the galaxy of plastic spacemen captured in rack packs.

This is by Toyco of Montreal. Super Space Action.

The card art rings a bell.

Here's similar if not the same alien antics on Toyco's bigger boxed Alien Attack set [pic courtesy of Worthpoint]

Did you have any Toyco toys?

Rover the Moon!

I received this fabulous Moon Crawler from friend Paul Vreede for my birthday. 

Paul did a wonderful job converting a SpaceX Surveyor. The detailing is superb! 

I hope these photographs do it justice as I was and am literally over the moon!

Thanks Paul!

Scratchbuilt space station moon base was a gift from Wotan in 2010.

A Happy New Year from Paul V!

A BIRHDAY MESSAGE FROM PAUL V