Cosmobile Face-Lift

One of the Superfast cars I picked up at the Diakonie was the cool space-age Cosmobile.

It required a full colour uplift using a blue sharpie and silver and yellow paint pens. 

What do you reckon?

Was the Cosmobile part of a wider space theme from Matchbox?

My New Camper

I'm chuffed with my new car boot camper. It's a beauty.  Matchbox Super Kings Camping Cruiser from 1970. In superb nick too. No restoration needed. See what you think.

BATMOBILE DOCUMENTARY

For those readers with an hour to spare and a passion for the Batmobile here's a high quality documentary about the most famous car in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqB96KNK9r8

German Jeans

I got this old plastic knight yesterday. He looks like a page boy. Is that an errant? It's made by Jean of West Germany. Anyone know Jean?

AT THE VANGUARD

I mean Wow! This is vanguard heaven! Look at this bad boy from Japan! What do you think? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oov7GBNfr6A

Drivin' Saturday

Driven to a car boot this morning. Not a bad haul of Superfast for tidying up. Some old Hot Wheels and Yat Ming too. Not sure about the action figure. 

Any good?

Ant-Ecedent

While we are on the subject of Ant's and the model which never made it into the toy line, here are a couple of examples of custom attempts to bring the toy to life. The first one is a mock up box, made with artwork from the 'Wee Willie Winkie' strip in Ranger comic.

The illustrations were clearly based on the published photographs of the Grumman concept vehicle itself.

A long while back, while bemoaning the fact that no actual toy existed, I set about cobbling together a couple of models from plastic gumball capsules. The black and white version used one of the Kinder Maxi egg capsules, which are about 3" long, Capsela wheels and and a piece of capsela Spacelink for the rear module.

The second, earlier version is a gumball capsule, with Spacex MEV wheels and a Lego brick.

The closest we can actually get to a toy version is the little space rover in the Comansi Coman Boys Space Set. The wheels are a similar sprung suspension design and the body is a nice capsule like shape.

ANT-TASTIC: A MODEL OF THE ANT

There's a fine image on this Long Island Aerospace History page of a model of an ANT in 1962, a Grumman Lunar Landing Concept. A real life working prototype is also pictured from 1964.

The ANT made a one-off appearance in a strip in the 1968 Project SWORD Annual. Alas it never made it to the toy workshop.

Is it a vehicle you like?

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2018/02/long-island-aerospace-history-site-and.html