DYNAMITE! MY JUICED-UP DRAGSTER

I adored this Speed King Cougar Dragster as a kid so it was a no-brainer grabbing this write-off at the local boot sale.

Missing its engine and lots of colour, it was in a sorry state.

I fenagled a new engine out of bits and gave it the sharpie treatment on those bald patches. Now it's got a purple marbled look!

I chromed up the engine and the fenders.

I tried PVA as a glaze on the roof, which worked well. I then tried Modge Podge as a glaze and wish I'd stuck to PVA for my nice sheen.

Not perfect but still dynamite!

What do you think readers? 

COSMIC SLUMBERS

I found this in my general photo archive and just realised its a ... bed!

Is that something you'd sleep in readers?

WILL'S Z VICTOR 4

The Bradgate talking Z car!

but what did it say?

Courtesy of Will O.

You got one of these?

MY GENERATION

 Here's some of my old Transformers and friends like Gobots, a recent collecting passion of mine. Some Generation 1 from the 1980's with some later bots, they've all been found at Car Boot Sales over the past couple of years. It really is fun rummaging through boxes to find these old toys.

Do you collect Transformers?

AW SHOOT!

Moonbase once featured a self-propelled gun toy from Spain, the Sanchis Cannon. I thought I should know this vehicle, but I can not find an exact match.

It looks rather like the American M40 155mm Gun Motor Carriage (the American term for a self-propelled gun), but the rear is too open, the gun seems to be mounted on a turntable, and the drive sprocket is at the rear, not the front. Another candidate would be the similar, but smaller, M41 Howitzer Motor Carriage, with a 155mm howitzer. It is still not right, it too has a front drive sprocket, and only five road wheels per side.

The French AMX 13 F3 was another self-propelled 155mm gun from the 1950s, and the hull seems to be the best match, and it has a spare road wheel on the front plate, but it too has a front drive sprocket, and five road wheels per side.

The toy looks to be mounted on an American Patton tank hull from the 1950s. Perhaps they just used an existing tank lower hull, and added a new upper body ?

I have an old Hot Wheels toy which I picked up some time ago at a fair, which is very similar. It was originally called Aw Shoot, later re-named Shell Shocker.

According to the Hot Wheels Wiki page for the model it was released in 1976, although mine as a copyright date of 1974 on the underside. Also marked Hong Kong.

Metal hull, plastic upper body and elevating gun. The tracks are solid, with the model running on four small, concealed, black plastic wheels.

What do you think?

Paul Adams from New Zealand

X KRULL

 I saw this Xbox promo poster online.

It immediately made me think of this.

Hmmm. Maybe I was thinking of something else!

Kelly Freas maybe?

Anyways, I don't have an XBox and I've never seen Krull.

Is either an issue?

Postscript:

Maybe I was thinking of this! It makes more sense!

STREET DREAMS

A bevvy of Hot Wheels and Superfast for touching up came in last week. Some great muscle designs here.

A while later duly spruced.

Cabinet ready.

Ed's Airfield: The Olive Drab Pyro XF-90

Greetings Woodsy and Moonbase Gang,

This is a follow-up to the silver XF-90 airplane photos I sent a while back. Pyro did this one in a nice Army Olive Drab scheme - a fantasy color as the real aircraft were never painted in this color. 

Also, you'll notice the tab is missing from the top of the fuselage as this one wasn't destined for that fly-around tower toy. Although toy companies liked to produce toys in all colors of the rainbow, this airplane didn't appear to be offered in anything but silver and OD.

From Vegas Airfield

Ed

USA