My Imperial Leather Mars Hangar is finished.
The Martian fleet is greased and ready.
Here's snaps of the day shift.
Hope you like them.
Next stop: The Martian Night
My Imperial Leather Mars Hangar is finished.
The Martian fleet is greased and ready.
Here's snaps of the day shift.
Hope you like them.
Next stop: The Martian Night
I'm making another home-made base.
A Mars Hangar.
Basic materials: 4 Imperial Leather hand-wash bottles. What a shape! Squared off like the Brooke Bond card Base.
Old space ride cars are a hoot and I enjoy finding them online.
Here's a few I've found this week.
What do you think?
If you have any rides you want to see on Moonbase then email me [its at the bottom of the blog].
I got this ritzy bundle of Superfast and Lesneys in Cas [aka Castleford] with a few thrown in from the Missus too.
The Dinky SPV is a bigger ongoing project - finishing soon as long as the Mysterons leave the postman alone! Some more on this later.
The cars are done though. This time those few finished with my metallic pens resulted in some streaking. They'll do for the cabinet though! See what you think.
I picked up a beaten bargain Superfast Draguar at the Sunday sale. 60 pence. The dome was cracked open and the chroming faded. The paintwork wasn't too bad though.
I adored the Matchbox Draguar as a kid aged 9. It was so damn cool with that blister and all.
Rummaging in my bits box I found a clear Cornetto topper, which could well make a decent dome.
The cracked original is on the left.
Years ago a single hit on Google was called a Googlewack. The name stuck with me and now and then I find one.
Here's another; contained within this superb Fab1 article on the ever-informative Dinky Toys TV and Space site is mention of a rare FAB1 custom model car made in 1982.
https://dinkytvspace.com/100-lady-penelopes-fab-1/
Its about two thirds down in the rarities and oddities section talking about two gold hand-made FAB1's. One is shown and another non-gold normal model is also shown on the company box. It looks amazing and a bit like a JR21 toy FAB1 but more detailed.
Anyways I wont say the name of the company, S, or the model maker, DM* and FAB1 in the same sentence as that would explode the Googlewack!
* I have read separately that DM was previously the Marketing Director at Dinky Meccano before setting up his own model company, S.