Looey's Tiger

I  thought these pages from the 1969 Tiger Annual  bought at The Chapel Street Bazaar would interest you Moonbasers.

Did you have it? 

BOLDLY GO!

I must admit I have little interest in the small Hotwheels toys, I much prefer Johnny Lightning,  or the older Matchbox toys, as they both provoke plenty of nostalgic thoughts. 

Even though this Hotwheels example below uses a subject I enjoy,  I think it looks awful and gimmicky. It reminds me of those 'bobble-head' toys that some people are obsessed with collecting.

Each to his own, I suppose. 

Kevin's Star Cops Box

Another obscure scratchbuild. 

 This is my replica of Box, the personal computer of the lead character in the 1987 BBC series Star Cops.

Kevin

UK

OZZY R.I.P.

Not toys related I know but it was such a massive part of my youth and heavy metal has lost its greatest co-founder today. 

Ozzy has sadly passed away aged 76.

The master of metal made it for one last farewell Sabbath gig last month in his home city of Birmingham.

The pearly gates will damn well fly off thier hinges when Ozzy rocks up.

Deepest Condolences to the Osborne family, the kids, Ozzy's friends and all my fellow heavy metal fans.

🤘

Paul V's SpaceX Junkyard Ten Years On

Ten years ago my friend Paul Vreede found some rather sorry looking SpaceX custom wrecks.

You can re-read the full story here, of how Paul found them and what glories emerged from the salvage!

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2015/05/back-on-track-by-paul-vreede.html

In summary, pictures tell the story really well too.

Before ....

And after! 

The restored Apollo Tracker!

And a custom 'Surveyor' Project SWORD Moon Crawler ( blogged recently, which Paul kindly gave to me).

I'm sure you'll agree Paul did a sterling job fixing up those original junkers. 

Paul still has a few Crawler parts spare if anyone would like to have a go at making one. Just email me.

Ed's New Moonscape Diorama Project

Woodsy,

I started this new diorama base project back in May and this is as far as I've gotten.

Except for the cheap framing, I already had the other materials on hand and decided they needed to be put to use. It's 48" x 38.5" and consists of two sheets of Masonite, glued and tacked onto a frame of fake wood (don't know what they call it but it's a plastic-like material), over which 1" sheets of Styrofoam are glued.

The crater rim is sheets of 1" Styrofoam cut and glued to the board. To finish this, I'll need to carve the foam to its final shape, cover everything with plaster (or similar), and then paint.

Here's the kicker: I can't do all that carving, plastering, and painting in the house, so it'll need to be done outside but it's gotten warm out there (we're looking at 112°F/44°C out on the patio). Plus, I have other things going on in my life.

Hopefully I can re-engage this project this coming Autumn.

The first two photos show the work in progress. The third photo was taken a few days ago after pulling out some of my SpaceX Moonbase HQ's to visualize what a set-up would look like.

See what you think.

From Vegas MoonBase

Ed

The Shuttle Launcher: What an Adventure (2000)!

 I've had a few Adventure 2000 die-casts over the years. I've done a few up for Moonbase Junior too.

One I've never had is this fab Shuttle Launcher.

In fact I've never had any blue versions of the range. 

It's a superb design with its red spaceplane and white satellite. 

Looking it up online, here's a few pics I gleaned. Is it a toy you had or like?

Like the green versions, the whole blue range has a passing resemblance to the blue SHADO2, do you agree?;

Custom SpaceX Moonbase Box and Board

Another old gem from Worthpoint, a custom made box and board for SpaceX no less!

What do you think?

The description read

 "Includes a professional custom mars landscape and custom box. What you see is what you get. Very unique. Very large set...will be shipped in 2 boxes. The Mars Battle board landscape is large enough for 54mm too. BattleBoard made by Jim Clouse, terrain artist."