It's been a while since I fed the
Airfix habit, then this turned-up! How cool is this, too cool for Space-school, that's how!
The instructions seem to refer to double-point targets - missing from the board, so the blurb may have been copied verbatim from another game in [what would then begin to look like] the range; the 'W' suffix to the pattern number suggesting a similar situation - more than one in a 'range'?
A bit of reflection I'm afraid, but that's the downside of photographing stuff at a show! Very colourful and unusual in that it has an open front, most sets of this age/type (I'm reminded of our own childhood
Marx Robin Hood set) were fully enclosed, with a spring-loaded firing stick and marbles which couldn't get lost.
This has a spring-plate firing mechanism (like the
S-Boot we looked at ages ago), so the finger needs to enter the 'playing area'! There seems to be an incentive to cheat built into this set, shocking!
The bag of bits seems to have been mucked-about with, containing both composition and glass marbles in several sizes, I suspect the three white glass 'chinas' are the originals, with the composition balls added by the owner.
However; you can also see the clip-in stands which have to be removed to get the board back in its box, so something that might reasonably have been expected to have been lost (or broken) years ago.
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