I'm guessing from the large'ish, clip-on
canopy that this was a candy-container, or more-likely - from the size of the
compartment - a single-pastille bubble-gum container? Scaled to a rough 20/25mm
figure wise and manufactured in the style of earlier dime-store toys from Pyro, Kleeware and their ilk, it's a space-ship/vessel of sorts and shot
in brittle styrene with additional metal axles / ethylene wheels.
The little glued-on, stand-off frame that
holds the wheels clear of the body looks to be a generic moulding that would
also fit a tank, armoured-car or civil vehicle, so there may have been a assortment
of these?
Is it browny-red or heliotrope purple? This
is really nice but I have no recollection of buying it, maybe at one the NEC
Birmingham/BP-shows? Definitely a 'space-age' or concept car of the 1950's and
similar to other space cars including the Kilgore
one we saw again the other day.
I don't know if it was issued under the Wannatoys branding, but this seems to be
a Dillon Beck original, marked Dillon Beck USA on the interior and
having a DB number-plate, or more
accurately 'licence-plate'! There used to be a lovely azure-blue 'Futurecar' somewhere
on the Internet, but I can't find it now, also with the DB 'quality' (if you believe Nabisco!) triangle and the same red canopy, it was a bit smarter than mine
and had no whitening glue-marks!
I nearly forgot this was sitting in Picasa
. . . so T is for Three! This one is a Wannatoys branded one and we've seen it before in two colours, but
I shot this on Adrian's stall ages ago and it's been waiting for a dime-store
space post!
Sizer; the car is closer to 28mm/1:48th I fear,
but the ship can be a single-seat 1:72nd, or snug, two-man 1:76th! In a galaxy far, far away, long, long ago, they had A-wings, B-wings and X-wings . . . among other wing types, I think this latest addition to my space-fleet must be a sandbag-wing!
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