You may recall we looked at this beast before (ten years ago, where does it go . . . WHERE?), a contribution from an anonymous follower of the Blog, at the time he had some space-battle damage to one of them but has since sourced a whole one, so sent a follow-up here to Small Scale World.
Not much to add to these as we have looked at them before, and I was going to save the shots for a 'pulp' season at some point, but thought I'd try to clear some of the contributed stuff now, and so when I do return to dime-store space, hopefully use all the images 'in the bank' in better context?
Largest of the single-moulding (plus wheels) vessels, the Atomic Space Ship was a convoluted pile of three aerodynamic buses, piled on two V2 rockets, given a subway car front and four huge afterburners at the rear! Sort of what I said last time but possibly more prosaic . . . time's tighter this time!
Like most of the contemporary space ships it was carried by more than one company (Pyro too?) and while these are both Tudor Rose, even these two are not quite the same, the silver one having a thicker chin-line or skirting below the forward cab and thinner window-bars on the three upper sections, which - finding these differences - is half the fun of collecting!
Cheers Anon' - you know who you are!
7 comments:
For some reason your spaceships remind me of Flash Gordan.
They're not mine Jan - I wish! I think they do hanker after that period, Flash Gordan, Buck Rogers, Captain's Future and Video, Winco Condar, Zip O'Daly, Swift Morgan . . . 1950's polymer nostalgia for 1930's 'Pulp' fiction!
H
I hope its reason for the lack of posts is the good weather.
No Jah, I've said before; I'm busy sorting my late mother's estate and getting my stuff back into storage while i find somewhere permanent to live!
H
Well spotted those differences, Hugh. And indeed, the grey ones have number "1" embossed underneath, whereas the blue ones have "2", suggesting two different moulding machines used.
Or even the two tools clamped in a larger bolster for a single, one-shot cycle/turnover?
H
Could well be, but still two separate production lines I'd say, given the fixed colour/number combinations.
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