Also in the Captain Space box, but actually from the Luna sets, was a trio of the tracked exploration vehicles, which one needs to colonise a dusty ball of pumice and "orange dirt!" One or two of my existing white ones have crept into other posts over the years, but here's a slightly grubby pastel-blue set!
The fuel/water bladders, treated as wheels, something various militaries have experimented with since before I was born, but which don't ever seem to have caught-on in general use, or commercially? The actual tractor for them (like
MPC's, a rather clumsy-looking, bulky affair) is missing from the box, and only the Dozer 'tank' seems to have another, suitable towing hook.
Bladder parked-up and dozer engaged, dome-space is carved out of the crater-floor!
Is this a simplified version of an old Marx battery-operated floor-toy?
After a quick clean, which the other two also got, before I shot them!
This is the crane, or tow-truck/wreaker, and we can see where
Giant (and to a lesser extent/greater stretch,
Lik Be) got their little centrally-placed domed cabs from, for their own space tanks. But
Marx has the better-sculpted running-gear, of the three fleets!
The Space Tank'er, a pun so good it's worth using twice! Embossed into the tank-ends, on both sides, are the same Florine, Hyrdrogen, Oxygen scripts of the stickers surviving on one set of my fuel-tank silos, I have a mind to get a few more of these, old or reissues, and 'do' something with them, paint or conversion wise?
All shot with the Marx exploding mountain in the background.
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