Just in at Honest Bob's: Unlooked for "Barn Find" type scores of rare vintage 1950s spacecraft which had waited decades to be re-discovered and shipped our way. All but one are damaged and I could not be more delighted with the results. Here's a quick look, with video embeds of the unboxing sessions each running about five minutes. Lots of laughs.
Nobly damaged Marx Toys "Double Gun" spaceship, early 1950s. Missing gun nacelle on the port side, which to me is just battle damaged to be exploited in photo based art visions. A "restoration" idea might be to do a resin mold casting of the intact weapon, something I learned in Plastics Workshop at the venerable Studio Research program at Syracuse. Will have the thing for the rest of my life so, plenty of time to read up & effort the project. Can do.
Click here to open video in a new window for fullscreen viewing options.
Was delighted to have a parody accident cleanup scene present itself. Just need a few figures in more or less the same scale. Some kind of painted backdrop and terrain sculpted from Golden's acrylics, and a helicopter if there's an excuse to roll one out. Bingo.
More on the Marx ship at the Space Garage here spacetrucks.blogspot.com/2023/06/barn-find-marx-toys-double-gun-1950s.html
My dad is addicted to these shows. I hear that guy's voice booming through the house at least once a day. I used to hate them and now pay attention for ideas to work with. One of which involves choppering in experts from the History Channel.
STUNNED WORK CREWS TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF THE CHAOS was an actual spoken narration which invaded my peace of mind from the other room. At some point there should be enough of the little clips to assemble them into an entire episode.
The mighty Gilmark Toys X-41 rocket car, in admirable condition for a toy more or less designed to be broken and replaced.
Click here to open video in a new window for fullscreen playback options. Sheer excitement.
"Fill 'er right up."
More views at the Space Garage here spacetrucks.blogspot.com/2023/06/barn-find-gilmark-toys-x-41-hard.html Still learning about the line, will do followups etc
And the much sought-after Gilmark X-42 with rolling cockpit canopy, this one complete. You would step out of the way of that rocket blast, see.
More here, though its mostly just pix as my familiarity with Gilmark is still at "well-meaning n00b" stage spacetrucks.blogspot.com/2023/06/gilmark-toys-x-42-rocket-cars-from-barn.html
Refit evaluation and cleanup at the Ganymede Station's drydock facility, where there's always plenty of laughs as things go wrong.
Safety Demonstration Gone Awry
My astronauts are always in trouble, one mishap after the next. Will have fun sorting out what happened to him after getting sucked in .... ZZZZZZPPP!
