The crew from Ganymede Station pulling another wrecked spaceship out of the snow. Which is half frozen methane, so ... you gotta watch out.
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The full score in their "Barn Find" condition though I knoweth not the history of the pieces prior to opening the boxes.
What we were upgrading from, an often misunderstood recast of the Marx "Double Gun" ship in goofy but to me enjoyable soft nukeslime green plastic. Molds for the four Marx ships surfaced in Mexico during the 1990s, possibly unmarked clones using a leftover mold made for Marx's Mexican Plastimarx subsidiary.
Colors vary, all bright and happy and the serious collectors frown upon them. I like how they are more or less indestructible and it's easy to change color when painting etc. All you need is the form to trace and these have served me admirably in that role. One can often find them at around $35 shipped for all four, often in a sealed bag. You know where to look.
The real thing, sixty five years of atmosphere settled onto it and missing starboard gun nacelle.
"Blast Off!"'s scant mention of the forms, unless I missed something. That red color is the one to score.
ToySoldierHQ's somewhat more helpful graphic shows all four ship designs. Best answer I've been able to wrangle out of those in the know is that the things were on sale during 1952 and likely remained so through the decade. Marx also entered into arrangements with companies like Kleeware (Britain) and Moldex (Australia) who essentially made them under license for their markets. Plastimarx in Mexico also likely made them during the hard plastic era as well, and I have an unmarked hard plastic A-Wing ship (style B in the graphic above) which may have been produced by any of them.
A quirk of the design -- Tried to get "in flight" pix of the ship using a painted backdrop and this was the best I could manage, as it's only intended to be seen sitting on a surface. Try to get a from below Dutch angle and you end up looking at hollow space.
Reminds me of a B-25 Mitchell, WW2 twin engine attack craft.
The "Heavy Rescue 411" parody idea in a nutshell. My dad is obsessed with those shows and my aim is to parody it with a science fiction twist, just to help me cope with having to sit through them almost every day ... My original intention for this new arrival was as a new wrecked ship for them to have to pull out of the snow. That it was logo marked by Marx had slipped my attention until having it in my hand. Imagine the surprise! And no, this doesn't go into an artwork. No paint shall touch its noble hull by my brush.
Length measures about four inches in all.
Deadly. Perfect for shipping interdiction and tactical strikes.
You would get out of its way, see.
Glorious. There does appear to be a flaw on the fuselage at the base of the right stabilizer. It has the shape of the design and does not go through to the underside.
"A B-25 crossed with the Batplane."
Another flaw visible just at the corner of the right landing pod along the inner wing. It also does not go through the plastic & looks more like a scratch. We note it to be thorough: The ship is a magnificent unlooked for score! Helps set the universe back to rights.
Just to compare. There's an additional post or two about the recasts in the blog history, search via prior posts at right or click the tag.
Here's a detail collectors might find handy: The wheels on this one have little raised ridge details, but all of my recasts have plain smooth wheels. Something to look for when evaluating finds as the wheels are the only parts not integral to the casting.
Gets its own box with bubbles. Will take care of her, and I promise no paint. Just for makin pix ...
... Often involving a helicopter. The more archaic and obsolete looking, the better.
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