Bug!

 Been playing on the 'puter again!

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Risky Flight (Arden Toys Argentina Avion Lazer)

When I decided to post my cobbled together 'art' as a new series for the blog, the risk was that longtime readers would recognize the photos from previous posts. If that's the case, sorry for the repetition. Still, it's nice to be able to feature these again, even if they are repeats. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Arden Toys Avion Lazer - Argentina PT 2

Back on Sep 13 2013 we featured this nifty tin-litho/plastic hybrid space ship from Arden Toys of Argentina. Today I started playing with my newest toy, Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 and messed with image extraction tools as well as some layering and came up with a couple of neat graphics using the Arden spaceship and some of Bettina's photographs.

 The landscape is a photo of the Sheep Mountains to the north of us that Bettina took and she also captured an awesome sunset cloud display. Combining these with a couple of flame graphics and the Arden spaceship and voilà, Space Patrol Over a Distant Planet. Enjoy!

This photo has some additional effects thrown in for good measure

Arden Toys of Argentina Avion Laser Spaceship

Today we have a really interesting spaceship from Argentina! It's from Arden and is the Avion Laser Spaceship with friction motor and missile firing action. This is definitely a big break from what I'm used to blogging - classic sci-fi ships of the '30 -'50s - and has a very '70s-'80s look to it with all those angular facets, swept back wings, and low profile fuselage. It's a hybrid of tin-litho and plastic with nice detailing all along the fuselage. The wingtips have integral missile launching pods into which a small red soft plastic missile is inserted and twisted so as to let the protruding nub lock it in place. A simple twist of the nub and the spring loaded missile flies on to its target. The ship measures 6 1/2" (16.5cm) L x 7" (17.8cm) wingspan x 2" (5.1cm) H. The ship comes on a blister card and as the plastic blister was in rough shape I carefully pried open the staples and removed the blister and the ship. The corrugated cardboard backing card has some really nice artwork and so I decided to use Photoshop to clean up the creases, scratches, staple holes, etc. and present it here. I also had a little fun putting the spaceship to use in flying a mission. Enjoy!

The original art cleaned up in Photoshop

The same except that the bottom has been cropped

Unfortunately the original image is so large (50.5MB) that I couldn't upload it so this is a compressed file. The instructions and company label have been Photoshopped out to extend the original artwork downward. I hope I've been able to convey the spirit of the original artwork in a respectful way.