Playing With My Lido Spaceships, A Temporary 'Diorama' - Pt 3 Final

This brings to an end the Lido spaceship series. Next I'll be covering the various Lido spacemen and alien's, followed by figures from other manufacturers. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Playing With My Lido Spaceships, A Temporary 'Diorama' - Pt 2

 A few more shots from my Lido photo shoot. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Lido Spaceship Train

Gosh, before I forget again, I meant to post this photo at the start of the Lido spaceship series but totally blew it off. Anywho, these Lido spaceships were designed to be hooked together into a train-like toy. You probably noticed the hooks when perusing the photos but it is nice to actually see it assembled as such. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

This really brings to home that these toys were meant for little kids back in the day, and yet here we are some 70 years on and they are still being enjoyed (albeit by slightly older kids 😂 )

Playing With My Lido Space Toys

Like I'm wont to say, I'm a tad bit too old to be getting down on the kitchen floor and playing with my toys - besides, I risk breaking them! So 'playing' takes on a whole new meaning. Usually it boils down to staging set-ups and photographing them, or messing around on the computer with the images I've taken. This one falls into the later category. I had already scanned the artwork from an LP Space Exploring set, and using Photoshop, cleaned it up and added a bit more detail to it. Now it can be used for other such projects. One of the problems I have is creating a .PNG image in Photoshop. That's where I can cut away or 'erase' the background from the main image. Sometimes it works well, other times not. When it does work, then whoopee and I can use that image for projects. These are fun little projects that allow me to flex what little creativity I have come up images I hope people will - Enjoy! Opa Fritz

.PNG image with background 'erased'

The backer card as scanned

A cleaned up, extended version of the card

A couple of different versions of the Lido Troop Transport superimposed on the background

Lido Captain Video Rocket Tank - Red-Yellow HP

Here's the last of my Lido spaceships from the 1950s. I'll have a couple more follow-up posts to this series in the next couple of days. Until then - Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Lido Captain Video Rocket Tank - Blue-Red HP

The last of the four different types of Lido spaceships that I have is the Rocket Tank. The fifth Lido spaceship is something I never got around to buying.

The fifth spaceship is pictured in the upper right corner. It's about twice as long as the others and carried small space vehicles on it like a ferry.

Courtesy Toy Soldier HQ

This Rocket Tank measures 3.25" (8.25cm) L x 1.25" (3.17cm) W x 2.25" (5.71cm) H. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Courtesy Toy Soldier HQ

Lido Captain Video Troop Transport Knock-off - Green-Blue-Red SP

Here's another soft-plastic knock-off made from pieces I'd acquired over the years. This is the last of the Lido Troop Transports I have, so we'll be moving on to the Rocket Tank next. Enjoy! Opa Fritz