Rob C.'s Gouache Sketches Based on My Toyscape Photos - Pt 4 Tri-ang Mobile Moon HQ

Tri-ang's Mobile Moon HQ serves as the basis for this artwork by Rob C. and it is a stunner. - possibly my favorite of the lot! Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

Tri-ang SpaceX Superset 1 No. 1175 - Pt 11 MOON BASE SERIES Mobile HQ Mobile HQ

It's hard to say where the toymakers at Tri-ang got their inspiration from when designing this Mobile HQ, but there was no end of sci-fi art to choose from. I haven't yet found an exact artist's rendering but this image by Gordon C Davies from the cover of Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke, (1957) gives a hint to the design. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

mid-60s Lunar Rover concept by (I believe) NASA

Another example of a vastly down-sized vehicle in relation to the figures. 

Triang SpaceX Mobile H.Q.

The SpaceX Mobile H.Q. is one of my favorites - don't know why, it just is. Maybe it hints at being this way cool roving command post/exploratory vehicle able to carry-out multiple missions. The toy itself, like so many in the SpaceX range is smaller in comparison to the 25mm figures included, a vehicle perhaps two-to-four times this size would be about right when looking at the size of the dome on top of the hull. There is one available, the Project Sword Moon Bus, but it will cost you a pretty penny - if you can find one! I mentioned in yesterday's post that the antenna was the weak point on the MEV2 and so it is with the Mobile H.Q.. At the base of the antenna is a small plastic nub which fits into the hull and that nub was broken on one of my samples, fortunately not the one in the photos. The origins for the Mobile H.Q. can be found here on SpaceX Central and the toy meausres 4" (10.16cm) L x 1" (2.54cm) W x 2" (5.08cm) H to top of radar. Enjoy! Opa Fritz