Tuesday 19 March 2024
More Fantasy Box Art
Haulin' Horses!
Seeing this scrapper Super Seven I had an idea.
Could I make the Revvers Haulin' Horses redline by Hot Wheels?
Here's the real thing as seen on Ebay.
Monday 18 March 2024
CORGI U.S.S, ENTERPRISE NCC-1701
A few photos of the recently released pre-order Corgi U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701.
It’s a well detailed model, and comes with a display stand in the shape of the Star Fleet Delta Emblem.
It’s all packed into a deluxe box with a brief summary about the history of the Enterprise and each of it’s three different Captains on the inside of the lid.
Corgi have also released an Enterprise D die-cast model, and have future plans to release more ships from the worlds of Star Trek.
Stop Press: Kevin D commented he once owned a Corgi original 40th Anniversary version. This was pretty much the same as the reissue apart from a different display stand and packaging.
Intrigued by this I found a few photos of one on-line. Credit to the original photographer.
A MORNING FOR THE CURIOUS
Last week the Missus and me went on a road trip to Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk and parts of it were great for the ghost story buff like me.
In Oxburgh Hall the ancient skyline reminded me completely of the opening images of the Belasco pile in 1973's shocker The Legend of Hell House.
Driving on we passed a name familiar to all fans of HP Lovecraft, Dunwich, on the Suffolk Coast. In The Dunwich Horror, Dunwich is a fictitious name but I wonder if he knew about the Suffolk village?
The pinnacle of our trip was a morning tour to Aldburgh, a gorgeous seaside town on the Suffolk coast and the setting of M.R. James's well-known ghost story, A Warning to the Curious, in which James calls the town Seaburgh.
James published it in 1925. It took till 1972 to appear on the small screen, as part of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas cycle. As the TV play wasn't filmed in Aldburgh I stuck to the original story for our walkabout.
In it amateur archeologist Paxton desperately searches for three mythical East Anglian crowns lost in the mists of time somewhere in the dunes of 'Seaburgh' (aka Aldburgh). He visits St. Peter and Paul's Church graveyard, as we did, although the Agar family, fictitious guardians of the crowns, are not buried there, as they are in the story.
Sunday 17 March 2024
Will Power: The Finished Restorations
JR21 THUNDERBIRDS 3D PAINTING SET
A few photos of the JR 21 Thunderbirds 3D Painting set which I believe first appeared around 1966. Obviously, a variation of the painting – by numbers sets, which I seem to remember were quite popular at the time.
It’s notable as using artwork by the late, great Ron Turner, the artist behind the 1950’s Rick Random space detective stories and later the artist who took over The Daleks strip in TV21. His work also appeared in many Century 21 annuals and specials.
Each set would contain one of four different designs; Virgil and Tin-Tin foil the Hood, Thunderbird 1 blasts off, Thunderbird 4 to the rescue, and finally, Lady Penelope scores a hit.
It’s surprising that a lot of these sets seemed to have survived more or less intact over the years; old shop stock perhaps, or just a bit of a chore with the equipment supplied? The set came with a less than useless paint brush, along with 10 small pots of poster colours, which, looking at them would probably run out before you’d finished! Creativity could run wild, but I suspect the end result would more than likely find itself in the bin!
The gimmick was the 3D effect. The set featured three cards with detailed line illustrations, and once painted could be suitably cut out and fixed in front of one another creating a three-dimensional effect.
Finally, the box doubled as a picture frame.
As a youngster, during the sixties heyday of ‘Thunderbirds mania’ I think it’s fair to say I preferred the JR21 toys of the actual Thunderbird craft. However, my eyes would occasionally be drawn to other items of colourful Thunderbirds merchandise, as is this case in point.
I don’t think I would have specifically asked for it, but I’d imagine the Thunderbirds 3D Painting set would have probably been bought for me by an aunt or uncle as a birthday or Christmas present.
Adverts for it appeared in comics at the time. This one appeared in Lady Penelope comic during the latter part of 1966, and TV21 offered it as a competition prize in early1967.
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