Guards! My Moonbase Star Maidens Home-Made Doll and Backing Card completed

My Star Maidens project is complete.

At the start of November I had a crack at making my version of this rare Guard doll from the Star Maidens range.

Using a Sindy clone, a small American football helmet* and a pair of cheap Supergirl boots I got on Ebay, here's what I came up with, which I blogged at the time.

Next up was to recreate the backing card and blister.

Our friend Arto over in Helsinki Base kindly sent a fabulous scan of his own original card and Wotan Bill was able to tidy it up - adding the word Guard - and sent a lovely copy over to me.

Here it is glued to some card. Its still drying!

 

Made to measure, my doll sat snug on her new backing.

Next up was the blister. This proved much harder than I thought. Scouring the shelves of cheapo toy aisles, toiletries shelves and food aisles in shops I searched for a 12 inch blister. Nada!

The best I could come up with was this bauble box made of two sides glued together. The seam runs along the left side down the shoulder and leg line. Its not perfect at all - I'll keep looking for a cheap doll box in a discounter - but as a temporary measure it'll do.

So here's my take on the Star Maidens Moonbase Guard doll on its backing card.

Hope you approve.

From the front 

and side

I'd like to thank Arto and Wotan Bill for all their kind help with this fun project.

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* Years ago I blogged the exact American Football helmet online which the original toy company used. One day I'll get one of these, which is a proper colour match for the original. 

Does anyone recognise the team badge?