This is our third custom toy in this series, Adam Adamant's Sword Stick.
Based on the 1966 UK TV show Adam Adamant Lives, about a Victorian gent transported to the Sixties, this sword stick was always by Adam's side.
Our custom stick comes complete with scabbard, sword, ammo baggy, AA signet ring and backing card.
Of our three home-made versions so far, this one has proven the most difficult, both the sword and the card, simply because of the unusual shaped handle and 3D packaging.
The white handle was courtesy of a remodelled cosplay shepherd's crook: the ring I made from an old toy and some custom letters: the scabbard was a thinned shepherd's crook too and the blade came from the Rubberplantation on eBay.
As always, Bills marvellous backing card proves to be the star of the show and emulating Lone Star's original it has a cut-out 3D section at the bottom, where the scabbard is held.
During this project the scabbard took a battering. I sat on it by mistake and then removed all the black paint I painted on whilst inserting into the backing card holes, which I'd cut too small!
Still, overall it gives the impression of the original and I was pleased with my ring and the curved handle and Bill's backing card especially. Happy Victoriana!
.Here it is off the card
For fun, here's the original, rare toy as released in the sixties.
Top and card courtesy of the always-helpful John Bass of Murdersville, our reference material.
And two Facebook screenshots (I'm not a subscriber) showing the whole thing.
Interestingly here you can see what is presumably the actual toy ring, which is black and looks nothing like the image on the card, upon which I based my DIY version! I imagine that ring is one scarce thing! Has anyone got one?
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And here the sword stick out of the card.
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Hope you like what we're doing so far and this third sword too.
Next up at MoonBase International toys, things get rarer still, with the Sir Francis Drake sword and matchlock. No known examples appear to exist, at least not online!
Till then.
Wow. Another great project. It certainly looks the part. Actually Adam Adamant was not transported to the 1960s. He was frozen in a block of ice by the villain, and uncovered when a building was being demolished decades later. But he soon settled in to the 1960s, battling a host of evil-doers.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul. I've never seen the show. It's a bit like The Captain America origin, where he's put on ice for 70 years! It's a very flimsy toy sword alas, not many will have survived.
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