Looey's Second Hand Sheds

On our road trip home from Melbourne, we passed through Daylesford and Castlemaine. BOTH had extensive second hand market sheds one claimed to be the largest in the Southern hemisphere!

Regardless of the veracity of that claim, there was plenty for Moonbasers to look at.

Stand by for Action, Men!

A nice MG pedal car

Breakfast Cereal Premiums still in their baggies!

Ah, a Beetle Game! I remember playing with one of those at school during a rainy day!

A familiar looking headless woman sideshow banner (did I see that at the Royal Easter Show back in the early 70's?)

You wouldn't believe the size of the Mosquitos around here!

Ooer! That's taun taun it now! Where the heck did that come from?

How Chad was my Valley...

No boots? Soldier you are out of uniform!

...Sweet Sixteen souls, at the drums of Johhny Ringo

Nice tin F111's Mint In Box

No peek at the Harrier inside the box, but!

Nice Tug and Bomber

See anything you like?

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ANNUAL AND FRIENDS

The Battlestar Galactica annual, published by Grandreams in 1978.

It contained photo features and original comic strips on the series.

 Below, the Battlestar Galactica story book of the film.

Published by Brown Watson in 1978.

Below, Paperbacks published by Futura in 1978.

An article on sci-fi space craft in Starburst annual, published by Grandreams in 1981.

 

Rrrumblers Assemble!

 My newly re-touched Rrrumblers have reunited with another I already had and a couple of my scratchbiulds.

They're off!

Rrrumblers Return

 At Christmas my good friend Paul Vreede kindly gave me some old toys as a birthday gift 

Among them were these lovely old re-painted childhood Rrrumblers.

With a Saturday afternoon free I thought I'd spruce these old Hot Wheels up a bit. I decided in most cases simply to re-glue some parts, re-touch the colours already used from childhood and re-chrome some of the metalwork.

It was a Rrreally fun to do and next I'll put them with a couple of others I have for their maiden Yorkshire tour later.

In the meantime here are the re-touched Rrrumblers. The third from the left just got cleaned, no painting - it just needs a rider, which I'm sure I have spare somewhere.

Hope you like them.

Have you any toy motorbikes?

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA IN LOOK IN

Who remembers the Battlestar Galactica comic strip starting in Look-In?

It started in issue dated 20th October, 1979, and continued until October, 1980, and was written by the p Angus Allen, and drawn by Martin Asbury.

I'd more or less stopped buying Look-in by then, and, being a Space: 1999 fan I probably only  picked the odd one up if it had a Space: 1999 cover, during the time when Look- In ran their Space:1999 strip.

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Rising from the Scrappers: A Tudor Rose Boat

A while ago in Rufforth I found a mucky toy boat. Ten bob later, the fixer upper came home.

It reminded me a bit of a plastic ship I had at Butlins as a kid, here in my little mitts far right.

A bonus was the maker, the mark, a tiny circle with the words, among others, Tudor Rose! 

Very grubby, missing most of its small bits and bobs and with a few bridge cracks too, I firstly gave the main hull a  good wash ....

I then glued the bridge supports and added a few oddments from my bits drawer. I couldn't find an original picture so I improvised. 

Good fun using my sea legs again, see what you think.

Have you any toy boats or ships?

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA BACKROOM SHOTS

John Dykstra  with the filming prop.