Thursday, 22 January 2026

Garden Trek

Hi,

As I am retired, I fulfilled my obligation to visit a garden centre this week. To my surprise, in their post Christmas sale, they had a large picture of a starfield, which actually lit up! It was meant for Christmas Village models but I thought it would be good for dioramas and it was cheap, so I bought it!

Anyway, here is the Galileo flying through it.

Happy gardening,

Kevin

11 comments:

  1. Oh wow, I want one! Any details you can share?

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    1. The backdrop was made for Christmas Village displays, which garden centres sell lots of bits for. There was no makers label on mine so I don't know who makes it. The Galileo is the old AMT kit which I heavily modified to look right.

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  2. It's good to see you are fulfilling your marital obligations in such a rewarding way.

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  3. Paul Adams from New Zealand1/22/2026 4:28 am

    There are so many useful items hidden away in corners far removed from modelling - yet they are exactly what we need. If only we knew they existed. Thank you for this one.

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  4. did you come across the captains log in the garden centre?

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    1. Oddly, it had a Robin and a sprig of holly on it!

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    2. They were actually a Robulan and a Sprigularian Kev.

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  5. With reference to Paul's point about finding useful modelling things in odd places, like garden centres, I designed a Gelf Fighter spacecraft for Red Dwarf (series 6 or 7), which was built around a garden leaf blower, back in the 90s.

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