I always loved Bone's Tricorder on the original Star Trek. Shaped like a medical cassette player, it was the little probe I liked the ...

 This old lemon bottle reminded me how I used to do up Johnny Sevens. These empty plastic lemon juices made ideal replacements for the top o...

Progress on my home-made Triang Spacex Moon Base HQ.  I give you ..... The Computer Room Module. Lid to follow and more pods. One small step...

I'm always on the lookout for replacement Action Man equipment! Made in Hong Kong for Hallmark of Kansas City, here's a bag of nifty...

  The Flight of the Navigator ship is on my mind and with Junior coming to Moonbase this week's half term break I need a quick method fo...

 I'm torn about military toys these days but as a kid in the Sixties I was as gung-ho as the next young sapper.  My inner-child is still...

 I've been thinking about cheaper replacements for Major Mat Mason Parts.  Not that I have any Matt Mason anymore but I adored the Major...

Recently I had an incomplete JR21 Thunderbird 2 very kindly donated as a fixer-upper during our isolation. I've never really 'rest...

Its not often I see a full sweeping canopy on an old plastic toy car online. This is a Prefo Ferrari slot car from the former East ...

Shopping at Wilkos over the weekend I had to chuckle at something I saw. Its their ultra-inexpensive - £2 - plastic see-through toiletr...

Disaster struck my lipstick transporter. I thought I'd struck gold with these orange plastic ties. But super-gluing them ro...

 My home made LT10 is taking shape. The blue blister is on and the lime green nose cone but I'm not happy with it. I've cut t...

My scratch LT10 Lunar Transporter model project has begun. I've removed all the silver lettering from the lipstick case. I...

I'm beginning a poor man's SpaceX II LT10 project. Having scoured the cosmetics department of Ebay I've chosen this as the ...

After an enquiry for SWORD antenna spare parts I had a look round for possible DIY replacements. On my Googling I found some interesting ob...

I noticed these Archer spaceman slot-hand repro parts online. The looped parts reminded of old plastic bag loops. they came in ...