BRIAN MAY'S STAR FLEET

I'm very pleased with my latest charity shop purchase for the princely sum of £1. Only when I got home I found I’d already got it! Have any other readers bought something forgetting they’d already got it? What was it? Or is it just me!

Will O.

UK

TV21 STAR FLEET AND THE NUCLEAR FERRY

In April 1983 the British comic Look-In ran a story-line in it's Star Fleet strip involving what SWORD fans recognise as a Nuclear Ferry nearly twenty years after its appearance as a Century 21 toy. 

The strip was illustrated by the late great Mike Noble, who was well-known to fans of TV21. 

The entire Star Fleet Look-In strip is available to view online over at the excellent Star Fleet X Bomber webpage created by superfan DJ Dust. I contacted DJ and asked if I could post the April strips depicting the Nuclear Ferry [called a 'Tanker'] who replied as follows:

Hi Woodsy

Thanks for the email, and when I say that, I actually really mean it. I find these days that people just take stuff off web sites and pass it off as their own and if you ask them about it, get incredibly defensive and rude!! I've got no problem at all with you borrowing anything you want from F-Zero-One. Help yourself mate... :)

cheers

DJ Dust

Some of you may remember in January 2012 generous blog readers clubbed together to buy Wotan an original page of Mike Noble artwork from the Star Fleet strip for his 50th Birthday from The Book Palace. Like an episode from the Twilight Zone, Wote blogged about Mike Noble's Star Fleet Christmas 2011, not knowing he would be the owner of the original art a month later! The Book Palace still have original Star Fleet art for sale should you wish to dream!

So, what do you think of Mike Noble's version of the Nuclear Ferry?

Re-posted from 2012

CHARACON SPACE TANK

I keep seeing this space tank around.

This one is a Japanese toy.

By Bandai, the auction site it was on listed it as "Space detective shalban shillinger tank CARICOM RC"

The same tank comes as a basic space toy as well, which I've seen several times on Ebay, but for the life of me I can't find one now!

The basic shape reminds me of the front cab of the Project SWORD Buclear Ferry, especially this illustrated version by Mike Noble in Star Fleet.

STAR FLEET'S NUCLEAR FERRY

In April 1983 the British comic Look-In ran a storyline, in it's Star Fleet strip, involving what SWORD fans would recognise as a Nuclear Ferry, nearly twenty years after appearance as a C21 toy. The strip was illustrated by the brilliant Mike Noble, who is well-known to fans of TV21. The entire Star Fleet Look-In strip is avaialble to view online over at the excellent Star Fleet X Bomber webpage created by superfan DJ Dust. I contacted DJ and asked if I could post the April strips depicting the Nuclear Ferry [called a 'Tanker'] who replied as follows:

 

 

Hi Woodsy

Thanks for the email, and when I say that, I actually really mean it. I find these days that people just take stuff off web sites and pass it off as their own and if you ask them about it, get incredibly defensive and rude!! I've got no problem at all with you borrowing anything you want from F-Zero-One. Help yourself mate... :)

cheers

DJ Dust

Some of you may remember in January this year generous blog readers clubbed together to buy Wotan an original page of Mike Noble artwork from the Star Fleet strip for his 50th Birthday from The Book Palace. Like an episode from the Twilight Zone, Wote blogged about Mike Noble's Star Fleet last Christmas, not knowing he would be the owner of the original art a month later! The Book Palace still have original Star Fleet art for sale should you wish to dream!

So, what do you think of Mike Noble's version of the Nuclear Ferry?