Top of The Year 2010

HEY SWORDIES! THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT, CONTRIBUTIONS, CAPTIONS, JOKES AND GENERAL SWORDINESS DURING 2010!

You're all invited to the Moonbase New Year Cyber-party!

[if I've missed anyone in the piccy, apologies, I ran out of piccy people!]

So, what's your midnight tipple going to be?

KEEP ON SWORDIN'

WOODSY

SWORD Patrol 2

Always on the lookout for a decent sea-worthy SWORD boat, my friend Leo [monte-firu on Ebay] provided me with these pics of an Argentinian gunboat by Revirplas you can see above [top three pics]. It's got everything: cool sleek styling, yellow deck, two Apollo Moon Exploring-like missiles, an eccentric dome and an concave oblong radar rather like that SCOUT 1 [bottom]. The box art is pretty cool as well with what on first glance appears to be a Dyna Soar in the sky [top pic], but on close inspection it isn't I don't think [in close-up third pic down]. Nonetheless spacey cool!

Silver Thingies

With the Christmas cake mostly eaten and New Year round the corner, I'm enjoying a brief spell of normality and browsing Ebay. Looking at a 2001 Space Glider [top pic] currently on offer, it reminded me of some other space toys. I've searched the blog for them and featured them all together above: Spacex Rescue Craft [middle pic] and a group shot of various spacecraft including Scout 1 [bottom]. I think it was the silver exhausts of the 2001 Glider and the Spacex Rescue Craft [small painted picture], which I found similar but seeing them now they're aren't really!

Pictures: Ebay and Wotan

New Art by Andy B

TF1 by Andy B

Probe Force Tree

Zooming Round the Christmas Tree in Probe Force 3!

inspired by the conifer-like background of the Tarheel Probe Force 3 box art

[flat template courtesy of Canadian reader Graeme Walker]

Gift Tags for Toad and Ed

For EvilEd - a film I've never seen but looks great

For Toad - pond warrior princess

[model: starship modeller 2005]

Mist -O- Matic Merry Christmas Card

One year in the mid- Sixties the Christmas Cards I gave to my Mum and Dad and Sibs were made easy by one of my fave toys that year: Mist-O-Matic, a sort of paint spray tray that created a mist of colour, which covered templates and left shapes on pieces of card. My top Xmas card design was the Santa head above, which I would recognise anywhere. A 'spin-off' of the better known Spiro-Matic, Mist-O-Matic is easilly in my top ten [non-space] toy list. Wotan and I waxed lyrical about this and other paint toys earlier on the blog. What we have still never managed to find is a picture of another Sixties classic paint toy, Paint Witch, which were a sort of witch hat topped thick pens. They were so cool. Anyone got a picture?

Xmas Bank Holiday Tuesday Selection Box

Super Modeller David Sisson's early 1980's cine-8 film full of great model space vehicles - watch all the parts on You Tube

Short YTube promo film of Mike Trim's 2006 art book 'The Future Was Fab', which I was lucky enough to find under the tree this year!

Original Sixties Cinema trailer for Thunderbirds Are Go movie courtesy of YT

Original Japanese Imai Zero X model kit TV ad courtesy of Mickey Bister [YT]

Lemme know if there's any other You Tube clips you think I should post up!