I'LL BE POLISHING MY TOY ROLLS ROYCE

Parked beside my Project SWORD Scout 1 or Billy Blastoff Scuba car you would have found a prestige toy car back in the Sixties. I loved prestige cars like Rolls Royce, Daimler, Bentley, Mercedes and the American Lincoln and Cadillac.

It didn't really matter whether they were plastic or die-cast, large or small. My garage accepted them all! Two of my favourites were:

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The simply beautiful Dinky Cadillac Eldorado and Rolls Royce Silver Shadow.

Did you have any toy prestige cars? Or do you have a real one perhaps?

ROB T'S TOY CAVE CAT

Hi Paul..in response to your [Scoop's] Cat Nip Post..heres our cat Zoe in the toy cave....attempting to help me put together an Addams Family Jigsaw!..Rob T

Watch out Zoe, Frankenstein will have you!

SWORD HEADQUARTERS

I've plans to create a new SWORD base diorama with the intention to take some new pictures of my SWORD fleet in a dedicated backdrop and thought one or two of you might like to see a few teaser photos of my SWORD control tower headquarters which is nearly complete.

 

Obviously, its loosely based on the tower that features in the annual and will eventually join my Booster Rocket Launch pad model in the diorama.

SNOW TRAIN ORIGIN: THE LE TOURNEAU LCC 1?

In 1966 the greatly talented Eric Eden  gave us our first look at the Snow Train in the TV21 Summer Extra. This mega craft went on to feature in both the Project SWORD Annual and its own Make a Model book in 1968. Where, if anywhere, did Eric get inspiration for his amazing vehicle?

How about this readers? In 1954 the Texan heavy vehicle company Le Tourneau built the Snow Train or LCC 1 for the US Army. There are many variations of it and here are a few pictures I've seen on the web. What do you think?

TV21 PROJECT SWORD STORY: THE SNEAK

April 13th 1968

CATS' STILL NIPPING

It's Saturday morning in Scoopville, and Oscar the cat is still busy playing with plastic toys, while Felix is sleeping off last nights visit to the pub!

NASA MORL AKA SPACEX ATS

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Scratchbuilt Cybergun Prop from Doctor Who's The Five Doctors by Kevin D

Hi,

Just finished refurbishing an old model of mine, the Cybermen's gun from 'The Five Doctors'. I've improved the detail on my old model and added better lighting.

take care,

Kevin


Note from Woodsy: You can see the original Martin Bower prop about three - quarters of the way down this page.