Richard Dixon's Zero Hour: Packaging, Settings and Catalogue Shots

Hi Woodsy

Image set number 3 for you .

Image 1 / Hovercraft on model river set .

Image 2 / Trade Catalogue landscape model set showing Mono Rail Set .

Image 3 / Selection of shots I did for the Bluebird Trade Catalogue .

Image 4 / Artwork pack shots I did for trade presentations .

Image 5 / Figure pack shots created for the Bluebird Trade catalogues ..

Image 6 / Army Wolf Pack set and Close Combat Set / Model landscape Desert Base .

Hope your followers like these......

Best Regards

Richard Dixon

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Image set 4 tomorrow!

A Wind to shake the Stars

 The impact of Star Wars on contemporary culture, not to mention the toy industry, can't be overstated. I probably have more Star Wars toys than any other single toy line. Here are just a few of my favourites.

DROIDS CARDED FIGURES ON YOU TUBE

Less well known than the Kenner Star Wars figures,

Have you any Droids action figures?

STAR ADVENTURE PLAY SET

In the early 1990's I bought a cheapo space toy set from a discount store in Wakefield near me. It was called Star Adventure and had small space vehicles and little chunky spacemen like a Playmobile chappie.

I had it years before selling it on Ebay and then I forgot about it. I was pleasantly reminded of my old set by this different one which appeared on the 'Bay last month.

This Star Adventure set came with two space jets, a pair of ray guns and an alien. The star of the set though is the 'robot animal', which was described on its listing as a 'baby At-At', which I thought was quite good.

Clearly the alien is the spaceman's buddy like Star Wars' Han and Chewie. Or maybe they are enemies? Anyway this set never appeared in my local discount stores back then so I thought I'd share it now. Despite pushing the Star Wars angle, the Ebay seller didn't get a sale.

The card art looks interesting but I just can't make it out properly. Anyone else got any of these kids' sets?

Tour de Yorkshire Cycle Race Flies Past Moonbase

Its not just Star Wars Day here at Moonbase. 

Its also the Tour de Yorkshire Day 2!

Tour de Yorkshire is a world-class cycle race and a Yorkshire off-shoot of the Tour de France. 

It passed by Moonbase around 4pm this afternoon, which I filmed and you can see my flick above.

Missus Moonbase and I were out along with neighbours to cheer on the Pelaton and the main rider group.

I'm not a cycling fan but the whole thing brought back great memories of my old Corgi cycling car sets.

Here's some pics I found on Ebay. I'm not sure if I had both but I'll include the two I remember.

Did you have them or maybe you still do?

Have you any other cycling toys?

DAIRYLEA EWOKS

I used to enjoy finding old Star Wars merchandise at car boot sales in the 90's.

One bit of Ewokiness was the Dairylea cheese VHS Ewoks video cassette, which came in a neat card box sleeve.

So for Star Wars Day here's a trip down memory lane for me and maybe you, the promo film for the Dairylea VHS shown courtesy of You Tube.

Do you have a Dairylea video cassette or any other mail-away Star Wars merchandise?

DEAGOSTINI THUNDERBIRD 2 MODEL SPACE BUILD: THE STORY SO FAR

Well, I’m well over three-quarters of the way through my DeAgostini Model Space Thunderbird 2 build now and I have to say it’s been a lot of fun so far.

I’m also enjoying being part of a small, but enthusiastic bunch of fellow builders on social media, who show photos and videos of their individual builds, and share any news from Model Space itself.

Some are also lucky enough to own Takara Thunderbird 2 models  and vehicles which the build takes its inspiration from, and occasionally take photos to compare the two.

I’ve already posted a few photos of some of the vehicles already but here’s a rundown of what’s arrived so far.

The Mole:

Three of the four Master Elevator Cars:

The Monobrake:

Fab 1:

The Transmitter Truck:

The Excavator:

The Thunderizer & The Laser Cutter:

The Firefly:

The two Recovery Vehicles:

Thunderbird 4:

Plus, here’s a short video showing the legs being tested. It’s noisy but it works…

BOBA FETT'S FIRST APPEARANCE

Years ago I heard that there was a brilliant cartoon segment inside the otherwise live-action Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978.

Never officially released and disliked by George Lucas the Holiday Special did, by way of the short cartoon, introduce the world to Boba Fett.

I watched one version of the entire film a couple of years ago on You Tube and to my dismay the animated section was missing.

On a hunch I re-checked this week to see if the cartoon was available and to my delight it was. 

At last I got to see what is a gorgeous ten minutes of Canadian-made Star wars comic-like animation and the famous first appearance of the dubious Fett!

You can too courtesy of Musta Costa Fortune on You Tube. Enjoy and tell me what you think.