BURNHAM VAN SERVICE: SWIFTER REMOVALS

After seeing Kevbin's cool Swift Removals van yesterday I had to look twice when I saw this toy.

The Burnham Van Service Hauler and Trailer.

These pics are from an old Hakes auction.

I suppose its the boxy front cab and the red and white trailer that remind me of the Swift van.

It also makes me think of Johnny Express too.

Have you a Burnham Van or a Johnny Express truck?

CAR BOOT BOOTY

We've been to a few boot sales of late me and the Missus.

She likes to buy stuff for Moonbase Junior. I tend to buy more crap.

But, I like crap, especially vintage toys!

This was a new one on me, Gussie! 

Its a really neat carded plastic aquarium frogman with his own stand. Classic!

These mystery figs were in a sack of old figures I got.

Not sure about the green man but my Missus reckons the other fella has fallen out of a Black Forest barometer, you know, one of those little wooden weather shacks.

No idea who these old sea dogs are. Those two ladies look tied-up but they're actually hiding pirate pistols behind their backs!

A few knockoff Action Man bits is always fun. Unsure about the other bits. You? [excuse the zipper!]

These have to be the ugliest toy figures I've ever seen. From 1982, I've no idea what they are.

and finally a nice Chinese tinplate repro of a spaceship.

Anyone know the name?

CAPTION NEEDED!

This snap I took of my Grandson's little cake decorations made me smile.

Its needs a caption.

C'mon!

Imai Captain Scarlet Secret Trailer by Kev D

Hi,

Just made this neat little Imai kit of the Captain Scarlet Secret Trailer.

S.I.G.

Kevin D

Woodsy adds: there are some vague but interesting notes about the prop used on the SuperM site. Scroll to the last two vehicles. http://lester.demon.nl/superm/technology/sfx/scarlet/models2.html

SCRATCHBUILD SUNDAY: MY HOME-MADE SPACEX ATS TOYS

I finished making my scratch SpaceX ATS toys today.

Great fun to make: one orange, one black.

The orange one is more plasticy and toyey. The black one is more like the original Tri-ang toy.

The left one is made from a toy telescope from a comic, the right one is part of a bike pump. Both have other bits stuck on too.

I couldn't create the telescopic sight effect of the original toy so I attempted other additions.

This one has a glass mirror top and an original SpaceX wheel hub as its base [not shown]

This one has an in-built torch ....

and an interchangeable glass mirror top too.

The hardest parts by far were the two silver solar panels, which I made from a dolls house fireguard plus some other parts. Not great but they'll do.

Now completed they were installed into the scratch fleet by Moonbase crew.

and eventually they made it into the cabinet!

Hope you like them.

Dinky Toys TV Shows Space and Specials Blog: Early August Item: Joe 90: Joe’s Car by Dinky

Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Dinky Toys: TV Shows, Space and Specials 102 Joe's Car by KO 8th August 2019 Two interesting new variants for the site for the 102 Joe's Car from the Joe 90 TV series. The first is a gunmetal base version, possibly an export version or even a factory error, whatever the origin, its certainly a strange colour combination. The second newly identified variant is the omission of the on/off switch labelling, next to the double headed arrow and possibly a tooling issue. A short lived change as the very first versions had the text labelling as did later and the last versions of the 102. KO | August 8, 2019 at 11:36 am | Categories: Dinky Toys | URL: https://wp.me/p5HSNg-14M Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Dinky Toys: TV Shows, Space and Specials. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://dinkytvspace.com/2019/08/08/102-joes-car/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

CINEMA AL FRESCO

I recently watched a movie on DVD called Cinema Paradiso.

It was the story of an old and small Italian cinema, a young boy who loved film and the old cinema projectionist. A beautiful film all round and one which captured the sad fall of small cinemas everywhere I imagine.

One of the many memorable scenes was where the projectionist projected the film onto the side of a large white building. It looked superb!

I know people have projected films onto white sheets in gardens - I even have a vague memory of seeing King Kong on cine-film like this as a kid - but I haven't seen a film projected onto a wall.

I've been thinking which flick would do justice to a huge white wall and I reckon I know: Thunderbirds Are Go!

I think Zero-X would look great zooming round on a huge scale outdoors. If only I had a projector and a huge white wall!

Have you done anything like this readers? Which films would you watch on a wall or a sheet?

PS. there is a reference here online about old reel to reel Thunderbirds of such a size that they could be projected onto a wall!

https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/The_History_of_Thunderbirds_on_Audio_%26_Visual

EL CAPITAN ESCARLATA, EL CAPITAN MARTE AND SUPERCAR

Argentinian comics [seen on Todocollecion auctions]:

Captain Scarlet

Fireball XL5

Supercar