PLEASE MISTER, HAVE YOU ANY IMPKO HORROR DECALS?

I loved staring at Impko horror water decals as a kid. I remember seeing them in the back of Creepy and Eerie monster magazines. I imagine I tried to get some from Heatleys, my local bike shop, which carried lots of stickers and decals but I doubt Impko was available in the UK. Anyone know?

Damn they are iconic designs though! Do you remember them?

DOCTOR DECAL

Hi Woodsy

I came across a video on You Tube explaining how to save old waterslide decals.

Often, if you put old decals into water they just break up. The video shows how to prevent this by applying a coat of Krylon Crystal Clear Acrylic spray varnish. 

First a light coat, allow to dry, then a heavier coat. This will keep the decal from fragmenting. The examples shown are from the 1960s, and are being applied to a model car. Other brands of varnish should also work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzq9spb-QNk

Paul Adams

New Zealand

WATCH IT!

I love a good watch. 

This is a Vianni Halter Deep Space Tourbillon 10 Quill and Pad.

Wow!

Also cool is this Spacex-inspired wristwatch.

Having said that this plastic Shuttle watch is pretty darn smart as well!

Have you a space watch readers?

Did you have one as a kid?

WE'VE SEEN IT AT THE MOVIES

Your mention of Cliff Richard in August had me searching for my 'Summer Holiday' bus. Couldn't find it, looked on line and found there's a second version!

Terranova47

USA

Woodsy asks: Does anyone collect Cliff Richard stuff?

THE MEDICINE CUPBOARD OVER THE SINK

Our medicine cupboard was full of strange potions and elixirs when I was a knee-scuffed lad. Here are a few of the concoctions I recall.

Milk of Magnesia: this wasn't milk at all but it was at least white and came in a blue bottle. Not for your corn flakes.

Germolene: pink hard creme in a flat blue tin. Windowlene for germs.

Savlon: toothpaste for cuts. Not sure it was a good idea.

TCP: hospital smell in a bottle. What sickly kids niffed of at school. Strangely compelling, a smell to be followed.

Dettol: similar to TCP but brown. It could kill almost anything yukky.

Domestos: could kill anything, even Dettol. Reeked of ammonia.

Calamine Lotion: pink pina colada for itchy ikky bodies. Came in large demi-johns.

Andrews: fizzy drink powder for Mums and Dads after a sesh the night before.

Can you remember anything else?

HORNET'S RING

I love this knockoff gumball Green Hornet ring.

Do you have one?

I saw it on Worthpoint.

Have you any TV or film - related rings?

SECOND WAVE BOOT SALE

With Covid rising in a Second Wave here in England I was chuffed that outdoor car boots sales can still happen.

With that in mind me and the Missus are going every Sunday at the moment in case the curtains come down with a viral bang very soon.  We wear masks and use alcoholic wipes as we're going round. Social distancing isn't easy though but we do try hard and walk down the middle where we can.

Going to these sales gives us a sense of some normality, which feels important. I imagine they'll be stopped soon.

This Sunday just gone was speckled by an unforecast and lengthy rain shower half-way through, which we thought was going to ruin it, but it passed and the covers came off the stalls and away we went again. Yay!

Sticking to my new regime of only buying old action figures, of which there are luckily always a few - and shelling out very little for them, here are this week's pickings [I never see any space toys anymore hence my switching to figures]:

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McDonalds Action Man figure 2001, already 19 years old!

The Gasman from Lanard's The Corps from 1990. 30 years old!

My personal favourite from this week, Captain Kidd from Imperial's Pirates of the High Seas line, again from 30 years ago in 1990! This was dear for me at £1.50! Imperial released Apollo Moon Exploring toys in 1970.

and a final small figure, which made up my three for a pound deal, is a mystery. It says V.I. 97 on the back and the word China. It came with a soft life vest. he looks like a swimmer, maybe a life guard? Any ideas who he is?

HELP WITH THE DECORATING

Here's yet another crafty little baggy of LP toys assembled for the vintage cake decorators of Detroit, Michigan back in the day.

I wonder of Heinrich's Decorating Nook is still going?

I saw the baggy on Worthpoint. Have you anything like it?