A master action figure photographer was on the UK news the other day. His name is Isiaih Takahashi and he is quite inspirational.
One of his Darth Vader pictures is here on twitter https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE737DIU4AA03Cv.jpg
What do you think?
Being my last school-day off of the Easter break I thought I'd grab my Kenner Darth Vader and take a few snaps in the garden myself.
Its only when you get out there with your toy figure, your matches for creating smoke and your camera [my phone] that you realise just how talented action figure and toy photographers like Isiaih and indeed our very own Scoop and Wotan really are.
Its not easy at all!
For the sake of absolute beginners like me everywhere I've posted my pictures as a yardstick. The only way is up!
Me and the Missus caught a flick the other night called The Dig.
Its a modern film recreating how the Sutton Hoo horde was unearthed in Suffolk in 1939 as the Second World War broke.
Its certainly not an action film and takes on the pace of soil being slowly scraped away but it was very enjoyable and interesting.
The champion of the dig, on whose land it is, is one Mrs. Edith Pretty ably encouraged by her young son, who in the film is a Back Rogers nut. The archaeologist or 'excavator' as he called himself is Mr. Basil Brown.
What they find under the mound is magnificent: an entire wooden ship bursting with Anglo-Saxon treasures like coins, swords and all sorts. Oddly the famous helmet isn't shown.
It would appear from the flick that the 'authorities' took credit for the find and for years Basil brown was unknown. It was only relatively recently that his work was formally acknowledged.
I remember reading about Sutton Hoo as a kid and being entranced by the majesty of the gold torques and the shining helmet. I don't think I had any specific toys relating to Hoo but I adored plastic armour and swords. I really did. So much so that I find myself staring at them in Museum shops were they always seem to be. One of my favourites was a plastic mace made from brown plastic. I also loved digging up pottery and the like in my parent's garden. I even buried some coins in a biscuit tin.
On a whim I googled Sutton Hoo toys and lots of stuff appeared. I didn't even need a trowel. I was most surprised by a Timpo Viking figure wearing a Sutton Hoo helmet.
Did you have anything like this or any plastic arms and armour?
I came across this Italian film poster for Thunderbirds Are Go [1966] online the other day.
I was expecting the Zero-X but there's a strange looking space plane in there.
Anyone know what that is?
This is an interesting Japanese website showing lots of neat plastic toy subs, many of which have Sci-Fi chops.
Do you recognise any?
