BLAKE'S 7 ATTACK SHIPS ATTACK MY BRAIN

I'm seeing Guada - or is it Gauda? - attack ships all over the place now! Even when they aren't Gauda at all!

Here's another sci-fi mash-up, Space Ship King. Star Trek meets what?

It came in different colours!

What do you think? 

CYBERIA 23 BLAKE'S 7

Check out these 3D images by the talented Cyberia 23. I found them looking for Gauda Prime attack ships. There's one in there and much more for B7 fans.

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/user/1442952376441587263224339/cyberia23?filter=blake

BLUE BOX WINEX: A BLAKES 7 FLYING SAUCER MYSTERY

 

This is a strange one. This blue saucer appears to be part of the well-known Blue Box space vehicles series.

I saw this online ages and ages ago and thought. hmmm, I don't know this one. I saved the image.

My photo label says Winex, so I assume that's the maker but I can't find anything else or even this image. Has anyone got the toy?

Not only does this toy have all the things we associate with the Blue Box line - box art and arrowhead decals - it also recalls something we've blogged about before, the Blakes 7 connection.

Could this blue flying saucer be inspired by these Gauda Prime spaceships from Blakes 7 we've featured before? Look at the box art too.

What do you think?

ROB'S SCI-FI SUMMER BOOK STACK

Woodsy, Here are pix of my summer reading stash, but knowing me it will take much longer to get through all of these:

1. The Flying Eyes / Some Fabulous Yonder (reprint of an Ace Science Fiction double novel
2. I Speak for Earth / Wandl the Invader (original Ace Science Fiction double novel)
3. The Outer Space Connection (ancient astronaut stuff)
4. The Ancient Engineers (L. Sprague de Camp)
5. The Worlds of Clifford Simak
6. The Monitors (cool SF dystopia satire, made into an even cooler movie)
7. Ripley’s Believe it or Not (comic digest)
8. Macabre Mysteries and Horrors (1966 British horror anthology, including J Sheridan le Fanus great The Vampire)

I’ll be honest - it’ll probably take me years to get through all of these!

Rob C

USA

TIMMY TOAD'S TAR PIT

Woodsy, after your recent blog on the How and Why Wonder book of Dinosaurs, I managed to nab these 3 off ebay for just over £6 inc p+p. Bargain!

Comparing the Dinosaur UK softback and US hardback versions , the US one (right) is on better quality paper but suffers overcropping of the rhs of the page. Poor Dimetrodon has lost his head!

Whilst I don't remember owning the Mammals book, all the pics look very familiar-maybe I read it at school or had it as a library book. Standing out is the sabretooth on the back of a mammoth in a tar pit!!!! Is this the image you remember?

Timmy Toad

RUSSIAN BUG

I love this Soviet moon rover I have in my old photo archive. There aren't any more details with it. It looks maybe metal as well as plastic to me. What do you think?

Giant Insects Invade New Jersey

In response to Paul A's article,here's my Giant Insect kit.I have never heard of Dencomm before,but often distributor names vary from country to country.

This kit is from Moebius,and was bought and assembled a few years ago.Looks like the current owner of the Aurora rights here in the U.S. is called Atlantis.

I also have a Dr.Deadly kit,waiting to be assembled.Since the weather is becoming warmer,I may soon set up a table on the patio and get it built! I will keep you posted!-

BrianF NJ USA

Dracula's Hearse

Hi Woodsy

Last year I ordered some of the Noch HO horror models that I had discovered on the internet. I did send you some pictures of these, but they were ones I found on the internet, and not of very good quality. 

So I am going to send you some better shots of these models, now that I have my own sets. First up is Noch 16714 Leichenwagen, or hearse coach. 

This is an early horse-drawn vehicle, and would be ideal to go with your vampire models. Noch is a German company, making accessories for model railways in various scales, although the hearse is Made in China. The model is plastic, and is mainly black, with silver trim. 

The horses are brown, and the faces and hands of the humans (?) are flesh. There is a brown-draped coffin in the back. Oddly, the horses can not be joined to the shaft, but just stand either side of it. Overall length about 85 mm. 

It comes in a small, clear plastic box. This is not strictly a Dracula model, but I posed mine beneath the walls of Castle Dracula. At $29 NZ, plus postage, this is an expensive little model, but it is of very high quality. 

The photos were also fun. 

Yours Sincerely, 

Paul Adams from New Zealand