THE NOMURA PLASTIC SPACE STATION

I was intrigued by this plastic space station toy pictured on Alphadrome. Have you seen anything like it?

 http://alphadrome.net/data/displayimage.php?album=8&pid=4830#top_display_media

THE MULTI-JAWED OCEAN ALIEN

I thought the alien cave worm - the Hammerpede - in Prometheus was scary.

https://www.facebook.com/Moving.Picture.Company/videos/489856598149924/

But that's nothing.

I am really scared after seeing this clip of the dreadful Bobbit Worm.

Good God! How many mouth parts has it got?

  

What do you think? Scarier than the Alien Hammerpede?

Is there anything worse?

THE JENSEN OFFICE CAR 1969

 Completely of its time I still love this Jensen Interceptor fitted out with office equipment! There's a typewriter, a shaver and a .... is that a phone?

For the tycoon in your life!

It would have made a great plastic toy!

What do you think readers?

KEV'S MPC VINCENT KIT

Hi,

Just finished this MPC kit of Vincent from The Black Hole. Been trying to track one of these down for years. Had to scratchbuild a few bits and fake the decals but hey ho.

Starry, starry night,

Kevin D

UK

A History of Horror Movies

Hi

          I do not know if you have already seen this, but I have just discovered a BBC series on You Tube called A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss, from 2010, in three parts. It deals specifically with horror movies.

Each episode looks at a different era. Part 1 kicks off with the silent films of the 1920s, before moving on to the Golden Age of the early Universal sound films of the 1930s. This is not just the usual talking heads and film clips. There are such treasures as Lon Chaney Senior's make-up case, and a life-cast of his head, on which he could try out new make-up designs. Wow. There are also numerous interviews with surviving cast members from several of the early films.

A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (Part 1 of 3) Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood - YouTube

Part 2 moves to England, and British-made horror films, starting off with Hammer.

A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (Part 2 of 3) Home Counties Horror - YouTube

Part 3 moves back to America, and films set in the present, from Psycho and Night of the Living Dead, to the later slasher films.

A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (Part 3 of 3) The American Scream - YouTube

An interesting series, I watched the three-hour series on a single rainy Saturday.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

THE SMALL ADS: WHAT FUN!

I adored the small ads in newspapers back in the Nineties and the Naughties. There were lots of old toys in them.

You know how it worked: see the ad, ring the telephone number [on the landline] and go to the address to exchange cash [actual money] for the item for sale. Boom!

When I was a keen driver I used to go all over my bit of Yorkshire to buy stuff. Some top purchases from classifieds included a Dinky FAB1 with blister box, a huge collection of old Monogram and Revel model cars, an Elvis mirror [strange even for me] and a mint boxed 1960's Action Man.

Probably the oddest thing I bought was a Ouija Board game by Waddingtons, which I quickly sold on!

Did you buy stuff from classified small ads?

A NEW JERSEY HALLOWEEN

Hi Woodsy.

It was a lot of fun this Halloween since it fell on a Sunday. That meant I pretty much celebrated the entire weekend! 

I pulled some odds and ends out of the closet and cobbled together 3 different costumes and attended many parties, both private and public. 

I visited my mother on Sunday to help with Trick or Treat, and retired to my house to eat some candy and watch TV.

I Hope you had some Halloween fun.

This is the entrance to my mother's kitchen,where bags of candy and slices of freshly baked Pumpkin Pie await Trick or Treaters.

The excellent decorations are courtesy of my brother. They are motion activated so that the lights and sounds spring into action when people pass by!

Now let's take a little break before Christmas-Mania clubs us over the head!

Brian F, NJ, USA

SEA FIRE, CADILLAC, GALAXIE AND BATMOBILE TOUCH-UPS

 After Junior went home on Halloween I relaxed with some touching-up my die-casts.

Here's a nice Superfast Sea Fire that needed a little white.

This Lesney Cadillac Ambulance needed quite a lot of white paint pen as did the Lesney Ford Galaxie Police Car. I'm happy with them like this now. I won't bother with new transfers, I don't need a complete look.

I've also started an experiment, a basic refresh of a Corgi Batmobile. Being a lazy restorer I've blackened it with a Sharpie marker, which I'm quite pleased with. The hubs have been reddened to cover up very scratched silver [I don't have any silver!]. The missile launcher has been re-glued in position but I see that it was originally silver so I may need a silver paint pen after all!

I'll just see where this Batmobile takes me!