ITS BOXING DAY!

 

HAPPY BOXING DAY!

WHAT ARE YOU UP TO READERS?

M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S!

 

Have a Cosmic Chrimbo 

Readers!

How's it going?

TALES FROM THE CRYPT: CHRISTMAS TELLY

 Stuck for something to watch?

The first segment of this The Tales from the Crypt 1972 is the best Christmas short you'll ever see! 

Enjoy the whole movie, why not!

Is Santa there yet? Merry Christmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAbgcMI97VE&t=87s

A CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER FOR LOOEY

Czech Designer, Artist and Toy Maker John Cervenka was about 25 years older than me. We met during a talk I was giving at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum and became fast friends.

John's Artist wife Vera had died before I met him, but her touch was all over the ramshackle house/studio he lived in the Blue Mountains.

The Dining room was a permanent Christmas fantasia with string lights and Yuletide artworks and decorations. Every year we would have a traditional Czech Christmas Eve Feast in this twinkling wonderland.

Earlier this year John died and his house, filled with his and Vera's paintings, his vintage toys and the small workshop where he hand made tin toys, became a dark locked memory. 

This Christmas Eve, his executor and friends held another feast. It was so much like old times that John's presence was almost palpable.

I was given a wrapped present that felt like an old Airfix kit box. When I unwrapped it, it was a vintage mint in box Astroray Gun. 

I cannot think of a better object to remember my old friend by,

Happy Christmas, Moonbasers....

Looey

Oz

DARK EVE

 Twas the evening tide of Christmas

The light turned into gloom

Spirits woke in soily robes

and hid around the room.

Happy spooky Christmas Eve!

LILY LEDY THUNDERBIRDS AND FIREBALL XL5

 

Some Mexican Lily Ledy Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5 and Bill Blastoff toys from way back when.

What do you think?

COLLECTABLE FIGURE KITS BOOK

While I was digging through the internet, looking for information for the Airfix figure articles, I came across this book. 

I have not heard of this before. Given your interest in figures I wondered if you knew of it ? It is on figure kits, and covers many of the major and even minor producers. It looks as though it would answer a lot of our questions.

Collectible Figure Kits of the 50s, 60s, & 70s, Gordy Dutt, Gordy's/KitBuilders Magazine, 1995. All in black and white.

Anyone got this?

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1995-book-collectible-figure-kits-2059353187

I also came across some interesting information on gold-coloured James Bond Aston Martins. It seems Corgi were not the only company turning out such models. Why gold? Anyone know?

I have finally finished the USS Enterprise Bridge kit. Now to write it up, but I am still working on the Airfix James Bond and Odd Job kit as well. One at a time.

Merry Xmas!

Paul Adams

New Zealand

JAPANESE ZERO-X: MESMERISING MAKER

I could watch - or listen to - this Japanese chap all day. Not to mention, he has a fine Zero-X Imai model to unbox and fit together! What a Christmas morning that would be!

Anyone ever get one of these models?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-BxPq3r1P0