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Tuesday, 11 April 2023

What If Fantasy Box Art

I just found this video on You Tube. What If...Fantasy Model Kit Box Art, by Matteline1967.

It shows various made-up kit boxes for kits that were never produced. Most are science fiction, or from movies and TV shows.

There is even an 'Airfix' 1/12th scale Queen Elizabeth II. Actually, such a kit was made by the British company Selcol in the early 1960s.

The artwork is really well done, and captures the look of old 1960s box tops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX5B1TUUOA0

Have you done anything like this?

Paul Adams from New Zealand

RICHARD'S ANDERSON CLOSE-UPS

A few more from my archive....close ups this time...enjoy....

Regards

Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS , Lancashire UK .

This time around....The rescue Eagle...original small miniature , around 18 inches - 2 feet in length....the nose unit of one of the modified spacecraft used in Space 1999....a small communications unit built by Martin Bower from Space 1999....Closup on a Hawk space fighter from Space 1999....Father Unwin...the original puppet from the Secret Service - last of the Supermarionation Puppet Series....

THE STRANGE EXPLORER!

Here are a few pix taken from Kitahara Teruhito’s Instagram page of that classic 60s SF Space Tank, Strange Explorer!

Do you like it?

Rob C

USA

Base Notice

I'm going off Base for some time later today to arrange and attend a family funeral so I may be less active for a bit. Look after each other Moonbasers and I'll see you on the other side.

TUT TUT

I always love pictures of this toy as it so reminds me of my childhood.

King Tut is the stablemate of a toy I adored, the skeleton version of it called the Restless Spirit.

These toys were all the same, magnetic and great fun. The 'bodies' just won't stay down.

King Tut Arises!

This King Tut was made by Fairylite no less.

My own Restless Spirit was bought from mail-order kings Ellisdons of Liverpool.

Did you have anything like this?

Monday, 10 April 2023

Easter Monday Memories

With Moonbase Junior and Miss all packed up and gone back home Moonbase is eerily quiet after the busy Easter weekend.

Its still Easter I know and as a kid Easter Monday was by far the most important day of the holiday. Two big things happened; one - we all went as a family - Mum, Dad, Brothers, Sisters, grandkids and me - to Avenham Park in Preston and rolled our chocolate eggs down the huge grassy hill there. We may have had a picnic too but I certainly recall practising Kendo with my older brothers. I was obsessed with Martial arts in the early Seventies and took along two bamboo sticks. Somewhere there are some snaps of this Easter Kendo!

The second thing was Disney Time on at 5 or 6pm on telly. It was the go-to programme back then - snippets of all our fave animated films and some of those quirky live-action movies that Disney did as well like Return to Witch Mountain. I think Disney Time was on for an hour and it was Easter Monday heaven! Today I'm going to watch some She Hulk, Attorney at Law on Disney+ to keep the tradition alive but with a modern twist!

What did you do on Easter Monday as a kid readers?