KEVIN'S STAR TREK NOMAD

Just took some photos of my scratchbuild of Nomad from the proper Star Trek episode 'The Changeling'. Made him years ago. He lights up and speaks.

Non-sequiter, your facts are uncoordinated.

Kevin D

UK

Cyborg - Half Man Half Machine!

Henshin Cyborg and Denys Fisher Cyborg in front

Following my Micronauts post, here are some similar shots of the Denys Fisher Cyborg, Android and Muton figures. there were hampered by the lack of poseability, being a shade smaller than an Action man figure, but with quite stiff joints.

The beautiful Android figure is the best, with interchangeable arms, legs and heads. Again based on Takara series figures, brought over to the UK.

These shots were taken with an analogue lens on a digital camera, using glass filters on the lens, for the specular and chromatic effects from exterior lights.

For the final shot, I highlighted Androids eye with a pencil laser. Take that!

 

A NICE BIT OF PORSCHE!

 Looking at the Investigator car from Gerry Anderson's proposed TV series I thought I saw a sports car in there!

The old Porsche Carrera! Stretched!

What do you think?

BRIGHTON UP A DULL DAY

Hello Moonbasers! 

Our tour of Merrie Olde England is coming to an end. I got to visit the home town of my long departed Auntie.

While there, I looked in on Snooper's Paradise a combined antique shop unlike anything we have back home in Australia.

I bought a genuine Beatles guitar broach which the stall owner helpfully informed me had actually been in production, unchanged until 1981! I didn't care as that's still vintage and the price was a bargain compared to Aussie places.

I also bought a 1967 Man from Uncle Annual, at least partly because the art was so gloriously of it's period. Interestingly, the interior artist was credited as Edgar A Hodges, a name I'm not familiar with.

Also, there was an unrelated filler comic called "Jet Dream and her Stunt Girl Counterspies" which I'd never heard of either. It seems to be a female version of DC's Blackhawk, complete with similarly awful foreign accents!

Anyone else know of it?

There was also a 1976 Space 1999 Annual with Apollo era articles that looked like they had been swiped from a 60's space Annual -but I passed up on buying that one!

Still, nice memories of a lovely trip.

Chat to you again when I'm back in Oz, 

cheers, 

Looey

ROB'S BULLMARK MEMORIES

Woodsy,

I managed to find a few images of vintage 70s Bullmark diecasts on eBay, and if memory serves, I had some of these figures. 

I know I had a Diapolon, a Mekanda, a UFO Warrior, and of course, Mecha-Godzilla. What I could not find evidence of were two magnificent SF vehicles in the same line; one was a colorful air/spacecraft, which had swing-out wings ala Thunderbird 1. 

The other was a boxy white tank vehicle with missiles and all the usual SF nonsense. 

I wonder what anime show they were from? 

Anyways, fond memories. I liked the boxes as much as the toys inside!

Rob C

USA

JURASSIC PARK AFTER HOURS!

What the tourists don't see when the park closes at the end of the day!

Ed B

USA

COCKTAILS ON THE UPPER DECK!

 I'm currently off work with a stinker of a summer cold, so to keep me on an even keel in between sneezing fits I've been touching up my new but incomplete Nikko Fire Boat.

Ever the bodger I've looked for low-tech kitchen-drawer solutions to missing parts and hey presto, we have ...... operation cocktail stick [I prefer that to toothpick!]

They were very easy to cut to size and glue in position!

After testing a red sharpie and a red paint pen I opted for the paint pen and set to work painting the new wooden stick rails.

A little new chroming on the water canon and a bit of general spit and polish and we're ship shape.

What do you think?

I may add a thin coat of PVC glue to the new painted rails to give them a more plasticy look but that'd be icing on the cake. I could actually use icing! ha ha

Without a remote I can't test it's motor but for now the refurbed Fire Boat will be in dry dock.

As an aside, venturing into the attic yesterday I found one of the very first bits of toy bodging I ever did, probably 30+ years ago. Its a Beatles Corgi Yellow Sub periscope made from Fimo. It looks awful but it was a lot of Fab Four fun at the time! A true relic from my early thirties, I was amazed its still around.

Hope Tony's Fimo Dredd doesn't Judge it too harshly!

A Macroscopic view of Micronauts

A few years ago, I produced a small book based on my favourite action figure line, Micronauts. First introduced way back in 1978 by Mego and later in the UK by Airfix, they were a hyper-poseable range of 3" figures that left the 'new' Kenner Star Wars figures standing. Besides being fabulously well designed and articulated, they all came with an amazing array of interchangeable vehicles, which made the options for play, almost limitless.

What I didn't realise at the time, was that they were a part of the much larger range of japanese Microman line, by Takara. Takara also made Henshin Cyborg, a Action Man scaled figure, similar to Micronauts with attachable weapon arms and accessories. Part of the Henshin line had also reached the UK via Denys Fisher toys, a few years earlier, as Cyborg.

The basic Micronaut figure was called a Time Traveller (with many other names in Japan) and was shortly joined by the enemy Acroyear, a more robotic figure and later by a series of cool aliens, which never found release in U.K, so I had to wait many years until the invention of the internet and the arrival of Ebay, before I actually acquired any!

With the advent of the internet, I began to realise the full extent of the Microman line and its relation to other toys such as Diaclone and Transformers.

Pharoid and his Time Chamber

For a full briefing on the toys and a comprehensive history of the lines, check out Micro Forever!

https://www.micromanforever.com/main.htm

Acroyear

Pallisades Repto and Pharoid reissues

Antron Attack!

Galactic Defender (original and re-issue) take on Repto

Classic Micronauts Aliens

Second Wave Centaurus

Space Glider

Acroyear warps in