BULLMARK! BULLSEYE!

Even More Bullmark! Yes!

Just look at what they released back in the Sixties!

So many amazing Japanese toy vehicles!

No wonder these two kids look entranced!

Which of the toys would you like?

RINKY DINKY

 Just been looking at some old Meccano magazines from the mid-1960's. The Dinky ads on the back pages are great! See what you think.

NEWSFLASH! GOING APE!

 In a months time it'll be Konga and Friends week!

Ripen your bananas readers!

PLANET PLAYPLAX

 Messin' with Moonbase Junior's Play Plax.

A great toy!

Have you got Playplax?

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