A MESSAGE FROM ME TO ALL OF YOU!

MERRY  CHRISTMAS  READERS FROM  WOODSYHAVE  A  SACK-FULL  OF  FUN  THIS  HOLIDAY!

A CHRISTMAS CARD FROM MJ

Bring the card to life here:

https://youtube.com/shorts/BTNaH5Gw9QY?si=nDs1f8hIpIYMy5NU 

BEHIND THE( BLAKE'S 7 MODEL) SCENES

A couple of behind the scenes model shots from Blake's 7. 

Amazing Working Model Airport

I have just found this amazing You Tube video, about a former airline captain who built himself a giant, working model airport. 

The aircraft take off and land, including the Concorde!

His wife is responsible for the maintenance work on all the vehicles, including changing their tyres. Look closely, and you will see lots of familiar die-cast vehicles by Matchbox and Husky/Corgi Juniors, and what look to be Scalextric figures.

Originally broadcast by the BBC in 1980. I wonder what happened to the layout ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLmMr1WYf-Y

Paul Adams

NZ

 

MARKY'S MYSTERY STARBOOD

Hi Woodsy 

any readers know about these?

Regards

MJ

THE SKIES THE LIMIT: THE SEARS FIELD HELICOPTER

 Sears never fail to blow me away.

Here's another barnstormer, the Field Helicopter.

The toy looks spectacular, a backpack with rotors! Just amazing and the closest thing kids would have got to a jet pack!

I imagine these are uncommon and one on Ebay USA commanded a hefty tag.

Here's a video I found about the toy on You Tube.

Is this something you were lucky enough to own one Christmas readers?

Where did you fly to?

IMAI SKY 1

 

As my old Skydiver photos were quite well received, here’s a few photos I took back in 2016 of my Imai SKY 1 kit.

Like all Gerry & Sylvia Anderson TV series’ related Imai kits, accuracy is generally sacrificed for play value and gimmicks.

The Imai SKY 1 kit is certainly no exception. Friction drives and a battery-operated remote control could whisk the plane backwards or forwards across the floor, along with a rear opening flap, at the back of the fuselage which housed a tiny SHADO Mobile or a vague representation of Paul Foster’s car. Not to forget the spring-loaded ejecting missiles under the wings.

All good fun, but like most kit builders I wanted to, at least try to make it look a little more like what we saw on screen.

Obviously, the wheels were out, and the opening flap was sealed. The spring-loaded missiles were glued in place.

It didn’t come with any cockpit detail, so a rummage in the bits box provided an ejector seat and pilot.

I was never going to waste my time trying to make it more screen accurate. The idea of trying to alter the rear tail fin and it’s position, along with the kit having the same detail on either side of the fuselage, plus the totally wrong shape of the nose intake would have meant it might have easier to leave it in the box, and just buy a decent resin kit of it.

Once it was painted and weathered, and decals were added it didn’t look too bad. To the casual observer the inaccurately-shaped intake is probably it’s worst aspect.

Imai re-released the kit several times over time; mine is probably from the mid-eighties.

Aoshima released a version of the Imai kit in 2004, using more or less the same tooling. It was still designed to be built as a toy, but this time it had a remoulded , and more accurate looking nose section.

A reproduction of the original SKY 1 box art by Shigeru Komatsuzaki, reprinted on the back of the Aoshima kit.

Copy of first World Cup sticker album to be auctioned - BBC News

I found this snippet interesting. A 1970 World Cup Panini sticker album coming out of the garage and into auction.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-67589153 

I never had one of these but I remember the Brazilian team so clearly from watching it on telly at the time. My folks got a colour TV for the occasion, a huge expense at the time. I remember neighbours coming round to watch matches.

That Mexico World Cup was captivating to me and probably a lot of kids. Every game seemed to be bathed in glorious sunshine and the football appeared to be magical, as if played by Supermen.

Brazil were the inspired team of the Cup, the most brilliant footballers any of us had ever seen. Blessed with Olympian grace and speed, Brazil were on another level altogether.

Their fantastic skills were equalled by enthralling names that sounded like their first names and we all felt sure they didn't

have a surname. Supreme beings with a single name: Tostao, Rivelinho and the glorious Jarziniho. Even Gerson sounded

exotic in such company.

Mexico 1970 was a high point in soccer for me. At age 9 it got me interested.

I supported Leeds United after it was all over, another gifted generation. I bought Shoot comic religiously and collected football cards.

It didn't last, my love of football. By age 11 it was all over

Did you see Mexico 1970 readers? Do you follow football or any sport?

Do you have any memorabilia from the 1970s?