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Thursday, 21 December 2023

A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM ROB GODWIN

Best wishes to everyone for a great holiday and a prosperous New Year, from Bill (WOTAN)

Mobile Make-over

At the last boot sale of the year I picked up this weathered Crescent Mobile Crane.

A lovely simple design.

Just three colours.

Some paint was missing in patches and the rivet holding the crane to the truck was gone.

After some deliberation I decided to repaint the whole vehicle.

Using the Missus' Matt paint pens it covered nicely.

The three basic colours helped a lot. I left the hub caps alone.

I reckon it came out quite well. Do you readers?

Just needs a rivet of sorts now.

Anyone need a pick-up?

Hi Woodsy. A merry Christmas to you and yours and all the Moonbasers. Many thanks for all your hard work this year running the site. Rest assured it’s very much appreciated.! Rudolf is looking a little tired this year, so Santa has enlisted the help of Virgil and Thunderbird 2! .

Merry Christmas.

Will O.

A CONVOCATION OF EAGLES

As any posts I do on the iconic Space:1999 Eagle are always popular and well received on here, I thought I’d post a few photos I’ve taken over time of some of the large 44” studio scale models I’ve seen on display.

This is Eagle 1, the first 44” Eagle built for the series. I understand that once the series ended, it was displayed at the Space City exhibition in Blackpool, and eventually acquired by modeller and collector, Phil D Rae. At a latter date it was sold and restored to a high standard by mega modeller, David Sisson.

David displayed in many times at various events and conventions, but recently decided to put it up for auction, whereupon, it was sold to an unnamed bidder.

Fans have naturally speculated as to who and where it might have gone now, and fear it’s displaying days are over. A famous film director and notable Anderson fan has been suggested, but as I say, so far it’s pure speculation.

This is Eagle 2, the second on the three 44” Eagles built for the series. This made it’s first appearance in the episode, ‘The Last Sunset’. Although this model hasn’t had so much restoration, it still looks very impressive for its age.

Thankfully, it’s still gets displayed by it’s current owner, who, along with that also displays several other original Anderson TV series’ related props he’s acquired.

The man behind the Eagles: Special Effects Director, Brian Johnson.

As there’s plenty of reference material, quality moulds and replica casts available, remarkably there’s no shortage of modellers who’ve built their own 44” Eagles, but in my experience, Chris Potter’s 44” Eagle is certainly on a par with the actual filming props.

With all it’s the brass super structure I can confirm it’s certainly a heavy model.

Chris has also built a Laboratory Eagle transport module for it, as well as side boosters, top boosters, and occasionally attached to the command module, the blue alien device from the planet Ariel, as seen in, ‘The Last Sunset’ .

Finally, a photo I took from 2014, showing some of the members of the All Sections Alpha modellers group, where 44” Eagles abound, and between them probably know more about the models and props used in Space: 1999 than anyone else on the planet!

MEL'S OUTER SPACE MEN: A COLOURFORM CHRISTMAS

1968 and wowzers! Its those Colourforms Outer Space Men!

They are the true symbols of Christmas for me! Easily the best Christmas toys I ever received.

These bendy aliens were my fave space figures as a kid. They went perfectly with Major Matt and his gang.

If I wanted my Mum and Dad to save anything from landfill it would have been these otherworldly fellas.

They really were proper things of outer beauty and the designer Mel Birnkrant was/is a genius! Period!

Did you get an Outer Space Men man at Christmas back then readers?

Wednesday, 20 December 2023

TERRANOVA47's C-119 CARRIER

In reply to all those beautiful tin plate aeroplanes from Ed, here's my small eccentric tin plate plane made by MTU in Korea that I've owned it since about 1988.

It's small and as far as I know completely fictitious.

SEASON'S GREETINGS!

Terranova47

NYC