ED'S TRANSPORTERS: IDEAL

Woodsy and Fellow Moonbasers,

Here's another terrific little vintage auto carrier, this time from Ideal. It measures 9.5" L overall and has a fold-down ramp for unloading the diminutive cars.

From Fast Eddie's Used Car Lot

Ed

BILL EVERATT AND WOODSY TALK PROJECT SWORD IN 10 MINUTES TIME!

As a an early booster rocket to our Project SWORD day you can hear me and Bill Everatt talk about Project SWORD on Celtica Radio.

You can hear the ten minute interview

live tonight, Friday Night at 8PM UK BST on Celtica Radio's Underground Edition.

Bill Ev also features the urban legend of the Philadelphia Experiment on the show too!

Lots to listen to so here are the links to Celtica Radio ....

FM quality

http://eu8.fastcast4u.com:5232/stream1

AM quality

http://eu8.fastcast4u.com:5232/stream2

Website

https://www.celticaradio.com

Tune in and enjoy!

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LISTEN AGAIN!

Hi, the show is now available for download or as a listen again on this link below for seven days.

The Underground Edition Podcast presented by Bill Everatt with special Guest Paul Woods - 

http://s124347079.websitehome.co.uk/audio/edition.mp3

ATB 

Ev

SWORDCAST SPECIAL!

A quick reminder that you can catch the Lord of Sword himself, live from the surface of Yorkshire, tonight at 8pm UK BST on Celtica Radio. Woodsy will be in conversation with Bill Everrat who you will know from our Swordcast series on Celtica Radio.

Bill's show 'The Underground Edition' will feature the interview, which heralds the upcoming Project SWORD Day, we are running on the blog and also an in depth article on the mysterious events surrounding the 'Philadelphia Experiment' and the urban legend surrounding the USS Eldridge battleship!

Catch all the action on Celtica Radio here:

FM quality

http://eu8.fastcast4u.com:5232/stream1

AM quality

http://eu8.fastcast4u.com:5232/stream2

Website

https://www.celticaradio.com

Tune in and enjoy!

 

A LOOK AT MY FAIRYLITE STINGRAY

 Some photos, old and new of my Fairylite Stingray, which I’ve featured a couple of times over time here on the blog.

I have fond memories of owning one way back in 1965, and to my young eyes it was  perfect. I ignored the less than accurate shape, the limited colour scheme, and the annoying four wheels and friction motor underneath, and simply imagined it diving under the sea, giving Titan and his Aquaphibians a hard time!

Nowadays, I’m a little older in years, and think, like many of you it’s always nice to find and sometimes own a piece of nostalgia from my childhood.

I found a damaged example of the toy on eBay, and bought it for a tenner. Luckily the body wasn’t in bad condition, apart from the usual problem of broken tail parts, missing rear hydro-planes, and no red rate master.

I knew I could get excellent replica parts of the hydro-planes and a rate-master from Greame Walker’s Big Red Toybox website, but that still left reproducing, and replacing the missing tail parts.

Being a woodworker, I decided to carve a couple of small pieces using close grained ramin wood, which is easy to sand to get something like the right shape.

I reckon it worked out okay, and once painted looks fine to me.

To complete the restoration I picked up a replica box from the Big Red Toybox, and voila, I’m all set to kick that pesky Titan’s butt!

Here’s a photo of Stingray next to another supersub!

The advert for the Fairylite Stingray in TV Century 21, dated October 30^th, 2065.

DON'T MOVE MY STUFF!

Yesterday morning Chewbacca went missing.

It was one of those classic moments where the Missus moved some of my stuff in the front room and Chewwy vanished.

The Chewwy in question was a tiny plastic game piece from the Sarlacc Pit game 1983, which I picked up at the local boot sale a week ago, together with a Luke and two Gamorrean Guards.

I actually heard myself saying 'Why did you move my stuff?' like a fifteen year old!

The Missus was inevitably defensive and reposted with 'I needed to get to my own stuff!'

An hour later, the front room turned over, my need for Chewbacca's return ludicrously real, the wookie emerged from a bag of Matchbox track it had fallen into, in the hall!

In the end my Missus had nothing to do with it. I'd moved the Matchbox track bag! I was suitably humble when I said said sorry to the Missus for accusing her!

Does this sound familiar readers?

TERRANOVA47'S 3D PRINTED BATTLESHIPS

Last week when you posted Wotan's LEM you asked :

You could get anything 3D printed I imagine these days!

Have you got anything readers?

Well, yes.

Long ago I sold off my Tri-ang Minic Ships Waterline Models, as they were not of any great interest to me but then on eBay I saw a 1/1200 HMS Rodney, 3D printed.

To me that class of battleship defined the look and power of a battleship and in the listing it mentioned the company that designed the software for printing it, Ghukek's Miniatures.

I contacted the designer, paid $10 per design, sent them scale drawings of Royal Eagle and Crested Eagle.

I then arranged with the company that printed the models to provide them 1/1200 and 1/600 scales after getting the software from the designer.

Here they are. On the larger scale ones I replaced the masts with plastic to be thinner.

One shot has a Tribal Class Destroyer and a Flower Class Corvette as escorts.

Terranova47

USA

STINGRAY INFLATABLE

 Some photos of the Golden Wonder crisps mail-away Stingray Inflatable that appeared in 1965. The memorable comic strip advert, drawn by Ron Embelton appeared in several comics at the time, both in colour and monotone. The ads here are from TV Century 21, and Valiant. 

THE HOT WHEELS H2GO BOAT

One of MC's posts mentioned the Matchbox Seafire boat model from the 1970s. Hot Wheels do a rather similar model, called H2GO.

This is a twin-hull, twin-engined, twin-seat racing speedboat. Very low and sleek.

Only the white upper hull is metal. The black lower hull is plastic, with chromed engines and interior, and smoke-tinted windscreens.

Red and blue tampo-printed graphics. The model actually runs on four small wheels, hidden under the model.

The model dates back to 2008, and has © 2008, '16 Mattel on the underside. Made in Malaysia.

Four photographs

Paul Adams from New Zealand