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Thursday, 14 November 2024

KEVIN'S BLAKES 7 SPACE STATION INTERIOR SCRATCH BIULD

I've made another A4 wall plaque in tribute to the sets used in Blake's 7.

This one is a style used in a lot of Federation structures.

Kevin D

KOMODO DRAGON AND CONDOR KITS: Revell Endangered Animals by Paul A.

Two kits from the Revell Endangered Animals series of the 1970s. Most of the kits depicted various mammals, but this pair depicted a reptile and a bird.

H-701 Komodo Dragon,

1/10th scale - green plastic, 20 parts;

Moveable head, tail, and legs. A Long-Tailed Macaque Monkey was also included.

later 6461 Bedrohte Tierarten Komodo Waran.

H-702 California Condor,

1/8th scale - black plastic, 18 parts;

later 6462 Bedrohte Tierarten Californ. Condor.

The only bird in the Revell range. Moveable wings and head.

Eight photographs, all from Worthpoint.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

TERRANOVA47'S CARMEN CERRA GODZILLA

Terranova47 kindly sent me this fabulous drawing of his favourite "dragon", the original Godzilla, part of a private family commissioned work by the artist Carmen Cerra, who Terranova47 discovered from Hugh's Small Scale World blog [there are the occasional links with updates of Carmen's painting of gaming figures.]

ELSECAR ANTIQUES

A trip this week to a nearby Barnsley emporium was fun.

Amidst the thousands of send hand treasures on two huge floors I spotted a few for the blog.

This array of die-casts caught my eye.

The Zygons were very appealing at £10 each but I resisted, what with Santa on my case and all.

So too the Lunar war Chariot, just £6. Note the Joe 90 Car exhausts! And is that a SHADO2 missile?

Some old plastic as well, Manta Force and Batman, nicely boxed and encased in plastic boxes. I imagine these are high grade items for such care and attention.

Lethal Enforcer isn't a game I know. the protected Spawn action figure was £75, again, a high grade item.

The Toy Biz Joker Cycle took me right back to 1990 when I first started getting excited about toys again. It was the merchandise tsunami following Tim Burton's Batman in 1989 that did it. I recall standing in front of an aisle of discounted Toy Biz Batman toys at Pontefract's Poundstretcher, including a big stack of these Joker Cycles, and I was hooked.

I came away with these two cute Sixties Skiiers, who were going for a song in the bargain bin outside.

Anything you like here?

MUTO AND MOTHRA

I've always liked Matt Allsopp's superb design for the MUTO, the Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism, which was pitted against Godzilla a few years back. Its pointed claws, angular features and square jaw have an almost Alex Toth feel to them.

Matt also gave Mothra a similar look, creating a striking crab-like creature.