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Friday, 31 January 2025

SICK BAY

I like toy guns, I always have but this is really odd. Quite why a Doctor's set would need a handgun is beyond me!

No-one needs feel left out, they come in pink and blue!

For years 3 upwards.

Bizarre!

Landline Apocolypse

I heard yesterday that they had switched off all landlines here in England.

Now I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure what it means.

I assume 'they' means BT.

We personally haven't had a house phone for about a year. No one phoned us on it, only marketing firms. We rely entirely on our mobiles.

So anyone know what it means that they switched off all landlines?

"To carry a man, a larger edition is required...": an art box is born!

Hello Woodsy, my Missus has been getting up to all sorts of hijinks...

As Cliff Richard sang "I met a girl and she told me she loved me

I said you love me then love means you must like what I like"

Well, that's come home to roost with her latest 1/12 scale room box.

It features a friend of ours in his studio (for the BlueMountainsPortrait Prize)

There are lots of lovely details like the broom made out of a toothbrush and the mandatory hidden mouse, but the crown jewel is a hand made miniature of George Pal's Time Machine, reimagined as a pull toy!

The disc at the rear and the cushions on the chair are made of Sculpey poly clay. The base is balsawood and aluminium wire. The carved timber details on the chair are cut out of plastic sheet and the flourishes built up with modelling paste and PVA glue (how does she do it?)

The whole thing is hand painted with chrome metallic paints for the details. I'd just bought a new box set of Green Stuff World metallics and it looks like it's left me already and gone to live in her paint drawer!

Hmmm, those wheels on the pull toy look awfully familiar... Ring any bells, Moonbasers?

Looey

Oz Base

Kevin's Custom Mr.Troop

Hi,

Made Mr. Troop, the Trumpton Town Clerk.

The Mayor is very busy!

Kevin

Nagasakiya SF Mecha MOLAB

Here's something we've seen before on MC but only in part. Now we can see the full candy showa molab vehicle from Japan. Thanks to Terry H for pointing it out.

What do you think?

Thursday, 30 January 2025

Our Mock Mr. Rock Blister Carded

It's been awhile since this Mr. Rock mockoff figure was finished.

I've been waiting for the best blister to fit his 9 inches and wide stance, but more importantly I wanted to do decent justice to Bill's fabulous repro card art.

Today I found a largish clear plastic sushi box in Aldi. It provided the perfect blister, as well as my Japanese lunch. You got a little plastic fish too! Result!

So here he is, the Moonbase International carded mock Mr. Rock finally finished.

See what you think.

In monochrome as it might have appeared in comic ads.

I added an old price tag this time for a final touch.

I had to keep this photo as somehow it's captured my ugly mug too! Ha ha

SMART MOVE

Being a long time fan of the spy spoof TV series Get Smart I was pleased to get hold of this AMT kit of Max Smart's Sunbeam Tiger.

I'll do a more in depth look at the car and the series, once it's built.

Aces In Action Lenticular Cereals Cards

Hi Woodsy,

Here is another set of Lenticular cards from packets of breakfast cereal. This time from Nabisco Spoon Size Shredded Wheat.

From 1980 (40th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain), the 'Aces in Action' Magic Picture Cards. A set of five cards depicting famous RAF fighter aces shooting down enemy aircraft in the Battle of Britain.

Each card shows the action in three stages. Honestly, the images are not great, and the aircraft are not well drawn, but a very interesting set.

This You Tube video from Cerealmad shows all five cards, as well as the front and back of the boxes. The back of the packet even had a mail-away offer for two Airfix kits.

For £2, plus two box tops, and 60 New Pence postage, you got a Spitfire and a Messerschmitt Bf-109. The offer closed 31st December 1980.

The kits are described as the 1/48th scale Airfix Spitfire Mk.Vb, and the Messerschmitt Bf-109E. but Airfix did not do a Bf-109E in 1/48th scale at that time, only a Bf-109F – both this and the Spitfire Mk.Vb were far too late for the Battle of Britain.

Both the Spitfire Mk.Vb and the Bf-109E were available in 1/72nd scale, so something is amiss. Does anyone have any further information on this mail-away offer ?

The advertisement says 2 Models for Only £2, Save £1. This does indeed suggest the 1/48th scale kits, which were in Series 4, rather than the cheaper 1/72nd scale models which were in Series 2.

But neither of the 1/48th scale kits depicted aircraft from the Battle of Britain era, as both the Spitfire Mk.Vb and Bf-109F entered service in 1941. I have no idea what sort of packaging the mail-away kits came in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX-_W2dGGR4

Paul Adams from New Zealand