MJ's Star Trek Lego Short

https://youtube.com/shorts/GYNjkTUYdoY?si=k7ISm6EIv79dWZG9

in space no one can hear you scream when you stand on a lego brick!

Enjoy!

Marky Bats

Southcoast Base

Honest Trade

 Walking through Hinderwell we spotted  a series of boxes along a garden wall. They turned out to be old second hand paperbacks and lots of them. Cheap as chips, our few dabloons went into the honesty box.

This is what we got. Any good?

I also bagged this old pair of plastic footy nets and players in a Stokesly charity shop for 50p. Anyone recognize them? 

Staithes

The Missus and me are currently enjoying the late May Day afternoon in the small cove village of Staithes on the East Yorkshire coast, a marine gem just up from Whitby on the Teeside borderland. 

We're sat outside the local watering hole, the Cid and Lobster, brushing off Greenfly. There are millions of them swarming round!

Staithes is famous for many things: fine crab sandwiches, tasty kippers, cobble boats, cobble cake and the place where one Captain James Cook cut his teeth on the fishing boats. 

More recently in the mid Noughties national treasure Bernard Cribbins starred in the CBBC show Jacks Old Boat filmed here in Staithes. 

Is it a show you know? 

BARBIE ASTRONAUT: SPACE PILOT OF THE FUTURE

Terranova47 sent me this neat picture back in 2020 during the Pandemic.

Two icons: his Dan Dare and the then new Barbie Astronaut!

Have you got icons together as well readers?

Captions Needed!

We're on the glorious Yorkshire coast this May Day: deck chairs, ice cream, trashy horror novel, the papers. The sun is out in force too! Enjoy your May Day wherever you are readers 

I saw these two shells next to each other on the beach just calling out for a caption! 

The Wild Wild West DVD Box Set

The TV series The Wild Wild West came up recently. This was a show that combined two popular TV genres of the 1960s – cowboys and spies, and can be summed up as James Bond in the Wild West.

James West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) were Secret Service agents, with their own train – as the gadget-packed spy car had not yet been invented. It was fitted out with all the crime fighting essentials, and was basically the Batcave on rails.

President Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77) appeared in a few episodes. But there were few other regular characters, apart from villain Miguelito Loveless.

Fighting mad super villains, the series ran for 104 episodes over four seasons, 1965-69. The first series was in black and white, and the rest in colour.

There were also two TV movies – The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979), and More Wild Wild West(1980), with the original leads. These were followed by a very poor Wild Wild West movie in 1999, with a new cast.

This magnificent boxed DVD set contains all the TV episodes, the two TV movies, and various extras, on 27 discs. Copyright date 2010.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

You know the Drill ....

Back from my earliest days as a kid making models, I loved the way Thunderbirds would use pieces of plastic kits to embellish their models.

Amongst other things, I'm working on a Giant X-ray robot and I want concealed boring drills in it's toecaps!

I couldn't find an off the shelf shape, so I decided I'd have to make it myself.

My 3D modelling skills fall far short of organic or mechanical subjects, so I couldn't just slap one together with a mouse!

So I decided to sculpt some examples using Kleenclay and talcum powder to polish it. After getting a nice smooth general shape, I carefully rolled a Satay stick into the surface to create the spiral grooves.

Then it was just a matter of 3D scanning it and a little smoothing and polishing in zBrush!

Now I can stretch or size it to my satisfaction.

...a pretty high tech way of making things with my own hands!

Looey

Oz Base

All My Ducks in a Row

 Imbued with an urge to spring clean the attic, I've stacked my old VHS tapes and sorted them alphabetically (yep, I've too much time on my hands!).

In a similar vein I've uncrated my old horror paperbacks and lined them up neatly in a bookcase.

When I get time (!) I'll sort these alphabetically too.

Always good to have a cold beer to hand when doing stuff like this!

Are you spring cleaning readers?