Hammer Horror

 Another toon for the dark season, Hammer Horror by the one and only Kate Bush.

https://youtu.be/XR4KnfcgLm0?si=gpyLctfBjD5WkxMv

Do you like Kate's music?

Sanjay Space Plane

I was impressed when I saw this space place from India. It may be the first space toy from the sub-continent we've had on MC.

This aeroplane by Sanjay recalls the space planes released by Blue Box and others that have appeared many times here.

Have you anything like this?

BRAAAAAINS!

 

I wouldn't take it to Titan but I'd have it the day before I left.

A blast from the past, Mr. Brain's Pork Faggots, found in the frozen aisle at Farm foods! They'd been there fifty years! Ha ha!

Bread and butter, Yorkshire tea and three hot faggots with gravy.

Nostalgia never tasted so good! 

How does it look? Were and are you a fan?

Knock it Off Batman!

hi Woodsy

check out this short of a CT Toys Batman. This figure is a knock off, I know everyone loves a knock off on this blog 😀

https://youtube.com/shorts/lhqBdtbz-BE?si=Bisp7krfz6GH8qTi

What do you think?

Regards MJ

Knock off Base!!

What If Kit Box Art Video 19: Thunderbirds Pod Vehicles

Hi Woodsy,

The very talented artist Matteline 1967 has just done another of his videos, featuring box art for model kits that never existed, but certainly should have.

 What If 19 mostly looks at the pod vehicles from Thunderbirds.

All are in imaginary Airfix boxes, and are to the standard scales that Airfix used for their real kits. These being 1/600th for the ships; 1/144th for the rockets and large aircraft; and 1/32nd for the vehicles.

It is a great pity that Airfix ignored the 60th Anniversary of Thunderbirds. There are so many Gerry Anderson craft that would still make great models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8b3wO8P3U4

What do you think?

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Improper Salute? Put that WAAF on a Charge!

Hello Moonbasers,

do you like Gashapon figures?

Those carefully detailed Japanese figures come inside plastic balls and can build up to quite impressive sizes. They need to fit inside a 50mm ball and I've been toying with the idea of turning some of my puppet film work into collectable figures.

On a Monday night, I go to a local group "Sketch Club" held by a retired Art School tutor. I often draw pictures of toys, but I also work on clay sculptures.

I decided to make a figurine of the central character in my film, as a combination of

"sweater girl" and Spitfire pilot! I've already made a 1/2 scale head with flying gear, so I shrunk it down to 1/5 scale and sculpted a clay body to go with it.

Then life got in the way and the clay figure stood on my 3D scanning stage for weeks. The other day, I decided to look at the scans and discovered I hadn't done any final scans at all!

So with a quick session, I managed to get my figure into the computer and printed out on my 3D printer. The 50mm gashapon size,

is a perfect fit for the Trumpeter 1/25 scale Spitfire kit I'll be using for my VFX.

Last night I was watching the movie Shamrock Spitfire for reference and inspiration. I noticed the RAF salute with the thumb facing downwards, whereas my sculpt is American style.

Luckily I can modify the clay arm, rescan it and print out a King's regulations version!

I'm just having too much fun! For the first time in my life, I'm enjoying the journey as much as the destination.

Happy toy hunting Moonbasers! 

Looey

Oz

Houston, We Don’t Have A Problem

 As reported a few weeks back, Woodsy bought me this lovely LEM model from an antique store. It was simply marked Revell on the base and looking up the Revell Apollo kits, I decided it must be the pair of LEM and CSM, but without the CSM and stand shown here.

A few days later, I recalled a bag of parts I had bought on ebay and the fact that it contained a small Apollo CSM. I dug them out and it looks like the correct scale for the set, even though its hard to tell as the model had been inexpertly assembled some while back.

Its covered in adhesive and the crew module has been glued on incorrectly. Unfortunately, the plastic is really brittle, so theres no way to separate the parts. Still, its nice to have a complete set!

The bag of parts also held a small red Mercury capsule, parts of another and a very damaged Gemini capsule, along with a few other parts. The plastic is fatigued and looks almost water damaged. It may have been immersed in some kind if solution to separate the parts, but it seems to have eroded the plastic too.

In a strange twist of synchronicity, while I was dealing with the Apollo model, I spotted a super rare Spacex II Apollo CSM on ebay too! Missing the small antenna and with Michael Collins loose in the cab, It came home for an absolute song. Ive found a similar style antenna - if a little large - to finish it off.

Its perfectly in scale with my Aoshima LEM kit that I made up in mock Spacex colours too!

On a Rope!

As All Hallows Eve looms ever closer and Monster Base's house band is raising hell in New Jersey, I thought I'd play a few creepy tracks over the next few weeks on MoonBase to get us into the spirit of the dark season.

To kick off here's Rocket from the Crypt with On A Rope from 1996. Yeah!

https://youtu.be/2Ezd9WfXbnI?si=iG4r78BAd1ZGdLYS

Please send in your spooky requests. If you can mix space and monsters then all the better!