Manama More Apollo 13

More beautiful stamps from Manama. Here we have a Nova rocket and a Piloted Moon Buggy, both top right and both part of the Triang SpaceX range, which some of you will have. Pictures welcomed! 

Barnsley Bounty

A mooch round Barnsley's charity shops this week was fun. 

My inexpensive haul this time: three built-up plastic kit aircraft, four lovely red vinyl fairy tale 45's including Cinderella narrated by Dickie Attenborough and a paperback by Leo Kessler. 

These will all be tidied up and form part of my winter sale on eBay, funds generated to finance my ongoing VHS project. 

The three empty video cases are for said project too. Trucks, the novel, is now part of my 80's pulp horror paperback shelf.

The old Waddingtons Ashore game is the Missusses for the Grandkids.

See anything you like? 

A Message from Looey

"That there's some corner of a foreign rooftop That is for ever England."

The joys of low budget film making! I needed film of a fluttering Union Jack on a flagpole for an element in a VFX composite I'm planning.

So, one $6 flag from eBay, a length of pvc drainpipe from the scrap heap, a length of rope from the greenhouse and four grabber screws!

Strapped to my chimney and a low angle to mask  the trees and Pandannas and this will pass for North Africa, 1942!

My camera case has a piece of sign work on it, which will end up in the film. The graphics will be printed out as a sign board, that a worker will be seen painting.

I still haven't got my Spitfire to filming standard, but I now have the flag it flies past!

Anyway, with the year over, it's time to say

      "Happy New Year, Moonbasers!"

Looey

Oz

A Bird in the Hand

I must say looking at these pics

I prefer this jazzed-up Japanese Star Bird

With it panels and red nose

To the plainer Western version.

What do you reckon?

Action Man Vintage Ads from TV

Thanks to TimeTunnelToys in You Tube, I really enjoyed watching these old TV ads, especially the late Sixties, early seventies. I so remember sliding my arctic patrol action man down our snowy drive on his wobbly skis, as if it was yesterday.

Do these ads bring back memories for you? We're there similar ads in your country?

https://youtu.be/KXf8OLhmxjY?si=TiW5baHVN826y57v

Manama More Apollo 16

Some gorgeous stamps here. Do you recognise any of the space vehicles?

Quantity of Assorted Toys

 A couple of toys caught my eye on old auctions.

A new one on me, the Magnetic Moon Race. I've no idea how it works mind! 

And Lilliput, a beautiful set of parts for building structures and cars in townscapes. It my be East German.

What do you think readers? 

Ed's 2010 Batman 5-Pack

 Woodsy, 

As a follow-on to Paul Adam's 2026 Mattel Batman vehicle 5-pack post, here's my only set. It was a 2010 issue that I bought perhaps ten years ago.

From The Vegas Batcave

Ed