BATTLESTAR ARTICLES

 A couple of articles featuring Battlestar Galactica in Starlog and Starburst magazines.

FAMOUS SPACESHIPS MAGAZINE

 Some pages from the Famous Spaceships of Fact and Fiction showing the Monogram Viper and Raider kits.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA POSTER MAG

Some photos of the Battlestar Galactica poster mag published by Paradise Press in 1978.

Conan's Charger

 This large 1992 Conan Horse trotted into my life this week.

Nearly all the armour there, just a missing shinguard: my photo-shoot ersatz is Baco-foil.

The pull-strung in its back makes this beauty gallop.

All he's missing is armour Conan. Watch this space! 

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BATTLESTAR

 I see Battlestar Galactica was mentioned yesterday, with various opinions about it expressed.

Personally, I liked the original series, and saw the film version at the cinema. Obviously, it's generally considered TV's version of Star Wars, but when it came out, at a time when I was going to at least three or four Sci-fi conventions, every year,  it was very popular and hard to avoid, and as such, I have strong nostalgic feelings towards it.

I've even still got my original Revell Battlestar Galactica kit, which I bought and made at the time.

As to the updated series, after all the hype I did manage to get through the first season, but I didn't stick with it after that.

The Magnificent Race

 Paul's ace book Monte Carlo or Bust reminds of this vintage board game I once picked ked up at a sale, The Magnificent Race.

Not sure who did the box art. It may still be in the loft!

Very Wacky Races cum Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

You got one or anything like it!

Pics: Ebay

Paul's Monte Carlo - or Bust!

Hi Woodsy,

Here is a book I found at a recent Lions Club book fair in Auckland, for just $1.00 NZ (44 New Pence in British money). The price sticker on the cover is for the London Bookshops, a chain which once operated in NZ, but which is now long gone.

This book is based on the film Monte Carlo or Bust (1969), also known as Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies. It was a sequel to Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), but this time set in the 1920s, and with cars rather than aeroplanes.

I had thought this was the same movie as The Great Race (1965), but it seems that is not so. Although Tony Curtiss was the hero in both !

Monte Carlo - or Bust ! Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies, by Jack Davies, Ken Annakin, Allen Andrews, & Ronald Searle, Dobson Books Ltd., 1969. A note on the rear flap of the dust jacket states that a similar volume is available for Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.

The film involves a race to Monte Carlo, including cars from many different nations. Much villainly ensues, as a fleet of vintage cars and their drivers battle it out.

British artist, and creator of the young 'ladies' of St. Trinian's School, Richard Searle provided the artwork for the film. A note on the copyright page states 'The drawings in the first part of the book are taken from the storyboard for the film titles, the drawings in the Rally Chronicle are from Ronald Searle's notebook of sketches made on location'.

A somewhat humorous history of early motoring is followed by the story of the film, from the point of view of each contestant. Throughout the book are black and white or colour illustrations by Ronald Searle.

The cast included a number of major film stars of the day, some of whom had been in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Terry-Thomas plays the son of his original character, but he is still the villain.

Have you anything like this?

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Ed's Lever Action Tin-Litho F-104

Well Woodsy.

I met with a bit of frustration trying to locate that lever-action F-104 I recently commented about.

I have one in green (as shown in your photo) as well as a silver one. Yet - apparently, I never took photos of the green version as they're nowhere to be found on the computer - and I would need to mount a full-blown excavation into The Cave to locate it. 

Anywho, here's the same jet in silver.

From Vegas Air Field

Ed