Ed's Trash To Treasure Flagstop Station

Woodsy,

It was great reading the recent series of posts about turning scraps from the parts bins into something useful. 

While my mind doesn't work well enough to come up with ideas for a spaceship or spy toy or action figure, it wants to focus more on what I might be able to do for my train layout. 

A few years back I wanted a really small flagstop station (I believe they're referred to as 'request stops' in the UK) for my Edge of Town micro-layout. 

Plasticville makes a small passenger platform that looks good, and I used one for a while, but I wanted something smaller still.

 Inspiration came from the Internet when viewing photos of rural milk platforms and flagstops.

 I ended up cutting down an old Plasticville platform that was a bit beat-up, added supports, a new wooden deck, and a passenger shelter made from a Plasticville 2-stall outhouse with the doors and inner dividing wall removed, and a bench added. 

I gave the whole construct a disheveled, 'I need maintenance now' look and am quite satisfied with the results.

From Request Stop Vegas!

Ed

MOEBIUS 2001 ROCKET MOONBUS

 Some photos of the Moebius Rocket Moonbus, which is a re-issue of the old Aurora kit. and based on the model seen in 2001: A Space Odyssey'

In the film the Rocket Moonbus is used to ferry astronauts from Clavius Moonbase to the Tycho site.

This is one of the pre-built versions, Moebius released.

Ed's Red Pyro Sighting

Woodsy,

These photos were culled from fleaBay many years ago and show yet another Pyro space toy.

From Vegas Base

Ed

Kali Lives!

 

It's years since I've seen actual Kali. But here it is! Standing tall next to it's pal American Cream Soda in a Hornsea sweet shop.

I adored a small bag of Kali as a kid, a more subtle taste than tarter Sherbet. 

For some reason I didn't get any, perhaps fearful of ruining my sweet memories.

Did you liked Kali readers?

SMALL SEAVIEW

 A couple of old photos of the smaller Moebius Seaview model.

Kevin's AMT Klingon and Romulan Ships Biuld

Bought this recently just to give myself something to do for a few days! It is the old amt kit of the Enterprise, Klingon and Romulan ships from proper Star Trek. This is the reissue and that was in 1989!

Anyway, here it is, small, inaccurate but cute!

Cheers,

Kevin

The Dry Salvages

In the summer heat we visited a cool salvage yard in Hornsea last week.

There were cars.

Boxed toys and games.

Mr. Muscle is new to me!

It's those big dolls again! 

A FROG buccaneer

We also visited this beach .... And survived! 

And then a stop in Beverley, is that Caroline Munro on the LP cover?

Three big ships in dry dock.

Anything of interest readers?

Lancer Caps Everywhere

I'm seeing whAt I think are Lancer's caps everywhere now I've got one!

Here's one on eBay without it's insignia but no mention is made of the cap in the listing, so is it a Lancer's?

 It's worn by a non-Action Man on an Action Man motorbike, which itself is rather nice.

In another shot the cap is placed with an incomplete Action Man and a uniform.

The Man is armless, the description is capless.

"POLICE MOTORCYCLE & DEAD ARMLESS ACTION MAN 1964 by PALITOY embossed (out of action ie dead ideal for diorama piece) & Action man Cavalry HORSE & unbranded SCOUT CAR & 21st Century American AIRBORNE Paratrooper action figure complete all limbs attached and robust & A small arms kit (MNIB) to construct a machine gun."

A Lancer's cap?

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By way of a postscript, I found a cheapo Action Man clone in a drawer and he kindly modelled my new Lancer's/ Officers cap for me!

Looey's Visit to Tin Monkey

Hello there, Moonbasers!

Our slow ramble through blog worthy Antique shops continues...

This time we're visiting the recently opened Tin Monkey in Blaxland.

They have a range of reasonably priced industrial and Academic furniture pieces. I picked up a large Japanese enamelled sign, which is something I've long lusted after.

Of more interest is the small collection of vintage die cast toys, including these post war cars.

I still have my example of this Matchbox Rolls Royce from back in the day! The Matchbox toys are about £7.50, is that OK from where you come from? A lot of Australian prices are quite a bit higher. The Dinkys are a bit pricier...

The movie poster was probably about £12.50.

It's in pretty good condition, but is being featured here for one reason only.

That pink car in the dead center of the composition. Does it remind you of anything? How about if it was painted black?

Hopefully a better range with my future shop visits...

Keep window shopping, friends...

Looey

OZ

Candy Lost?

We're back in gorgeous Hornsea by the sea and I was faced once again with Candy.

Candy is the name I've given to a large shop display doll in the window of a charity shop. I blogged about her last September and yep, she's still there in the same chair. This time I even asked if she was for sale but no chance.

I call her Candy because she looks a lot like the girl doll of the same name from the obscure Gerry Anderson comic and book line, Candy and Andy.

Here's the Anderson Candy stood next to a lake in one of the Sixties comics.

Spookily we're sat in a very similar spot, on Hornsea Mere,  as I write! All I need is the doll from the shop and I could recreate the scene!

The question still remains, what happened to the actual Candy and Andy dolls? Are they lost?

The answer is no. At least they weren't around 1994. The then owner Roger Perry, erstwhile Century 21 editor, had them sold as he explains on the Bear Alley website in 2016:

https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2016/05/perrys-picture-post-part-5.html?m=1

"Candy, Andy and the two Bearandas be sent off for auction. By now, the rubberised “flesh” had become noticeably perished (the soft wire that ran through the fingers thus allowing items to be held began poking through the rubber) and some of the welded joints on the skeletal armature – particularly on the two bears – were sadly in need of attention. I believe the dolls were eventually bought by someone for an absolute pittance somewhere around 1994."

So there we have it. Candy et al were sold. But to whom I wonder?

I can't find any reference to that auction in 1994.

Bill's Action Buddy

 As this round of our MoonBase International custom toys slowly comes to a close, our latest reincarnation is this 1960's Action Man knockoff.

This was Bill's childhood buddy and along with some of the original kit he totally deserves a new lease of life. The buddy that is, not Bill! 

With a good scrub-up and freshly cleaned clothes, Bill's buddy, via the Quartermasters Store, has been sent on one last mission before hanging up his dog tags:

To secure the back garden for the summer!

Mission Status: SNAFU!

After debriefing, The next step in buddy's reinstatement and immediate de-mobbing will be new retirement package, which is currently in pre-production.

In the meantime our plastic chum is off down the NAAFI for some well-earned tiffin.