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Model Forum / General / Models / May 2008What fun kits would you like to see?
For some reason, the 'ebay madness' thread got me thinking crazy thoughts which took me to.... Wouldn't it be great to see a Dale Gribble bug killer van, from the King Of the Hill series, along wth a skinny shirt-less Dale posing beside it! Or, the four man line-up, standing in front of the fence. What fun kits would you like to see? > For some reason, the 'ebay madness' thread got me thinking crazy > thoughts which took me to.... [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > What fun kits would you like to see? A 1/72 scale F-302 from "Stargate SG-1".  SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. > > For some reason, the 'ebay madness' thread got me thinking crazy > > thoughts which took me to.... [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. Non resin kits from the Aliens movies.... A fun kit for me would be a WWII subject w/o PE 1/32 Japanese WWII aircraft - almost all naval planes have been ignored in this scale The Aurora Superboy/Dragon kit from the 1960's A Hoshi Soto kit from Star Trek Enterprise Craig On Apr 26, 1:21 pm, "cr...@earthlink.net" <cr...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > For some reason, the 'ebay madness' thread got me thinking crazy > > > thoughts which took me to.... [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > - Show quoted text - With alternate uniform for ~Empress~ Sato from the Alternate Universe... > On Apr 26, 1:21 pm, "cr...@earthlink.net" <cr...@earthlink.net> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > With alternate uniform for ~Empress~ Sato from the Alternate > Universe... yes, that was a great 2 part episode... bet the show would not have been cancelled if they added a bit more T&A... I know I would have watched more. Craig : yes, that was a great 2 part episode... bet the show would not have : been cancelled if they added a bit more T&A... I know I would have : watched more. The gold captain's shirt still looked as hidious then as it did 40+ years ago, however. And T'Pol looked completely out of place in the mini-skirt and thigh boots. Having said that, I have my 1/350 PL NX-01, but I am still wondering whether to get ISS Enterprise or ISS Avenger decals. Probably the former, since the later was chewed up by the time they joined up with the Defiant. Now, hoping for a USS Enterprise in 1/350. No bloody 'A', 'B', 'C' OR 'D'! Plus decals for the USS Defiant, NCC-1764. Bruce Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes In message <573db42f-7b3e-4780-8dd7-4fce46cd3c0a@a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, "crw59@earthlink.net" <crw59@earthlink.net> writes >> > What fun kits would you like to see? In the past there was an "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark" kit What about Lara Croft as the "modern" version? SignatureMax George Max George said the following on 27/04/2008 09:05: > In message > <573db42f-7b3e-4780-8dd7-4fce46cd3c0a@a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > What about Lara Croft as the "modern" version? Oh yes, I remember the Elvira model. I was asking as a serious question really as the UK Wallace and Gromit and Dr. Who series has been produced and they're a kind of niche market so why not other series - unless there is no money to be made in any of the tv spin-off's? I'd have thought King Of The Hill, Family Guy and Futurama would have at least gone plastic. >I'd have thought King Of The Hill, Family Guy and Futurama would have >at least gone plastic. Figures modeling has died the death of a thousand pre-paints and action figures. Even the resin garage kit market is a shadow of it's former self. Wulf On Apr 27, 3:41 pm, Wulf Corbett <wu...@wulf.demon.co.uk> wrote:> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:21:11 +0100, Richard Brooks> > <richardbro...@vickers-armstrongs.com> wrote:> >I'd have thought King Of The Hill, Family Guy and Futurama would have> >at least gone plastic.> > Figures modeling has died the death of a thousand pre- paints and> action figures. Even the resin garage kit market is a shadow of it's> former self.> > WulfNot in 1/72 it hasn't. Twenty years ago there were almost 1,000 individual and sets in all mediums. Today there are over 4,350 with more released every week. The selection is just plain amazing. I'm doing eight vignettes of Russian WWI and Revolution using a different set for each. Some, such as the old Atlantis figures, need a lot of work. Most such as Strelets, Orion and Hat, are superb in both details and poses.Tom >Max George said the following on 27/04/2008 09:05: >> In message [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >I'd have thought King Of The Hill, Family Guy and Futurama would have >at least gone plastic. futurama has. i have a battery op stewie that i never put batteries in because it talks. someone@some.domain said the following on 28/04/2008 00:17: >> I was asking as a serious question really as the UK Wallace and Gromit >> and Dr. Who series has been produced and they're a kind of niche [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > futurama has. > i have a battery op stewie that i never put batteries in because it talks. I was thinking more in kit form. Maybe the Bender character came with a casino, with Blackjack tables and hookers? On second thoughts forget the casino and Blackjack. >someone@some.domain said the following on 28/04/2008 00:17: >> In article <U4KdnQbkuK7FYYnVRVnyhwA@bt.com>, Richard Brooks [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >a casino, with Blackjack tables and hookers? On second thoughts >forget the casino and Blackjack. forget the flapjacks. on 4/27/2008 4:05 AM Max George said the following: > In message > <573db42f-7b3e-4780-8dd7-4fce46cd3c0a@a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > What about Lara Croft as the "modern" version? Or "Seven of Nine" (Jeri Ryan in 'Star Trek Voyager') SignatureBill In Hamptonburgh, NY To email, remove the double zeroes after @ > on 4/27/2008 4:05 AM Max George said the following: >> In message [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> What about Lara Croft as the "modern" version? > Or "Seven of Nine" (Jeri Ryan in 'Star Trek Voyager') Or maybe Xev from "LEXX"... SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. >Or maybe Xev from "LEXX"... Xev or Zev? Personally, I preferred Zev... Wulf >> Or maybe Xev from "LEXX"... > > Xev or Zev? Personally, I preferred Zev... They could do a whole series. First Zev and Xev. Then Lyekka and maybe Bunny. SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. >> Xev or Zev? Personally, I preferred Zev... > >They could do a whole series. First Zev and Xev. Then Lyekka and maybe >Bunny. Never underestimate Giggerota... Wulf >>> Xev or Zev? Personally, I preferred Zev... >> >>They could do a whole series. First Zev and Xev. Then Lyekka and maybe >>Bunny. > >Never underestimate Giggerota... Just to reply to my own message, I just looked up Ellen Dubin on IMDB... damn, man, *I* underestimated Giggerota! Wulf : Just to reply to my own message, I just looked up Ellen Dubin on : IMDB... damn, man, *I* underestimated Giggerota! I only saw a few (of the last) episodes of LEX, but I was amused to see Nigl Bennet (Prince) as part of the cast. I really liked Bennett for his role as "LaCroix" in Forever Knight. His radio personna of "night crawler" was excellent. Plays an excellent bad guy... Bruce Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes >>Or maybe Xev from "LEXX"... > >Xev or Zev? Personally, I preferred Zev... > >Wulf yeah, great inustrial noise guy. > > on 4/27/2008 4:05 AM Max George said the following: > >> In message [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. Oh yeah! Now you're cooking. Aside from Erin Gray I would love to see the return of any of the Disney-themed models along with new ones. The Revell Capt. Hook Pirate Ship and the Strombecker Rocket To the Moon are not models of vehicles, they are 1/72 scale models of the Disneyland structures. In other scales there were the Pirates of the Caribbean sets, the stagecoach and several other attractions. Top of my list for new Disney-themed kits would be a 1/700 Disney Magic and Disney Wonder cruise ships. They are identical, so decals for both should be included. In 2011 the new Disney Cruise Line ocean liners shall be ready. No announced names yet, but I can IMAGINE with some FANTASY what they will be. There are solid models in two scales of the Wonder and the Magic available on board. I have both and they are really beautiful, but I want a kit that I can put some real effort into with etched metal details and all the bells and whistles. I'll be in Japan next month and shall be keeping an eye out for the airliner kits in Tokyo Disneyland logos. There are four and I have two already. Tom > > For some reason, the 'ebay madness' thread got me thinking crazy > > thoughts which took me to.... [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. I was just at Starship Modeler, They have one in the e-store. I'd like to see a decent sized (NOT wargamer!) Daedalus or Apollo. > For some reason, the 'ebay madness' thread got me thinking crazy thoughts > which took me to.... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > What fun kits would you like to see? Mercedes Benz G4... aka, the six wheeled staff car used by Genral Burkhalter in "Hogan's Heroes". If I had my druthers - 1/18th scale plastic. WmB WmB said the following on 27/04/2008 07:01: >> For some reason, the 'ebay madness' thread got me thinking crazy thoughts >> which took me to.... [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > WmB Did they ever do the Top Cat characters in plastic kit form? Dad to bemused son :"Now THOSE were real cartoon characters!" Isn't that also Hitler's 'parade car'? If so, while not 1/18, Hasegawa has or had one in 1/72 & Nichimo or Bandai or some Japanese mfr had a 1/35 one. There's also a 1/35 die-cast from another outfit. > > For some reason, the 'ebay madness' thread got me thinking crazy thoughts > > which took me to.... [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > WmB > Isn't that also Hitler's 'parade car'? If so, while not 1/18, >Hasegawa has or had one in 1/72 & Nichimo or Bandai or some Japanese >mfr had a 1/35 one. There's also a 1/35 die-cast from another outfit. I know so little about the mad little weenie, could be. I know that they didn't make a lot of G4's, and that the one on Hogan's may not have been authentic. One fella claimed way back when online that it's a doctored Maybach Zeppelin. I guess that would mean old 1930s Maybachs are easier to come by in So Cal in the mid 1960s than a 30s Mercedes touring yacht. I've looked at a few pics of some Maybach candidiates and I can see where it could very well be a conversion. There is scant little info available. If it is a conversion, someone went to a lot of trouble - more so than on any other vehicle on the show. Hogans was the show where they passed off a M7 Priest as a new Tiger. If it was a buildup, it must have been done for a movie or production much bigger than Hogan's Heroes. Anyone ever recall seeing it in a film? And if they ever get around to it - a nice big scale Beverly Hillbillies Jalopy with four familiar passengers (5 if you count Duke) would qualify in the realm of a fun kit on my shelves. WmB > "Richard Brooks" <richardbro...@vickers-armstrongs.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > WmB > For some reason, the 'ebay madness' thread got me thinking crazy thoughts > which took me to.... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > What fun kits would you like to see? A 1/72nd scale "Serenity?" Or some 1/72nd scale Star Wars figures to go with the kits..... Don H. > > For some reason, the 'ebay madness' thread got me thinking crazy thoughts > > which took me to.... [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Don H. Ghostbusters Stapuff Marshmallow Man > > For some reason, the 'ebay madness' thread got me thinking crazy thoughts > > which took me to.... [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Don H. Ummmm, there ~were~ some figures available. The Hasbro toys like the Action Fleets all came with two figures each and other sets of figures only held up to a dozen individuals (Note that they also had these in Starfleet characters as well). The figures weren't exactly 1:72, but close. I am planning on using a Chewy and Han Solo in my Millennium Falcon, possibly with a Luke and Obi-Wan as well (don't remember if I have the droids). "Don Harstad" <dharstad@alpinecom.net> wrote > A 1/72nd scale "Serenity?" Oh yeah... with a 1/1 scale Jewel Staite to go with it. :-) RobG (The Aussie one) >> A 1/72nd scale "Serenity?" > > Oh yeah... with a 1/1 scale Jewel Staite to go with it. :-) I see that Jewel Staite has been promoted to a regular character in the next season of "Stargate Atlantis". SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. On Apr 26, 9:39 am, Richard Brooks <richardbro...@vickers- armstrongs.com> wrote: > What fun kits would you like to see? First, of course, the middle-aged balding guy building a kit. Second is Princess Ardala from the 70s Buck Rogers. Okay, I'll settle for her ship -- and the Starfighter 1314 -- from the series. I've had enough trouble with extra women in my life. > On Apr 26, 9:39 am, Richard Brooks <richardbro...@vickers- > armstrongs.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > for her ship -- and the Starfighter 1314 -- from the series. I've had > enough trouble with extra women in my life. There was one fighter in use in that show that was simply a cut-down A-10 kit. Throw away the wings. Saw off the nose and the rear fuselage. Throw away the centre fuselage and glue the remaining pieces together. Add a few random science-fictiony looking bits. Hey presto! And those Starfighters... How many seats did they have? On a few occasions, they managed to get three people in one of them, and every person had their own seat. And weren't the Starfighters supposed to be the latest technology space fighter? Then how come *everyone* had them? Including college kids... SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. > And those Starfighters... How many seats did they have? On a few > occasions, they managed to get three people in one of them, and every person > had their own seat. And weren't the Starfighters supposed to be the latest > technology space fighter? Then how come *everyone* had them? Including > college kids... > I could never figure out how it was supposed to land with those fins hanging out of the bottom. Pat >> And those Starfighters... How many seats did they have? On a few >> occasions, they managed to get three people in one of them, and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I could never figure out how it was supposed to land with those fins > hanging out of the bottom. Maybe the undercarriage was in the bottom of the fins, like the undercarriage pods on the tips of the anhedral wingtips of the Spectrum Angel Interceptors. And speaking of which... a reissue of the Airfix kit wouldn't go amiss. It would look rather good painted in the same camouflage as an F-16. SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. > I could never figure out how it was supposed to land with those fins > hanging out of the bottom. Perhaps they folded together under the flat ventral panel between the engines. Assuming those were engines -- there were folding stairs in those cylinders, on both sides. >> And those Starfighters... How many seats did they have? On a few >> occasions, they managed to get three people in one of them, and every [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Pat I could never pay attention to anything other than Erin Gray and Pamela Hensley. And those are the two best things about that show. WmB > >> And those Starfighters... How many seats did they have? On a few > >> occasions, they managed to get three people in one of them, and every [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > WmB ~Four~ best things about that show..... On Apr 29, 4:45 am, " WmB" <HELLinh...@earthlink.net> wrote: > "Pat Flannery" <flan...@daktel.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >~Four~ best things about that show..... That observation crossed my mind too - I just felt like it gave Erin's equal billing with Hensley's, and I just don't think it stacked up (ahem) that way. WmB On Apr 29, 1:45 am, " WmB" <HELLinh...@earthlink.net> wrote:> "Pat Flannery" <flan...@daktel.com> wrote in message> > news:L62dnQgWPvIc0onVnZ2dnUVZ_rLinZ2d@northdakotatelephone...> > > > > Enzo Matrix wrote:> >> And those Starfighters... How many seats did they have? On a few> >> occasions, they managed to get three people in one of them, and every> >> person had their own seat. And weren't the Starfighters supposed to be> >> the latest technology space fighter? Then how come *everyone* had them?> >> Including college kids...> > > I could never figure out how it was supposed to land with those fins> > hanging out of the bottom.> > > Pat> > I could never pay attention to anything other than Erin Gray and Pamela> Hensley.> And those are the two best things about that show.> > WmBHaving dated her in high school I would absolutely put Erin Gray at the top of my wants list. She would love it, too. Still a might fine looking lady as she approaches 60. She attends the occasional sci-fi convention and I hear from her a couple of times per year. Planet Hollywood in downtown San Francisco has her Wilma costume as one of its displays. That waist was next to impossible.Tom >Having dated her in high school I would absolutely put Erin Gray at the top >of my wants [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Francisco has her Wilma costume as one of its displays. That waist was >next to impossible.Tom I remember (even if she didn't). Lucky bastitch. ;-) WmB... William For those who don't remember the correspondence re Erin from a few years ago, Bill's keeping me honest. When I contacted Erin through her web site she didn't remember me from high school.:-( I was really bummed. She was a military brat and moving from school to school left little time for remembering people forty + years later. She is such a classy lady that she makes sure to send me e-mails outlining her appearances and the occasional "what happened to..." missive. The day she appears anywhere within 100 miles I'll be there! One of these days our high school should have a '60s reunion instead of one specific year. Let's see: Erin Gray, Robin Williams, the lion tamer at Ringling Bros., at least two radio personalities, a half dozen local television folk, a couple of big time criminals, etc. We lost David Duke (Winds of War, etc.) a few years ago, but a decade reunion should be a blast. Some of those classes were so big that we would have to rent the fairgrounds. Tom > >Having dated her in high school I would absolutely put Erin Gray at the top > >of my wants [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > WmB... William >maiesm72@netscape.com> wrote in message >news:311c2203-b346-47d7->a0d4-818d52b7c484@1g2000prg.googlegroups.com... [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >happened to..." missive. The day she appears anywhere within 100 miles >I'll be there! If it had been me I would have been surprised to be remembered. My sister was her class hottie and I got to stand on the side lines and take notes. Erin must have been just as black and blue from the attention. Some things can be faked, esp. in the acting profession - she's definitely a classy lady and that can't be faked and it always comes thru in her work. They either don't put them together like Erin anymore or they put them in the end of the line in favor of giving air time to the tramps that parade across TV these days. I know I'm out of step with today's culture - and more and more each day I'm becoming rather proud of that fact. >One of these days our high school should have a '60s reunion instead >of one specific year. I voiced the same thought for our school - I had friends a year or two older and a year or two younger that I'd like... I think I'd like... to see again. With five older brothers and sisters that I tagged along behind I knew a lot of people that went thru the high school years before I did. It's a small town high school that opened in 1972 so they could pretty much just invite all graduates or attendees over the years and we'd still probably have a fairly small crowd. Even the class of 2012 can come - I probably went to school with their parents and in some cases grandparents and they can find out what real little sh.ts we all were. WmB > I could never pay attention to anything other than Erin Gray and Pamela > Hensley. > And those are the two best things about that show. > I still like the Betties off of "Quark" Of course, "Land Of The Giants" had its points also: http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicles/Spindrift/spindrift16.jpg http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicles/Spindrift/spindrift17.jpg I think I only saw one or two episodes of Buck Rogers. That damn robot put me off of the thing. Thank God Sci Fi's Battlestar Galactica didn't bring Boxy and that Daggit back. That concept was completely fraked up. ;-) Pat >> I could never pay attention to anything other than Erin Gray and Pamela >> Hensley. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Pat the daggit was a major part of fire in space, one of the 5 best. >> I could never pay attention to anything other than Erin Gray and >> Pamela Hensley. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Daggit back. > That concept was completely fraked up. ;-) Boxy appeared in a couple of episodes of the first season. If you look carefully in the very first scene of the mini-series, where a Number 6 seduces a Colonial officer while the Armistics Station is destroyed, you will see that the officer has a picture of his family on his desk. Boxy is his son. Starbuck seemed to want Boxy around to act as her personal jester but thankfully Tigh put a stop to all of that. Boxy and the daggit were the absolute worst parts of the original series. Every single time that the adults needed to go on a dangerous mission, Boxy and the daggit managed to stow away. You'd think that they would do security checks on their spaceships as part of the pre-flight... In one particularly silly episode, the heroes were hiding in a crevasse on a glacier while the Cylons were searching for them. It was imperative that they kept quiet but the daggit started growling at the Cylons. So what did Apollo do? He put his hand over the daggit's speaker grille. Instead of switching the blasted thing off and later on ripping its battery pack out and beating the child severely around face and neck with it. SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. >>> I could never pay attention to anything other than Erin Gray and >>> Pamela Hensley. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > switching the blasted thing off and later on ripping its battery pack out > and beating the child severely around face and neck with it. Boxey is the final 12th Cylon to be revealed on BG this year. ;-) WmB >>>> I could never pay attention to anything other than Erin Gray and >>>> Pamela Hensley. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Boxey is the final 12th Cylon to be revealed on BG this year. ;-) Better bluddy not be... SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. > Boxy and the daggit were the absolute worst parts of the original series. > Every single time that the adults needed to go on a dangerous mission, Boxy > and the daggit managed to stow away. Sort of like the chimp in the trunk on Speed Racer. Pat : Sort of like the chimp in the trunk on Speed Racer. Which on, Chim-chim or Spraddle? Not that it matters much, both were obnoxious and better off never drawn. Bruce Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes > : Sort of like the chimp in the trunk on Speed Racer. > : > Which on, Chim-chim or Spraddle? Not that it matters much, > both were obnoxious and better off never drawn. > The monkey is in the new movie. It's back in the Mach 5's trunk, as usual. Meanwhile, back at "Monkey News" (stories by, about, and for monkeys): http://monkeydaynews.blogspot.com/ (Bookmark it - or be entirely out of step about what is going on in our planet's exciting "World Of Monkeys"). ;-) Pat : The monkey is in the new movie. : It's back in the Mach 5's trunk, as usual. Yeah, I saw both Spraddle and Chim-chim in a commercial for Speed Racer today. That is okay, I was not planning on seeing this movie. It is simply missing something. And what is with Spike TV trying to give away a Mach 5 "inspired" Corvette? Lame. Waste of a good late '60's Vette. Bruce Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes > : The monkey is in the new movie. > : It's back in the Mach 5's trunk, as usual. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > The Power and the Prophet > Robert Don Hughes Like the losers that painted their Volkswagen beetles to like like Herby the Love Bug. Waste of a good car. > There was one fighter in use in that show that was simply a cut-down A-10 > kit. Throw away the wings. Saw off the nose and the rear fuselage. Throw > away the centre fuselage and glue the remaining pieces together. Add a few > random science-fictiony looking bits. Hey presto! I was going to try to build one of those starting with an A-7. Never quite got around to it.... > And those Starfighters... How many seats did they have? On a few > occasions, they managed to get three people in one of them, and every person > had their own seat. And weren't the Starfighters supposed to be the latest > technology space fighter? Then how come *everyone* had them? Including > college kids... I saw the simulator used at a theme park. There were four seats in the simulator. I'm watching the series now, and I see that in some shots there's only one seat centered, but when they need to carry extra persons, there are at least three seats: two in front and on in the back. I've never seen studio drawings of them, so I have no idea what anyone was thinking when they set up the shots as they did. mholt wrote: [Buck Rogers Starfighters] >I saw the simulator used at a theme park. There were four seats in >the simulator. I'm watching the series now, and I see that in some >shots there's only one seat centered, but when they need to carry >extra persons, there are at least three seats: two in front and on in >the back. I've never seen studio drawings of them, so I have no idea >what anyone was thinking when they set up the shots as they did. I'm watching it, too, as much as I can stand, mostly fast-forwarding to the fx shots. Sometimes the model has a double-wide canopy on it; haven't checked if they match the correct fighter exterior to the correct interior, much less whether Buck took the correct ship when he later had to pick up passengers. I'm lovin' the "Cruise Ship to the Stars" - the ship they repainted and maybe halved the scale of to make the Searcher for Season 2. Signature-Jack >mholt wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >repainted and maybe halved the scale of to make the Searcher for >Season 2. worst sequel tv series ever! >>mholt wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> >worst sequel tv series ever! Galactica 1980! Signature-Jack > Galactica 1980! > Oh, dear God, Flying Motorcycles. :-) I'm really surprised that some of the "old boys" here didn't come up with the Doctor Who kits that have been done over the years; particularly in regards to Daleks (numerous in both injected-molded and resin). As far as to Wallace and Grommet: http://www.internetmodeler.com/2000/january/first-looks/airfix_wallace.htm (Favorite visual scene still is Grommet grabbing the drill and whirling around atop it; best look in Grommet's eyes is when he hears what Wallace said about "The Moon is _made_ of cheese, Grommet", and realizes the profound implications of that statement to his near future in regards to potential space travel). :-D Pat "Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message > I'm really surprised that some of the "old boys" here didn't come up with > the Doctor Who kits that have been done over the years; Until recently, I thought "Dr Who" had something to do with Dr Suess's "Cat in the Hat". Don't ask me why. Might have been all the Whos down in Whoville. Internet fans squared me away a few years back. WmB >"Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message >> I'm really surprised that some of the "old boys" here didn't come up with [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >WmB so you'll ride away on a credenza? i want pics. > so you'll ride away on a credenza? i want pics. > (Pat waves Sonic Screwdriver) How would you like all 46 Dalek variants? http://www.comet-miniatures.com/browse.php?s_categ=139&zone=30& Aliens and Cybermen: http://www.comet-miniatures.com/browse.php?s_categ=175&zone=30& And keep a eye peeled for the upcoming Airfix Dr. Who/Kylie Minogue kit in 1/12th scale, coming in August! (No, I'm not making this up....in 1/12th scale, Kylie will be 5.08'' in height. How much does that girl weigh anyway? 75 pounds?) Pat > "Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message >> I'm really surprised that some of the "old boys" here didn't come up >> with the Doctor Who kits that have been done over the years; > > Until recently, I thought "Dr Who" had something to do with Dr > Suess's "Cat in the Hat". <pedant> That's *Doctor* Who... </pedant> ;-) SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. > Galactica 1980! > Oh, dear God, Flying Motorcycles. :-) I'm really surprised that some of the "old boys" here didn't come up with the Doctor Who kits that have been done over the years; particularly in regards to Daleks (numerous in both injected-molded and resin). As far as to Wallace and Gromit: http://www.internetmodeler.com/2000/january/first-looks/airfix_wallace.htm Favorite visual scene still is Gromit grabbing the drill and whirling around atop it; best look in Gromit's eyes is when he hears what Wallace said about "The Moon is _made of cheese_, Gromit", and realizes the profound implications of that statement to his near future regarding potential space travel. Actually, Wallace's refrigerator piled high with cheddar cheese, and his cupboards full of crackers, is a concept near and dear to me - as these are the perfect foods to sustain health over weeks or months - the perfect conjunction of snack food meeting three square meals per day, especially as one can eat all three daily meals in bed easily while reading, like any civilized being desires. Other...lesser...beings attempt to scale the slopes of Mt. Everest, or delve the depths of disease-filled jungles... I salute them... while reading of their adventures, and studying the peculiar mental aberrations that drove them in their desire to do such things. And as they faced frostbite and malaria in the unkempt areas of the world, I shall face the near-certain danger and discomfort of having to sleep on razor-sharp cracker crumbs every night of my adult life. This is the true "White Man's Burden" that Kipling spoke of. ;-) Pat >I'm really surprised that some of the "old boys" here didn't come up >with the Doctor Who kits that have been done over the years; >particularly in regards to Daleks (numerous in both injected-molded and >resin). Were they ever brought over to the States, back in the day? Man, if Airfix had gotten Aurora interested in Who, we might have a whole line of Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Silurians, even a Hermaphroditic Hexapod, possibly even in the same scale! I read somebody's web page where he was excited to find a cache of small role-playing miniature Daleks that worked out to 1/32. He immediately set them to exterminate his tanks and soldiers. We in 1/72 need the love, too. Although at that scale, I suppose it would just be two halves to glue together and cut bits of wire for the gun, eyestalk, and plunger. >As far as to Wallace and Gromit: >http://www.internetmodeler.com/2000/january/first-looks/airfix_wallace.htm [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >profound implications of that statement to his near future regarding >potential space travel. Gromit on that model train setup as it runs out of control, grabs a box of spare parts and lays track like mad just in front of the engine. >Other...lesser...beings attempt to scale the slopes of Mt. Everest, or >delve the depths of disease-filled jungles... I salute them... while >reading of their adventures, and studying the peculiar mental >aberrations that drove them in their desire to do such things. When the man said he climbed the mountain "because it was there," the philosopher replied, "Funny, that's the same reason the rest of us went around it." Signature-Jack > Were they ever brought over to the States, back in the day? > > Man, if Airfix had gotten Aurora interested in Who, we might have > a whole line of Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Silurians, even a > Hermaphroditic Hexapod, possibly even in the same scale! > First time I ever saw Dr. Who were the Tom Baker episodes on our PBS channel in the early/mid 1990's. So American modelers would have been confused by the kits with no background in seeing the series. Airfix apparently has the rights to the whole franchise now, so we will probably see more kits from them. It's surprising more kits weren't made over the decades the series in Britain, as Airfix would have cleaned up on them. "Thunderbirds" would have been another hot sales item, but Airfix seems to have missed that also, only doing the Angel Interceptor from Captain Scarlet and the Space 1999 kits. Look how AMT cleaned up on Star Trek. I don't know if it's still the case, but the original AMT TV Enterprise kit was holder of the longest unbroken production run for a model kit ever back in the 1990's, with even AMT not being completely sure how many had been made during its near thirty year long production run. Aurora also made them for the Canadian and Europian markets. There's a history of that kit here: http://www.culttvman2.com/dnn/tabid/74/ctl/ArticleView/mid/408/articleId/6/Defau lt.aspx I must have had that kit around six times, easy. Pat > > Were they ever brought over to the States, back in the day? > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Pat And how many more were purchased for kit bashing into some of the other vessels? I have at least a dozen, both AMT and Polar Lights.... On Apr 29, 8:23 pm, Pat Flannery <flan...@daktel.com> wrote: > Jack Bohn wrote: > > Were they ever brought over to the States, back in the day? [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >And how many more were purchased for kit bashing into some of the >other vessels? I have at least a dozen, both AMT and Polar Lights.... As I may have mentioned on a previous occassion, the combination of juvenile modelling skills coupled with that lousy kit insured that each and every build of mine aligned about as well as the beat up onscreen model (Constellation?) that got eaten up by the planet killer. In space, weightlessness suggests those long warp nacelles torquing on those struts shouldn't be a problem - but here on Terra Firma under the 9.8 grav constant - it's a problem! WmB > In space, weightlessness suggests those long warp nacelles torquing on those > struts shouldn't be a problem - but here on Terra Firma under the 9.8 grav > constant - it's a problem! > Wasn't half as bad as getting the nacelles aligned right on the AMT movie version. _Way_ too small of pylon attachments to the engineering hull and heavy warp nacelles. Pat > > In space, weightlessness suggests those long warp nacelles torquing on those > > struts shouldn't be a problem - but here on Terra Firma under the 9.8 grav [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Pat A friend tried this and it's worked so far. He made a mush of birdshot and white glue and troweled it into the nacelles at the front over the pylon attachments. This altered the CoG to the area over the attachment and the nacelles seemed less likely to twist away. >>> Were they ever brought over to the States, back in the day? >> [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > And how many more were purchased for kit bashing into some of the > other vessels? That actually happened in the original series. An AMT kit was used as an effects model to represent the USS Constellation in "The Doomsday Machine". The decals were simply chopped and rearranged to give a registry number of NCC-1017 rather than the Enterprise's NCC-1701. SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. >> Were they ever brought over to the States, back in the day? >> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > >Pat i first saw john pertwee as the dr on boston tv in the late 60's. we quoted dialogue until monty python came along. saw others in ks, mo, and ca during the 70's. what part of east bumfuck were you in? > i first saw john pertwee as the dr on boston tv in the late 60's. > we quoted dialogue until monty python came along. > saw others in ks, mo, and ca during the 70's. what part of east > bumfuck were you in? > North Dakota...if there's a bright shining center to the universe, then North Dakota is the state it's farthest from. :-) Pat >> Were they ever brought over to the States, back in the day? >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >First time I ever saw Dr. Who were the Tom Baker episodes on our PBS >channel in the early/mid 1990's. Saw Tom Baker in the early '80s. Lima, Ohio rules!!! ...or is it cheating that I watched it on WOR out of New York, that was trying to become another "Superstation," and got on our cable system? It was less than a decade later that our PBS station picked them up... I hear tell big cities on the coasts got John Pertwee in the '70s. >So American modelers would have been confused by the kits with no >background in seeing the series. I was thinking that the Dalek might be an interesting enough shape and kit to try going it alone. The Cybermen and maybe the Sontarrans are also nearly as interesting as the Metaluna Mutant from "This Island Earth" (if Aurora had gone on to do the Metaluna Mutant), and certainly better than the Mole People (if Aurora had gone on to do the Mole People). Oddly, a "hero" kit of the Doctor -- in any regeneration -- would have been a no-sell. Ah! You've jogged a memory I was working on since Mobius Models released the Fantastic Voyage cartoon ship: Something better known from the model kit than the show. In the Early '80s, Revell brought over Japanese kits of robots and walking -sometimes human-shaped- vehicles. They were from various sources, some tie-ins to a Japanese show called Macross. A little while later, an entertainment company decided to adapt Macross and a few other Japanese cartoons to something that could be shown weekday afternoons. Revell made a deal for them to use Revell's copyright name for the kit line as the title for the resulting show: Robotech. Signature-Jack >>> Were they ever brought over to the States, back in the day? >>> [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] >Revell's copyright name for the kit line as the title for the >resulting show: Robotech. did you know the easter family in lima? 2 bros are the ones left. one of which was an awesome dj who taught me much. this island earth was a great novel. forgot the author. >>Saw Tom Baker in the early '80s. Lima, Ohio rules!!! >> >did you know the easter family in lima? 2 bros are the ones left. one of which >was an awesome dj who taught me much. No, I don't think so... If they know groamy, I went to high school with him. >this island earth was a great novel. forgot the author. I want to say the guy who also wrote Colossus: The Forbin Project, but I can't remember his name right now, either. Signature-Jack > some...@some.domain wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > -- > -Jack IMDb lists Raymond F. Jones as writing "This Island Earth" and a D.F. Jones for "Colossus" >> some...@some.domain wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >IMDb lists Raymond F. Jones as writing "This Island Earth" and a D.F. >Jones for "Colossus" tanks >> some...@some.domain wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >IMDb lists Raymond F. Jones as writing "This Island Earth" and a D.F. >Jones for "Colossus" I can never keep these Jones boys straight. Who's the one with a movie about him coming out this summer? Signature-Jack > >> some...@some.domain wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > -- > -Jack Indiana? :) >> >> some...@some.domain wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Indiana? :) tennesee tuxedo. >> >IMDb lists Raymond F. Jones as writing "This Island Earth" and a D.F. >> >Jones for "Colossus" [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Indiana? :) Ah, yes. Also with the middle initial F. Henry F. Jones, Jr.: "If you didn't want me to call myself Indiana, why did you name me 'Fort Wayne'?" :) Signature-Jack >>>Saw Tom Baker in the early '80s. Lima, Ohio rules!!! >>> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >I want to say the guy who also wrote Colossus: The Forbin >Project, but I can't remember his name right now, either. tanks >> Galactica 1980! > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Actually, Wallace's refrigerator piled high with cheddar cheese, and > his cupboards full of crackers, is a concept near and dear to me Indeed. I'm rather partial to cheese myself. SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. Enzo Matrix said the following on 29/04/2008 20:00: >>> Galactica 1980! >>> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Indeed. I'm rather partial to cheese myself. Was I wrong in throwing away the jelly mould covering the Easter egg from the W&G egg painting boxed kit that had been sitting in my attic all these years? It was orange and vac-formed in the shape of that rocket - but how much stuff can you keep? > Indeed. I'm rather partial to cheese myself. > You should have seen the thing they had down at the Hugo's #9 grocery store here in Jamestown today... the "Mammoth Cheese". A huge wheel of cheese of around 18" diameter by 12" deep (I would guess the whole chunk weighed around 30-40 pounds) they were selling chunks of it by weight. Although it was supposed to be some sort of mild Cheddar, it tasted a lot more like Colby from the sample I had. Pat > > Indeed. I'm rather partial to cheese myself. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Pat This past winter we had for the first time Wemsleydale! Shades of Wallace and Grommit! A semi-soft cheese with blueberries, it was delicious! >>> Indeed. I'm rather partial to cheese myself. >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Wallace and Grommit! A semi-soft cheese with blueberries, it was > delicious! Wensleydale is actually a crumbly cheese, not semi-soft. In its natural state it doesn't come with blueberries in it. Try and get some without any sort of contamination at all ;-) It is wonderful stuff. There is an oak-smoked version and a blue version, both of which are also excellent. And if you are very, very lucky you might be able to get a Wensleydale made with ewes' milk. SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. Enzo Matrix said the following on 30/04/2008 16:22: >>>> Indeed. I'm rather partial to cheese myself. >>> You should have seen the thing they had down at the Hugo's #9 grocery [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > And if you are very, very lucky you might be able to get a Wensleydale made > with ewes' milk. Maybe they Cheddared the thing! I'd love to have tasted the various Cheddar cheese flavours from around the UK before WWII when they 'utility' typed it. As to the W&G idea, put in a geared down motor in the base of the rabbit catcher and you've got a little toy that you can stare at for ages. Look for the Blackpool ride image and click 'previous'; <http://www.wallaceandgromit.com/characters/wallace.html> > As to the W&G idea, put in a geared down motor in the base of the > rabbit catcher and you've got a little toy that you can stare at for > ages. Is this something related to the W&G team?: http://modelstories.free.fr/news/News2008_ARFX_WHO_P/img1.jpg Pat >> As to the W&G idea, put in a geared down motor in the base of the >> rabbit catcher and you've got a little toy that you can stare at for [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Pat same production crew. >> As to the W&G idea, put in a geared down motor in the base of the >> rabbit catcher and you've got a little toy that you can stare at for >> ages. > > Is this something related to the W&G team?: > http://modelstories.free.fr/news/News2008_ARFX_WHO_P/img1.jpg Shaun the Sheep. It's a kids' show also produced by Aardman Animations. Shaun is the only character who appeared in any of the W&G fillums. Although it is supposed to be a kids' show, it is utterly hilarious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_the_sheep SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. > This past winter we had for the first time Wemsleydale! Shades of > Wallace and Grommit! A semi-soft cheese with blueberries, it was > delicious! > Not much call for it around these parts, sir....but we do have some rather runny Brie. ;-) Stilton is still my all-time fave - a friend orders a small wheel of it every Christmas. >> This past winter we had for the first time Wemsleydale! Shades of >> Wallace and Grommit! A semi-soft cheese with blueberries, it was >> delicious! > > Not much call for it around these parts, sir....but we do have some > rather runny Brie. ;-) I don't care how ******* runny it is. Hand it over with all speed! > Stilton is still my all-time fave - a friend orders a small wheel of > it every Christmas. Blue or white Stilton? :-D SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. > >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I don't care how ******* runny it is. Hand it over with all speed! > Oops...cat got it. > Blue or white Stilton? > Blue Stilton... it only comes out of the English caves for export near Christmas. You have no idea how good this stuff is unless you've actually tasted it. Its taste is impossible to do justice to by description; but picture a mixture between Havarti, Cheddar, and Blue Cheese. Let me put it this way... the night my friend first brought over the wheel of around five pounds weight for Christmas, and we split it right down the middle, we ate around a pound of it before the night was over, and both finished the rest off inside of two days later. They call it "The King Of Cheeses"... and I always thought was a exaggeration, and that the greatest cheese would be perfectly aged and matured Brie....but that has _nothing_ on the Blue Stilton. The Blue Stilton is _it_. Remember the best tasting cheese you've ever had, and kick it up by a order of magnitude. If cheese is an addiction (let's face it...it is), then this stuff is Black Tar Heroin. :-) It's the platinum meter bar of cheeses they keep in the vault at Geneva, against which all other cheeses are measured. This sounds way over-the-top, but eat some sometime...then try to stop eating it as you wake up during the night to go to the bathroom, and consider "Well..as long as I'm up...and that cheese is just sitting there in the fridge... maybe just a little more of it could do no harm. In fact, around 1/4 pound of it might be just the thing for a midnight snack, and prevent it from getting all dried out and moldy and wasting it by letting it get too old. Now, where are those Club Crackers?" Pat >>>> This past winter we had for the first time Wemsleydale! Shades of >>>> Wallace and Grommit! A semi-soft cheese with blueberries, it was [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Oops...cat got it. Has he? >> Blue or white Stilton? > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > and wasting it by letting it get too old. Now, where are those Club > Crackers?" LOL I think that Blue Stilton is definitely an acquired taste. It's not for everyone - some people find it far too scary. But yu are right about the qualities of the cheese. Not only is it strong, but there is a creamy texture and a wonderful mild aftertaste. SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. >>>>> This past winter we had for the first time Wemsleydale! Shades of >>>>> Wallace and Grommit! A semi-soft cheese with blueberries, it was [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] >qualities of the cheese. Not only is it strong, but there is a creamy >texture and a wonderful mild aftertaste. btw, black tar heroin is garbage. the real sh.t is the white powder from china. after all, sid died of an od of china white. a week later there was a ny band called china white. it is often packaged with a skull and crossbones to tout it's potencey. it's sick, but after a few od's, brands become highly sought. no, i don't shovel sh.t, i just did counseling for a bit. too sad..... >> >>> [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > >Pat you guys made me bust out the python cheese shop.....it was later parodied in a kids next door episode. both are hilarious. >>>>> This past winter we had for the first time Wemsleydale! Shades of >>>>> Wallace and Grommit! A semi-soft cheese with blueberries, it was [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > parodied in > a kids next door episode. both are hilarious. Venezuelan beaver cheese? Japanese Sage Derby? :-D SignatureEnzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. >>>>>> This past winter we had for the first time Wemsleydale! Shades of >>>>>> Wallace and Grommit! A semi-soft cheese with blueberries, it was [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > >:-D swiss gaurd poofter yellow? >>>mholt wrote: >>> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Galactica 1980! That wasn't a sequel - that was ABC and Glen Larson humiliating themselves in front of audiences numbering in the tens of dozens. WmB >>mholt wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> > worst sequel tv series ever! "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" is one of those turkeys that could only be improved upon if they chose to remake it today. They would be hard pressed to find anyone that would defend the integrity of the original. It's an interesting enough concept. Forget what I just wrote - I just imagined it and today they would cast |
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