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Star Fleet Saturday 25 2020.03.20Okay, it's nearly Saturday and that means... You know what it means! I got a few more of these French comic books delivered... These are actually pretty good. I put up the cover scan of volume 1 the other week. Here are volumes 2 and 3, plus the first of the two "album" editions, which is just a compilation of the first two volumes. I'm lookin' for volume 4 (there are only 4 in total) and the second 'album', but they are playing hard-to-get at the moment. (I only managed to get the third one by buying a collection of 3 and, thereby, getting duplicate copies of volumes 1 and 2). Phase Pistol 2020.03.18Watched Star Trek: Enterprise a little while ago... This may not be a popular opinion but I thought it was a good series of Star Trek, albeit with a few rather annoying problems. It was action-packed and the tone was at least sufficiently idealistic that it felt like a believable half-way point between the modern day and the 23rd Century. Anyway, around that same time, I pulled out an old art asylum phase pistol (they blew one of these up as a prop in the show, to illustrate the overload feature without destroying an original prop). They made the muzzle bright orange on these, which totally killed any sense of realism, so I took some Gundam paint and oil markers to colour the muzzle silver, colour the pins at the front bronze where the top cover hinges, and weather and dirty it down, so that it looked a bit more credible. Star Fleet Saturday 24 2020.03.13
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Babylon 5: Into the Fire Soundtrack 2020.03.04
Snub Pistol 2020.03.01I spent a slightly hair-raising few hours this week trying to bring Emilee; my triforce Gears of War pistol back to a more presentable condition after its accident in December. I went at it with some model glue, the metallic t-cut for my Forester and a GM20 gundam oil marker. It's not perfect because a lot of the cracks in the polystone were quite complex but it's a damn side sweeter than paying $2,000 (!!!) + shipping + duty for a mint boxed replacement. 2019.12.22 | 19:00: Star Fleet Saturday 22 2020.02.29It's Saturday and that means Star Fleet... I was talking with Matsu Kami about the French comics here: www.xbomber.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11456 The four books put a nice new spin on the first four episodes of the show. I'm putting together the full set to improve xbomber.co.uk's coverage of them but it's taking quite a while ... Thunder in Paradise - New DVDs 2020.02.27I had 4 discs burned from TV-recorded VHS of Thunder in Paradise; which is simultaneously the best and worst television show in the whole of the world. I left them sitting on my desk and they completely bleached with the light so that none of my drives could read them. Anyway, the ioffer website where I got them disappeared and I found reliablemediastore.com who were true to their name. It seems to be from the same VHS source because it includes all the network "coming next" segments, which had great extended music. Best TV show Worst TV show ... in the world Anyway, this time I'm backing it up to hard disk. Martin Bower's World of Models 2020.02.22
Star Fleet Saturday 21 2020.02.21Somewhere in the world, it's already Star Fleet Saturday … :) Here is Matsu Kami's astonishing model of the Alliance Battlecruiser. This project was started in October 2016 and completed this year. You can find out more about the process on the SFXB Forum: http://www.xbomber.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1317 I pulled together all the images here: http://www.xbomber.co.uk/?dir=Star+Fleet%2FFan+Work+-+Models%2FMatsukami+-+Battlecruiser The model is huge and features a mirror on its base to display the details on its underside. I really liked what Matsukami said about how he overcame the difficulties in making it: "Many hours spent in this hobby, many going back because the result did not suit me. But at no time did I discourage myself, I had faith."
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