Group shots, the top row is half Dr.
Whatsit and his Kaled's; nothing to do with Dan the Man who battles the evil
Treen boss - 'The Mekon'.
From the left the top row shows Dalek from a Dr Who Advent Calendar (which I
think is the same little silicon-rubber one that The Toad sent to the Blog many
years ago?); A metal 'first Doctor' painted by Terra', a home-printed (or - I'm
told - a son-in-law's-home printed-) 3D-model TARDIS, and a 5-inch model of the
First Doctor (played by one William Hartnell), I hate to say it but Terranova's in
danger of dating himself with his dateable Doctor-fandom!
Then we're on to the Meat & Two-veg' of
the post; Dan Dare, and start with a
nice paint-conversion of a Marx pilot
from the late version (hollowed-out base) 45mm Air Force set, A 3½-inch GI Joe figure
painted-up as Dan, both matt-painted by Brian, with - either side of a PVC
Thompson (or is it Thomson?)
figure from Tin Tin - two
gloss-pointed Auburn Rubber
policemen, again by Brian but in the 'old toy soldier' style. Finally; the
little guy half-seen is a Unicorn Models
RAF Pilot also painted-up as Dan Dare
. . . it's lucky, but space pilots of the future all wear 1950's military pilot's
gear!
The lower line-up; again from the left
consists of Professor Peabody, a Treen and a [slimer than I remember him]
Digby, these are solid-metal castings of the old Crescent hollow-cast figures (again painted by Mr. Berke), then we
have five metal copies of the Eaglewall
figures (these are supplied by Good
Soldiers as unpainted castings) From a red Dan Dare himself, and
carrying-on to the right; Sir Hubert Guest and three generic 'Spacefleet'
officers - think the Spacefleet
equivalents of Star Trek's red
PJ-wearing Ensign Smith!
Close-ups the painted casting in Brian's Dan Dare collection; the more observant
among you will have clocked that Sir Hubert Guest and Dan dare are the same
casting, but with Sir Hubert's arm moved to reflect the movable nature of the
plastic original.
This is the boxed set, also available from
Ron Good's firm as a pre-painted set of seven casts with an aditional Mekon,
not released in plastic by Eaglewall!
From the top left to the bottom right we have:
-
Commander Lex O'Malley
-
Digby (another slim one!)- Dan Dare
- Sir Hubert Guest
- Professor Jocelyn Peabody
- The Mekon
- Cadet 'Flamer' Spry
On the left we have close-ups of the Dan Dare half of the upper row, and on
the right a comparison between the Good
Soldiers Dan (out of the cabinet) and Brian's home-painted sculpt from the
same source, the Good Soldier's
painted version has an other ranks silver helmet (shock horror!), while Brian's
has been painted with the proper gold one!
Seen here at Small Scale World before; Brain also beefed up his 'Planet-side' Spacefleet command staff with a quick, flat-matt paint-conversion of some rack-toy policemen (from Jaru's 55-piece Emergency Rescue Police Big Bag set) into Spacefleet officers for space-port security, hunting-out Treens and probably a bit of Ensign Smithery . . . aaahrrrrh!
Thanks again Brian!
4 comments:
I am happy to date myself with my preference for William Hartnell as The Doctor. The charactor was both mysterious and devious, the perfect anti-hero. The reincarnations slowly reduced the mystery to farce.
The charactor when re launched portrayed by Christopher Eccleston played as drama not farce but with successive reincarnations reduced to being gibberish. During the Peter Capaldi version I finally gave up watching, his Scottish brogue in conversation with a Scots actress playing The Master was unintelligible.
I'm with Terranova on Dr Who, which probably dates me too-
re. the very nice models, I thought Treens were meant to be taller than humans?
I'm just saying . . . if you know what I mean . . . I'm a Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker kind of guy . . . younger, fitter. . . !!!! HeeHeeHee!
I rather gave-up when the Vet got the gig! I kept expecting Robert Hardy to turn up and show him how to do it properly, with rubber gauntlets! "You've just got to be firm with a Dalek, get stuck in there, stop pussy-footing about..."
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Andy B, if you want Treens at the correct scale to Dan & Co go to IRREGULAR MINIATURES.CO.UK and check out Retro Science-fiction
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