unbuiltnautilus
Active Member
Greetings from Portsmouth, Old Hampshire, England. I have been lurking about the forum for quite some time, and feel now is the time to start putting a little bit back.
I have been model making since about 1976, before that it was mostly a tree gobbling machine from Thunderbirds, entirely out of Lego, sitting in front of an open fire, round my Grannies house. Plus I wrote up a very amusing story about loosing the little plastic Thunderbird 4 from inside my Dinky diecast Thunderbird 2, when I was six, so I am told anyway. ( Spoiler, it was in my slippers! ) Therefore, I blame Gerry Anderson for everything. I also thank Gerry Anderson for everything ( not forgetting Derek Meddings and all the folks at ILM, although that was just a bit later ).
I am currently dividing my time between radio control and static modelling. Currently in build on the radio control side are the following; 68" Type VII U-Boat, 53" HMS Snowflake, WWII Flower Class Corvette, 100" SS Ohio Tanker ( of PEDESTAL Convoy fame ) and a number of 1/16 scale Shermans.
Of more interest to this forum; Revell Star Destroyer Diorama, T-Rex and Spinosaurus about to tear chunks out of each other, and just completed, this one.
I have owned one of the Product Enterprise diecast Eagle Transporters for years. Bored of occasionally dusting it and nothing else, I decided to mount it in a diorama base. I had purchased a vac formed moonscape/battle base, for the job. Problem. The surface was too lumpy to land the model on. Landing on a column of jets, produced by cotton wool, has been high on my list for ages. Checking out the series however, they used CO2 jets to kick up the dust, but no smoke like those on Thunderbirds.
Watching the opening titles of Space 1999, there is a one second fast cut of an Eagle, struck by glowing lightning bolts from the Moons surface. Excellent, that will do, where can I buy lightning bolts??!
I have been model making since about 1976, before that it was mostly a tree gobbling machine from Thunderbirds, entirely out of Lego, sitting in front of an open fire, round my Grannies house. Plus I wrote up a very amusing story about loosing the little plastic Thunderbird 4 from inside my Dinky diecast Thunderbird 2, when I was six, so I am told anyway. ( Spoiler, it was in my slippers! ) Therefore, I blame Gerry Anderson for everything. I also thank Gerry Anderson for everything ( not forgetting Derek Meddings and all the folks at ILM, although that was just a bit later ).
I am currently dividing my time between radio control and static modelling. Currently in build on the radio control side are the following; 68" Type VII U-Boat, 53" HMS Snowflake, WWII Flower Class Corvette, 100" SS Ohio Tanker ( of PEDESTAL Convoy fame ) and a number of 1/16 scale Shermans.
Of more interest to this forum; Revell Star Destroyer Diorama, T-Rex and Spinosaurus about to tear chunks out of each other, and just completed, this one.
I have owned one of the Product Enterprise diecast Eagle Transporters for years. Bored of occasionally dusting it and nothing else, I decided to mount it in a diorama base. I had purchased a vac formed moonscape/battle base, for the job. Problem. The surface was too lumpy to land the model on. Landing on a column of jets, produced by cotton wool, has been high on my list for ages. Checking out the series however, they used CO2 jets to kick up the dust, but no smoke like those on Thunderbirds.
Watching the opening titles of Space 1999, there is a one second fast cut of an Eagle, struck by glowing lightning bolts from the Moons surface. Excellent, that will do, where can I buy lightning bolts??!