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Showing posts with label Star Wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Star Wars. Show all posts
Wednesday, 9 October 2024

OK .. There may "just" be a case for AI .. Star Wars: A New Hope (1950s Version)

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I cannot describe it .. you just have to watch it! (see link below .. "In a Galaxy Far, Far Away"):  https://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Sunday, 21 January 2024

Random Sci-Fi Stuff: From the Photo Archive Bucket .. Dust Bucket World

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The usefulness of some of the Revell Star Wars spin-off range 15mm(ish) miniatures is shown with this beautiful "Combat Shuttle". ...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Sci-Fi Additions

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Post 'Star Gruntz' it was time to make a quick pass through the "old discarded toy-box" or rather the toys that the wife t...
Sunday, 3 December 2017

Sci-Fi Project: The Yaeter (Part 3)

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After the Airfix While Satin highlight I thought the (newly painted) Yeater were looking too parade ground shiny so I decided to give them a...
Sunday, 19 November 2017

Big Boys .. this is just a simulation (or rather a "painting exercise") .. not the start of a collection.

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Tim Gow do not get excited I am NOT going 54mm "that is the way of madness" I was only practising some 'painting techniques...
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Sunday, 9 April 2017

Revell TIE Fighter (Completed)

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It is nice to finish a project .. completely. I assembled the model back in 2016, then promptly decided it was too good for the kids to play...
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Thursday, 27 October 2016

X-Wings: MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

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Just cracked open this starter level X-Wings game (only about ten years after everybody else around me had played it and raved about it). So...
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Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Micro Machines .. (another) cheap impulse buy

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Passing time in "Home Bargains" is always a case of "can you spot the hidden wargame potential in 'end of line' disco...
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Sunday, 28 February 2016

TIE Fighter

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Following on from seeing "The Force Awakens" my Sci-Fi hankerings were ignited and I resumed the "paused" Revell TIE fig...
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Thursday, 14 January 2016

Star Wars X-Wing Xmas Gift

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One of the coolest things I got from Santa was a Resistance X-Wing (see below): Although it was clip-together it was technically in m...
Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Imperial TIE Interceptor: Star Wars

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One of my favourite pastimes is clueless meandering through piles of model boxes in Model Shops, the more chaotic and disorganised a pile th...
Saturday, 25 April 2015

Painting Tray

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A variety of toys on table (see below): Fairey Battle (mostly made and with it's base coat of paint) Renaissance Crossbowmen (Pai...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2015

Er, Lego Spiderman and Wonder Woman?

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I know, I know, it has to be seen to be believed, "How Far From Austerlitz?" as Alistair Horne would or could have said! (see belo...
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Thursday, 18 December 2014

I Didn't Mean To Do All This Sci-Fi Stuff (Honest): Star Wars Republic Attack Shuttle

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It sort of just happened! Honest! Like a bolt of lightning from the blue. See this kit was innocently lurking around in the loft minding its...
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Wednesday, 17 December 2014

X-Wings: The Coolest of the Cool ('Red 2' and 'Red 5')

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So I got myself another X-Wing fighter and finally put it together. I can now field 'Red 2' and 'Red 5' twin section (see be...
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Monday, 15 December 2014

Star Wars: Jedi Star Fighters

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In the beginning (as in the Star Wars prequels, Epsodes I, II and III ) there were the 'original' Jedi Star Fighters: Obi-Wan_Kenobi...
Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Gruntz meets Star Wars

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I found that when I inspected the "mountain of miscellaneous plastic" in the loft, I actually had more than the three Star Wars Re...
Friday, 5 December 2014

Gruntz Force "The Terra Legion"

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The Gruntz army of 40 figures (troopers), safely out of the reach of small children and animals on a bathroom glass shelf, which seemed a su...
Friday, 10 October 2014

Star Wars

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The Millenium Falcon rides again (yipee), courtesy of a Revell snap-together mini-kit (see below): The excuse to snap this together w...
Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Lego: Star Wars and Lego City builds

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One of my "summer projects" was to sort out my eldest son's Lego collection (he has lots, but they are in pieces and it is all...