Father’s Day is always a toy soldier day for me, as I associate my late Dad so much with our shared interest in toy soldiers.
Although hollow-cast lead figures were long gone from the family toy box by the early 1960s, my Dad took a keen interest in our growing family collection of old Lone Star, Beton and Crescent (bought from a neighbour) or the new 1970s plastics such as Airfix, Timpo and Matchbox figures …
Snowball fights and RAF Ground Crew (1:48) creep in as well.
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In which I got distracted for the rest of the day by some old broken 1960s Lone Star Harvey plastic figures and repaired and repainted them into Rebel snow troopers from Star Wars …
More turning bad puns and the word play in my head into AI slop, sorry design
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What happens if Dad’s Army writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft merged their 70s sitcom about a WW2 Jungle concert party It Ain’t Arf Hot Mum with late 1970s early 1980s Star Wars films?
And why don’t Imperious Snow or Storm Troopers have a marching band?
Rebel Alliance Snow troopers from the Battle of Hoth featured in the Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back are hard to come by in any affordable number at 1:32 or 54mm scale.
So a few more conversions are required to build their numbers.
Airfix Afrika Korps, plastic police figures, head and body swaps into some space grungy Rebel snow troopers.
Suitably Monochrome Space – 54mm SciFi gaming figures
Musing over my Close Little Space Wars / Not Quite Star Wars 54mm gaming project,
I have finally found proof of a dimly recalled childhood memory about not being able to afford to buy black and white silent film clip reels of Star Warsfor the home movie projector.
Ten pounds of saved pocket money c. 1978
A film clip (and projector) would have involved serious saving of pocket money, which I instead spent on toy soldiers or one new Star Wars action figure a month.
What would Star Wars have been like as an early Wellsian SciFi black and white silent film?
How would Star Wars have turned out if George Lucas had been making it as a silent film in the 1910s or 1920s?
A Mandalorian and Grogu Star Wars movie trailer glimpse of some new old Imperial Snow trooper ‘remnants’, a bit weathered and worn like my 54mm versions …
Having recently been converting Star Wars Rebel snow troopers out of WW2 Airfix figures, I was interested to read about how the Star Wars designers and armourers modified existing WW2 weapons into laser pistols and blasters for the film.
My recent Star Wars reading …
Apologies to my blog readers – This blog post is a day late as it was scheduled for yesterday, May The Fourth (go with you) or Happy International Star Wars Day. Alternatively, this post is almost three weeks early as this also happens again on May 25th, another Star Wars / Towel / Geek Pride Day!
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May the Fourth, a spurious excuse to show a photo of some of my battered play-worn first Star Wars figures collected c. 1977/78, which all started I think with R2-D2.
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