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RoboCop 2 – Cain

Ahhh - you've got to love RoboCop! Cool characters and social satire - 'Dead or alive - you're coming with me'.   This is really more of an action figure than a traditional model kit. It has to be assembled, and the parts come on sprues like every other kit - but I assembled it without glue so that the figure can be positioned and taken apart. In spite of that it actually goies together really well, and I was really pleased with the finished result...

Thunderbirds ‘Fireflash’

One of the all-time classic Thunderbirds episodes - Series 1 Episode 5 - 'Trapped in the Sky'. The new supersonic airliner 'Fireflash' has a bomb hidden in its landing gear so they can't land conventionally.   Thunderbird 2 is dispatched for the first time with a cargo of 4 elevator cars so the plane can touch down on them instead.   A magic episode that I remember fondly from my childhood (I was just under two years old when it was released in 1965). It had everything - Thunderbird 2 (my...

Zombie Apocalypse Van

Built from a truly horrible snap-together Revell kit from the 70s - this van was originally a Charlie's Angels tie in.   Instead it became a post-apocalyptic zombie van, with metallic paint and deep-pile shag replaced with heavily rusted exterior, scratch built seats in the back and a great big zombie bar on the front.   Great fun to do - and not a Farrah Fawcett blonde flick in sight!...