Showing posts with label sci-fi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sci-fi. Show all posts
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Saturday Film Club: How Star Trek's Original Phaser Prop Was Built

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Film and TV props, especially older ones, fascinate me. Once, when looking at some from Red Dwarf , I commented that they were more basic th...
Monday, August 03, 2026

Smallspace haul

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  If I'm honest, Smallspace was a lot about resisting temptation this year.Even I have worked out I really don't need any more plast...
Sunday, August 02, 2026

Smallspace 2026

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Check me out! I am full qualified to dock a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS! OK, a few caveats. I docked it on a simulator provided by the Briti...
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Saturday, June 27, 2026

Saturday Film Club: An Interview With Brian Johnson (1939-2026)

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Saturday, August 02, 2025

Saturday Film Club: Doctor Who: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Daleks

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I love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* , and I love Dr Who, so this fan-produced mashup is right up my street.  Talking of which, ...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Smallspace 2025

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It's time for the annual sci-fi fest in Buckinghamshire. There were Daleks, full-size and model, replica Anderson puppets, and all sorts...
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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Saturday Film Club: The Making of Captain Scarlet: Gerry and Sylvia Anderson Remember

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Stand by for action! OK, I know that was Stingray, but this is an interesting documentary about making Captain Scarlet, which doesn't re...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Saturday Film Club: 500 Dr Who miles

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This is just 3 minutes 41 second of feelgood fun.  Also, doesn't it take a lot of people to make TV?
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Saturday Film Club: Hand drawn CGI: Animating the Terrahawks Title Sequence

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Some traditonal pre-computer animation, or how you make computer graphics by hand. Fascinating, and amazingly crude, but effective.
Saturday, November 02, 2024

Saturday Film Club: The Story Of The Real FAB 1!

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The story of the real, iconic, pink Rolls-Royce, used to promote the Thunderbirds films. This film covers bit the original, proper one, and ...
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Saturday, September 07, 2024

A BIG Eagle transporter

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Some projects, I just have to doff my cap to. The Eagle transporter from the TV show Space 1999 , is the bext sci-fi spaceship ever. There h...
Sunday, August 04, 2024

Smallspace 2024

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The thing about the Smallspace show, is that some very interesting people take stands there to show off their models.  See this "Starbu...
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Saturday, January 27, 2024

Saturday Film Club: 1980: The SCI-FI Models of MAT IRVINE

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While I've always been a fan of Mat Irvine's model making, this feature is something special. For a atart, the style is very much of...
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Saturday, December 02, 2023

Saturday Film Club: Britains Space

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I remember this toy, at least from mail order catalogues. Never particually interested, but this is a nice dose of nostaligia.  Kudos for us...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

Smallspace 2023

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Yet again, Hanslope Village Hall hosted a superb sci-fi show. Loads to see, including the entertaining Avenue Who, a cross between the Muppe...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Saturday Film Club - An Eagle obsessive

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I've always said that the Eagle transporter from Space 1999 is my favourite space ship. It just looks right - a real space truck, just w...
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Saturday, July 01, 2023

Saturday Film Club: The Special Weapons Dalek

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Not your usual nerdy Dr Who stuff here. OK, maybe a little, but there is an awful lot covering the development and construction of a new typ...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Saturday Film Club: The Girder Bridge and Thunderbirds

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Sit back, and enjoy this exploration of the uses the humble Airfix Girder Bridge was put to in Thunderbirds. If that sounds nerdy, it is. An...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

National Film and Sci-fi museum

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  While my modelling recently has been non-existant, I have taken a few trips out and about. Sometimes to places not involving trains! First...
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Saturday, August 13, 2022

Saturday Film Club: A 25 foot long Eagle

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I've mentioned in the past that my favourite space ship ever is the Eagle Transporter from Space 1999. One day, I'll get around to b...
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