News Displaying 41 to 50 of 102 This is an interesting Star Fleet fan illustration by Ricardo Andrade.
I don't think I've ever seen a Star Fleet fan artwork done in this style before.
I would be interested to know how it was done. It looks to be a traditional painting.
It's interesting how some fan artworks focus on the machines and action from the show and some focus on the human character aspect like this one. I found this illustration of Dai-X by Jerry Bennett, who did this for a friend of his.
Very nice style, would be good to see some more of this - maybe even a colour version. I found this article from Anime Network UK over Nitter which talks about Miniarts' X-Bomber model, which looks really nice.
They now do it in the beige/brown colours that the studio model was actually painted in, or in the white and grey, as it appeared under the show's blue lighting (and how it was presented at the 2022 Expo in Tokyo).
Miniart's eBay listings also show that it's available in two scales. This illustration of Commander Makara is by Go Nagai and features in the Go Nagai Fan Club Associate Magazine "Makai Tsuushin" (Demon Realm Communications).
The fan club was formed in 1970 and issued a number of publications alongside Makai Tsuushin.
The Makara illustration features in the December 31, 1979 instalment (S54).
You can find a lot more information as well as lots of nice images on this page of the Go Nagai and the World of BBR site (mazingerz.com).
There is something slightly screwy about the JPG image of Makara from the above website.
PHP won't resize it and Photoshop won't open it either, so I copied and re-saved it as PNG. Thanks to Keith Martin for sending me some nice shots of the production images from the X-Bomber Exhibition 2022 Pictorial Record,
I see that this book that was made as a companion to the 2022 Exhibition in Tokyo is still available for sale.
One day, I might do some scans from the book to expand the site's behind-the-scenes images.
With the book still being available from GoodSmile, I'm not in a hurry to scan anything from this book at the moment. I came across this interesting article on Sixties City, which is a fascinating site: a real labour of love by its creator.
This article lists the later Gerry Anderson productions - some of which made it all the way to fruition, while some didn't.
What I found very interesting was the 1984 T-Force attempt to reboot Thunderbirds.
In particular, the base was a huge carrier sub.
While we never got to see this in connection with anything to do with Thunderbirds, I like how the idea was held onto and used later on in Firestorm with the Ocean Storm, which is a similar, huge carrier sub, but which is also a bit tidier, more streamlined and less sprawling than the concept shown on this page.
Dear Star Fleeters,
I set the upcoming Star Fleet Teams for Tuesday 28th April at 8PM (UK).
Please check out the Star Fleet Teams page for the meeting link.
Anyone who wishes to join is welcome to join.
We will probably be chatting about ... Star Fleet and other things. Keith was kind enough to provide me with these photos over email.
I particularly like the silver sword on this action figure.
Also pictured, are the Mark model kit of the Alliance battlecruiser, the Dynamite Action Dai-X figure, as well as the Moderoid Dai-X kit.
It would be great to see more pictures in future if this collection expands. New article by Suzy on Ben's X Blogger site ...
It's great to see a walkthough of the build on this model.
The article has very good photos.
You can get great results out of this kit without painting it.
I've been wanting to get one of these for a while.
But trouble in finding the time to build it has always been the off-putting factor at the moment. You can always find these Moderoid kits relatively cheaply on FROMJAPAN.
I don't think you'd need to paint the entire model like I'd though about doing originally. I think it would be fine to leave it mostly as-is and touch up a few areas with Gundam markers.
I have a feeling that using a black oil marker with the red/white to do panel lines might look a little excessive. Grey or brown will probably be the way to do it. I came across this interesting page on the website of design company: Mister.S.
Firestorm - Mister S
It shows a lot of graphics for unreleased toys that would have been based on the reboot of the Gerry Anderson show: Firestorm.
It's nice how they planned to re-introduce the Thunderbolt, although the design isn't as striking as in the original show.
I like the Blizzard vehicle as well, which is clearly the surrogate to the Combat Cruiser in the original show.
It looks to me as though the graphics were made using photos of the unfinished Ocean Storm carrier sub. The conning tower and various details on the top seem to be missing.
In any case, the images are really well put together and, if Anderson Entertainment got the money to do a full-on attempt at re-making the series, I'm sure it would turn out well.
On the other hand, one thing that Anderson Entertainment could do to present Firestorm to a Western audience is to see if the rights could be bought out from the (presumably) Japanese rights holders.
It would be a great series to see released in decent, albeit not necessarily HD quality, with either proper English subtitles or a well-produced dub into English.
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