what's your prized Captain Scarlet possession?

by **Marion** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:34 pm

Sorry Mary - the pic has gone again - just a Tripod logo.

There does seem to have been a glitch with the forum and some messages (mostly saying 'Test') have been removed for your continued enjoyment of the facility

Sadly that hasn't made the picture come back though...

by **Mary** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:54 pm

I've moved the Green pic to another source, that should solve the problem.

Here's a pic of another piece from the Action Jacksons, a head I used for another effort. The face looked familiar, and when I changed the hair color the resemblance became apparent:

by **Kambei** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:28 pm

That head is spot on. Did you do the rest of the figure?

by **Mary** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:53 pm

Kambei wrote:That head is spot on. Did you do the rest of the figure?

Oh, I definitely did. I even found a nicely-shaped piece of styrofoam insert for him to sit in; even though it was not round it gave a very good impression of a "command console" and even spun around on the table. :grin:

The rest of the figures are either long gone or buried somewhere in my old toys.

About the dolls: the only thing I remember I couldn't get or make were the caps. The black (no gray) underclothing was a 2-piece Spy outfit. The "vest" (and a perfectly-shaped crash helmet, to which I added some foam padding, a wire for a microphone and painted) came from an Air Force outfit. The "vest" is a painted Mae West so it is only good from the front, but it was all I had to go on, and besides the shoulders stuck up nicely. I don't remember if I made epaulets. The high boots were not painted, they were plastic actually molded in those colors, scrounged from several sources. I think the green ones came from Aquaman; there were also red (Superman), a perfect shade of blue (Batman?), white (winter gear) and black.

Green's head actually looked a little like him too; except for White's head, the other Caucasian guys didn't look like our guys at all. The blond doll if I remember was particularly bad. I don't think I tried a Captain Black doll. There were no female dolls in that series.

by **Carrie** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:58 pm

Like many an (original) fan - probably- all of my collection went into the great dustbin in the sky as well: my John Theydon books, my 33 RPM LP's. my annuals, my collection of Lady P's and my favorite dressing doll books of Rhapsody and Destiny.(Can anyone else remember these?)
I am slowly building up my collection back again...thank-you ladies..you know who you are...!

and this time...I'm keeping them SAFE!!!