News Displaying 68 to 77 of 107 This would've been done last night, but I'd managed not to scan page 10.
With some of the pages, 'auto colour' had a positive effect, so there are some pages that are presented with and without photoslop's auto-colour enabled.
This is the first time that I'd looked at this instalment closely and it's interesting to see which parts of comic mirrored the TV series and where certain alterations were made...
- The appearance of Lamia's crashed ship on Mars is very different, more alien and striking.
- Prof Hagan looks a bit more heroic and I noticed that in this version, he is armed on entering the spacecraft.
- Certain aspects of the alien hardware are interesting, such as the armoured segments down the back of the Alliance catfish cruiser (p24).
- The style of the EDF missile launchers is significantly different and the manner in which they are destroyed is a bit more dramatic.
- General Kyle suddenly appears to wear a slighly different uniform and exhibits a different energy on p30.
- X-Impulse appears less like a wave or a pulse, and more like the lightning gun from Quake.
The scanning of volume 3 of the French comics is complete.
I have to go through and process them.
It would probably have been done by now, but I've been doing a playthrough of Descent 3, trying to explore all the levels.
Moon's Descendarium was very helpful for speeding up the process.
At the same time, Sectorgame hosts some great resources for Descent.
I got my Sidewinder force feedback controller set up on my desk upstairs next to the scanner for the first time in ages.
The two Starlog magazines have arrived at FromJapan's warehouse, but I have 60 days of storage there, so I might try and pick up one or two other items to consolidate with them for shipping.
I saw on youtube today that, last year, they'd found the models of two main missing characters from Tugs and brought them all together for display:
They found Top Hat! TUGS props reunited - YouTube At the same time, I've had a little bidding war to get copies of the Japanese Starlog magazines that contain some features on X Bomber.
We already have a really great scan of the poster featuring the characters from one issue, done by Vanessa: one of our forum veterans.
I seriously doubt that I'll be able to improve on that. I think the document was sent off to be scanned professionally.
In any case, I'll be able to see if there's anything else in the magazine about X Bomber, and I can get a better scan of the white-on-black Dai-X cutaway that's in the other issue, which is really just a larger variation of the one in the UK Fantastic Films magazine. The 1981 article on Star Fleet in Fantastic Films magazine, which is quite a nice article (especially given that it came over a year before the show arrived on television in the UK) has been re-scanned using the magazine mode that turned out useful in scanning the French comics.
My initial attempt was four years ago and the magazine has been sitting on a shelf since then and can now be filed away.
I'm not sure where I got the placeholder scans for the last 2 pages.
They were pretty good, if a little discoloured in places, but the new scans are a lot bigger and sharper.
A very small part of the big Dai-X illustration disappears into the spine of the magazine sadly.
I will try and scan it again next week, if I find time, to see if I can fix that, but the magazine may need the staples taking out and scanning as an individual page, which is not my first preference. Another year, another book of the French Star Fleet comics scanned ...
I think they turned out fine.
The dimensions of the images are not all the same, as some of the illustrations stick out of the normal bounds of the images on the page.
All images have been given auto contrast and tone in photoshop, which didn't seem to add much.
Auto colour has been applied in cases where it made the image brighter or more colourful.
Otherwise, the effects were unhelpful.
The ones with de-screening applied have been re-done.
I will try and do volume 3 by the end of January.
The method of using the magazine mode, rather than photo (which delivers great results, but expects a smaller document) should make the scanning of the remaining instalments, plus other magazines that I have lying around that bit less time-consuming. Well, the great Easter slug hunt that has taken all year is almost at an end, with only a few very hard-to-find slugs missing from our collection.
I saw someone on the stagnant demesne of reddit asking about an overview of what slugs were made by the original company that took up the license: Jakks Pacific.
I thought it wasn't a bad idea to make one so I put together all the product images from the archive pages of toywiz.com.
The first image covers waves 1-5 and there are separate images for waves 6 and 7, where the number of re-issues makes things a bit more complicated. I've been playing a bit of catch-up and have expanded Phil's folder with a lot of great artworks.
There are some Christmas themed ones, plus some new ones of the Alliance ships, which I think have come out really well.
At the same time, I'll be finishing off the scanning of second of the four French comic books this week. I've been tidying up my 'New Folder' on my desktop where things live until I decide where things are going on the site or elsewhere.
Things have been added all-over the site, including some Star Fleet video files from Nitter so it's worth having a tour around the site to see if you can find anything new.
I was sent this great image by Dan H, which google and tineye can't seem to source.
It may be from the X Bomber exhibition catalogue, but in any case is a fantastic image of the effects team that worked on X Bomber. I would like to congratulate Ben Page on finishing his review of each episode of Star Fleet and just in time for the next millenium new year.
This write-up is a great one as always, and particularly based. This board game was published in a 1980 edition of TV-Kun.
I think there must be a mistake at the source, since TV-Kun started doing X Bomber features in November 1980 and X Bomber was first broadcast in October.
It looks that it was folded down to quarter-size and included in one of the books.
I have all six TV-Kuns that had X Bomber features, but none of them came with this included. Published Feb 1980, Televi-kun
Illustration Size B3
Artist Masami Watanabe
Source Katayama Kotoku (Nitter)
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