News Displaying 80 to 89 of 99 The topic of the French comics came up the other day, which led onto the subject of how I long ago said that I would scan the second of the four books.
I'm about half-way through scanning the second book and I'll start to process that batch in photoshop.
The .co.uk domain has been renewed, as it does often come in useful for allowing people to connect to the server.
The lengths I had to go to, to get into the accounts area, were remarkable.
They've made it so secure now that nobody can get in, including the customers.
I have uploaded a new version of Suzy Jones' Star Fleet Trinity story.
I read the original and I couldn't find a problem with it, but this version is even better.
You can find it in the Fan Stories section.
At the same time, I finally got all the extensions needed to continue to work on X-Bomber the Game.
I've been quietly chipping away at the internal trains for the space fortress.
There are a lot of sprites for the different sorts of trains and their various segments, and getting the sprites to look right is taking some time. At the antiques shop in Powburn, they quite often have some interesting Gerry Anderson items.
I scanned these nice postcards from 2011, of which there are six.
The other two: Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, I'll scan when I have some time with my scanner. Congratulations to the Star Fleet facebook group!
They have racked up 1,600 members as of the other day, and I understand that the number has since gone up again to 1,700.
I think it's great that they're creating such interest in a show that's 45 years old and is streamed and televised nowhere.
Well, you can stream it from here. I found a nice, clean video of the radio/TV edit of Brian May's Star Fleet Project with a modest filesize on nitter.
It has been added to the Soundtracks part of the site. 
I found a few more re-creations of X-Bomber, created for the game: No Man's Sky, on the questionable realm of reddit. We're up to the write-up of the second-from-last episode of Star Fleet on X Blogger.
Another great write-up as always, I never noticed before that one of the EDF buildings has "Moscow" written on the side of it. Thanks to Dan H for letting me have some great images from Phil Base.
I can tell that a lot of effort has gone into persuading the image generator to produce these finished results. There were some initial drafts with a few slight inconsistencies, which were all corrected.
I really like these two recent images: one with X-Bomber flying over a lunar-like landscape with an authentic EDF-looking facility nearby and a very atmospheric sky.
The other features X-Bomber flying past Jupiter.
Also present is an animated version of the first image, which is quite immersing.
I like the revisions that the AI has made to X-Bomber's shape.
I looks a little more streamlined and more substantial than the original. This slug hunt business has gone on a lot longer than I expected, but I have had good success in rounding up most of the unique slugs that were released in Slugterra's original Jakks Pacific toy range.
We've had these arriving from all over the place, but mostly Italy and America.
I found a collection for sale not long ago, containing 6 that we were missing:
Enigmo, Tangles, Megamorph Burpy, Thugglet, Forgesmelter and the terrifying Goon Doc.
It also had all six guardian slugs that were released as exclusives early-on.
More recently, I managed to find all three new slugs from the last wave that they made (wave 7):
Ping, Negashade and Megamorph Frightgeist, along with a Flaringo, who While very common in the show, is surprisingly difficult to locate online.
Unfortunately, there's been an odd situation with the FedEx International Connect service, where it looks like 5 pallets were held back in Newark after a security scan must've turned up things that the airline really didn't want going onboard their plane.
It's had a bit of a delay but the tea leaves that they call "tracking data" indicate that the shipment containing the four 'rares' has arrived in the UK.
So we'll see if that makes it to our door anytime soon. Last year, I did some Terrahawks gingerbreads.
They turned out fine, but I suggest not using the BBC recipe I found.
They turned out a bit bland and tasteless, a bit like most of their programming.
They wrote to me the other day about a Black Friday sale at Anderson Entertainment.
I'd had my eye on the Stingray raygun for quite a while and it was quite a lot marked-down.
Considering how quickly the Thunderbirds raygun and Captain Scarlet pistols seemed to disappear, I'm surprised that these didn't all disappear sooner.
For one thing, the Stingray weapon looks a lot more impressive than the Captain Scarlet one.
It looks great next to the Thunderbirds one.
I think peoples' attentions have gone off 1:1 replicas of film and TV items, because it's something that companies don't often make now.
It takes lots of R&D to give them any functionality and with 3D printing, you can get replicas of almost anything at low cost that hold up pretty well for display.
Anyway, I think this is a great item for the money.
I'm not super sure why the supporting material talks about it firing gas rounds, when that, to me, doesn't really reflect what you see it do in the show.
In the Tajmanon episode, they refer to it as a raygun and I would've fully doubled down on that.
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