Looks like Starscream just wandered into shot as the picture was taken 

 

According to this page Visionaries was it's own comic, but I remember Visionaries being one of the back-ups in Transformers as well (probably before Action Force moved in).

I read Thundercats and a Ghostbusters comic as well as Transformers. Shortly after Transfromers ended I started reading 'proper' comics with the Marvel UK reprints of Spider-Man, which if memory serves was £1.50/£2 for 4 stories! Those were thde days.

 

He knows they haven't spotted Slitherfang you see.
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Dog tail and everything.

 

My cheap IDT titan masters just turned up. Shame there's no proper engine pieces for Buster and Hydra but shapeways seems to only have done them for giga, mega and Ginrai. So Buster and Hydra will just have to use the same engines as overlord. I guess I could design some myself but since I have some giga/mega ones going spare anyway.... At least I can have all the masterforce decepticons all lined up on the shelf being titan master sized though.

 

Hah! I wonder if that gave some of the writers a new appreciation for what their artist collaborators did?  

 

Eye test time, Andy, @Q Prime's youthful eyes could see it!

It's the thigh ramp connected to his central bum bay door/ramp, I'm not a fan of just clipping on the side like a budget house extension, and was experimenting with a more integrated look.
Before getting Commander Modesty in hand I had overestimated the width between his side ramps and thought they might be specifically designed to link up to both thigh ramps and be a "proper" launchpad that could also be used for Omega's rocket, in reality they aren't set wide enough apart and there isn't enough space as the central tunnel/ramp section projects too far (unless one extends with a Soundbarrier or two) for the thigh ramps to reach a side one.
And even extending that alignment might necessitate scooting the Omega rocket from it's central "gantry" point (unless plenty of Soundbarriers were used).
I still fancied keeping the shuttle and rocket in proximity in a kinda Launchpad area and the above was the result.

I got curious about the Big CatBoid's stats too considering the odd rejiggering of ER Prime's powers and...

Strength: 10
Intelligence: 8
Speed: 10
Endurance: 10
Courage: 10
Firepower: 7
Skill: 8

Which unlike Prime are his exact G1 stats (Minus the "Rank: 9"), I also can't see a Siege-style Rank badge on his box name tag or anywhere on his instructions which is a shame. I suspect "Lieutenant Commander" might've been a bit of a bugger for their fairly simple rank structure of Private, Specialist, Sergeant, Captain, Major, General? Although you could just fudge it with Major being the equivalent in the Army, so just use that on a space command badge but what unit type? Hmmm...

Also just realised that in Star Trek parlance he's a 'Number One', and, by Primus, I just bet he loves being called that! Probably why Prime gave him that Rank!  

 

My tesco has that wave in. No sign of the rares and super rares though. I dont have time to go hunting at the mo either at asda etc like last time.

The Shazam wave I picked up from B&M that time was never repeated either, one case and no where else seemed to stock it.

 

I don’t suppose any of you lovely chaps have a Maketoys Bomber (Powerglide) you wish to sell? I’ve realised both him and the DOTM toy are glaring omissions in my shrine to Powerglide.

 

Alright, Lads straw poll time!
Should Sky Lynx be:

A) SPACE COMMAND/INFANTRY:

Or:

B) SPACE COMMAND/TRANSPORT:

Or:

C) SPACE COMMAND/SPECIAL OPS:

?

Hmmm, I think I know which one he thinks he is!

Hmm, I think I've also just realised that this "just realised" notion is one that I've "just realised" and posted before. Hmmm, the ol' age catching up with me!
 

 

I will admit they were only there to 'test' the shelves, I have fallen out of love with them a bit as I have sorted things, might keep a couple but ditch my many spares/incomplete teams.
Irks me that the torso car is so big.

The Kre-o Op is the beast hunters one with some Starscream attachments as I couldn't make Starscream (second hand bundle ages ago) as he has no head or one of the large torso pieces.

Wow! that's like everyone who was anyone!

Comics in youth was Spidey and Zoids only UK wise, then I went US around 'Fall of the Mutants' and was up and down Mega City/Gosh every Sunday for a while, I read 200Ad and JD for quite a while too, my favourite (bar the classics perhaps) has always been the JD story of the robot villains in the undersea complex where he picks up a concussion and has to fire at them point blank with a mining laser! Classic.

Doom Patrol 'Falling from the wreckage' was a turning point for me and my fave Morrison moment, the madness of 'Nowhere man' struck a chord,
then over to others for Sandman and Hellblazer. I picked up his 'We 3' in a charity shop recently, good to see it is still quality.
As I got older it was The Tick, and such as Faust and the risqué such as Black Kiss.
Nowadays it is just what I find second hand.

Robots? Nothing from Wish yet, and the first Covid boot was a quiet affair, just an armless Starscream, but snagged some old Warhammer for me, some Furbys for my mates shop, and 2 FNAF Funkos for the boy.

Laters.

 

Between your bouts of forgetfulness and my ailing eyesight, there’s no hope for either of us!!  

 

Ratchet available at Indemand. Just bought one. Couldn't miss out on my favourite TF

Edit: Sold out in like 4 mins

Double Edit: Indemand said the listing was available for a few hours before they posted it on Facebook as people were questioning why they didnt get email notifications. Hundreds were sent out apparently

Triple Edit: Theyve taken the post down now

 

The rares should definitely be there at some point because a bunch of these ones are. I'd have bought the lot bar Joker otherwise, he's clearance material!
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Test shots on an LED array, I can definitely work with that.

Today's arrivals from Oz (Bats is perfect apart from the face but that's the game look tbf, and Joker and WW are fantastic for the price).

The TMNT mirror puzzle is a classic IMO (had it as a kid) and I wish more of them had been made for other franchises. Think I'll paint the terrible condition Donnie (it was an eBay bundle).

 

I feel like I've read comics even as a baby. Ok maybe not, but I know I spent a lot of time looking at comics even if I didn't know to read. There was just so much of them around me, between my dad collection of Franco-Belge comics (Asterix, Tintin, Gaston Lagaffe, Black & Mortimer etc...) and what he brought home just for me to look at, like, gazillions tons of French Disney publications (magazines filled with italian/french/US Disney comics from all periods), it was impossible to resist. I even start learning to read because of them.
Like, here's a picture I just took of the actual first ever comic I have ever read:



Carl Barks ! <3
I was 4, and it never left me after that.

So yeah, mostly, Barks and Asterix were my favorite read and rerererereread as a very young lad.
First Super Hero comic I've read was a random Spider Man filler issue and it didn't hooked me. Heck, I remember having read an issue of TF Vs GI Joe way before being aware of Super Hero existence. Years later, age 13, I come across this one:



And that was it. Felt in love. Took all the money I earned at working during summer and went buying everything X-Men by Claremont (and in french that was a a total clusterfuck in publications haha), and a lot of Daredevil too, I remember. So Good... What a summer. Lol I remember reading the Inferno crossover and not understanding a fragment of what X-Factor is or what was going on with Piotr's sister ("isn't she like, a baby ? What's up with the demon thing ? WAIT JEAN'S ALIVE ??) but damn I loved every frame of it.

First manga was Akira.


Also, BLM

 

This as in Siege Ratchet? If so I would now expect them to shortly appear on ebay at £70 each...

 

You feel old. My first event comic was 'Flash of Two Worlds'!

Well, it feels like it sometimes.

Up to late November '85 (a busy month, as you'll see) I'd only picked up a few issues of random comics here and there, such as the UK Return of the Jedi comics, the 'collected comics' Secret Wars special and the pre 'Spiderman and Zoids' Spiderman UK reprints (Spider-Man Weekly, I believe was the imaginative title). I vividly remember the black and white reprint of ASM#173, with the Molten Man. Then, of course, I got TF:UK#38 and was hooked.From '86 to '87 I'd still pick up all the other UK stuff available at the Newsagents, from M.A.S.K to Thundercats to Spiderman and Zoids (particularly loved that. I hadn't seen Terminator or Aliens by that point, so all the Silverman stuff was mind-blowing, to the surprisingly belated Master of the Universe comic (1st issue in '86? Seriously?), the odd issue of Eagle (DOOMLORD!), Action Force and even Supernaturals. But then I stayed with my Gran for a fortnight over the summer holidays of '87 and found my Uncles pile of 2000ad comics. A smattering of issues going from Prog 501 to Prog 529. Once again, I was totally hooked and convinced my parents to let me put it on my standing order every week. I think I had to drop M.A.S.K. as they weren't going to let me have more than two comics every week. Nae contest. For the next three years, 2000ad was the best thing around. My golden era is those 200 issues from Prog 500 up to Prog 700. Heresy to the older 2000ad fan, perhaps, but whatever.

American comics didn't really get a serious look in until I saw Justice League International#9 in the newsagent. Hooked again, and suddenly I was interested in the boring, stuffy, old DC Universe. In the summer of '88 I was on Holiday somewhere in the Mediterranean with my folks (these holidays have all merged into one in my mind. Maybe it was Cyprus?) and found that all these little shops had spinner racks with a bunch of random DC comics from 1986 and 1987 and all for about the equivalent of 10p each. I think I was allowed one a day. There were definitely a few Blue Beetle and Booster Gold comics in there, including Blue Beetle#1.

Like @Seeaich I couldn't manage to get all the 'Millenium' tie in issues, but between my friends and I, we certainly got quite a few. And we definitely got nearly all of 'Invasion'. My friend, who was a wee bit older, was going to Science Fiction Bookshop in Edinburgh and brought back the last issue of The Dark Knight. Heavy. And of course, the Batman film came out around this time, so we were all getting every Batman thing we could get our hands on. In fact the comics I've owned the longest are my copies of The Killing Joke and Year One. Around this time I also got a few issues of the UK Crisis comic. I think even as a fairly smart child this was a bit above my level.

I remember my friend getting into McFarlaine's Spiderman and Liefeild's New Mutants and thinking it was all awful, stupid, and badly drawn. I still do.

by this time I'm old enough to go over the Forth to Edinburgh myself and I'm straight to the comic shops. Armageddon 2001 was the first crossover where I went fully full on in. No more having to piss around with the newsagent and miss loads of issues. I also started getting in Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol and, rather naffly, Marv Wolfman's Deathstroke and Titans comics. Doom Patrol was the last evolution of my childhood tastes. From there out I was getting anything by Morrison or Pete Milligan. Comic shops and book shops with bins full of comics were pillaged for back issues of Doom Patrol, Animal Man, Kid Eternity, Skreemer, Hellblazer, and Shade the Changing Man. I even scored a copy of the old school bound 'fall part' version of Arkham Asylum for a quid in a random shop near the bus station in Kirkcaldy. It wasn't long after that all this stuff got brought under the Vertigo umbrella. I felt duty bound to buy it all. Turned out most of it was shite. Stick to the writers you like. Milligan and McCarthy's Skin came out around this time. That was a big deal. And in my back issue hunting I sought out the old Crisis issues with 'The New Adventures of Hitler', and Revolver with 'Rogan Gosh'. I loved so many of the 'backups' in Crisis as a 14 year old getting into the notion of 'bohemia' it all seemed so 'adult'. Insiders remains one of the only Mark Millar comics that doesn't make me groan.

The wheels fell off so afterwards. By late summer of '93 I felt like I'd read everything and that nothing coming out was any good. Something weird was going on with Grant Morrison. He was going on about dance music and everything seemed wrapped up in some cheap veneer of 'cool'. Where was the freaks? Even Shade the Changing Man was meandering. 2000AD had given up the ghost too. I'd definitely stopped reading by the time the 'Summer Offensive' came around. As I approached 15 music was taking over. I'd like to say 'music, drink, drugs, and girls', but I'd already started on the drink and drugs and girls were about a year off.

Fast forward to 1998. I go into Forbidden Planet on whim and have a look round. It appears some fuckwit has actually allowed Grant Morrison to write JLA and there are Spiderman comics where Peter Parker is not Spiderman. Oh, go on then.

I thought Final Crisis was great. I absolutely adore Morrison's 'late period' DC saga, from JLA Classified, through Seven Soldiers, to Final Crisis, and his Batman work. Multiversity didn't quite do it for me though naturally, I loved the 'Charlton' issue.

Ah, I've read a lot of pieces on Ninth Art. I've very likely read yours. I'm curious to know what pieces you've written but would appreciate if you'd prefer not to say.

Deadline was great. First place I saw an Al Columbia comic.

I've not even got Sky Lynx yet and I'd say him. Astrotrain was a bit of a damp squib for me.

Oooh! I like the Green one. That's pretty. Make him the green one.

I call this 'the saga of November 23rd 1985'. It was my seventh birthday and I was allowed to go to the toy shop and pick a present. Naturally, it had to be a Transformer. I knew my Gran had got me Optimus Prime so I had to get his nemesis, right? Right! Megatron it was.

As soon as I got him home and out of the box he broke. I can't remember how or which part. Take your pick of any of his flimsier parts. My Dad took us back and demanded an exchange. For reasons beyond mortal ken I picked Staks. Even my Dad sensed this was a dubious choice and asked me, more than once, if I was sure. I put my stubbornness down to fatigue. It had been an emotionally charged day.

I've been looking for a good quality Staks, with his stacks (only one pictured, but the seller messaged me to let me know the other one had fallen out the packaging and is currently in transit) for some time. Having these two together really takes me back.

 

Pffft.

You dirty dogs and your fancy space dragons! Trying to make me jealous are you? Well its working.

But I'll have the last laugh! My Sky Lynx is due for delivery today!!! WHOS LAUGHING NOW?!?!?!?!?

(its been one of those days)

 

Oh and quoting myself as I forgot Secret Wars... That started me on Marvel comics fully when I could buy them. Still re-read that series often (and hence why I want a Marvel Legends line of them!).

 

B

 

Whelp, for the first time in months I have shot on a range!

I am participating in a limb exchange, where you can swap the end bits of your bow for other ones withing 6 months. I'd arranged a click and collect for some brand new limbs meaning I've gone up from 28lb to 32lb limbs. It's only a difference of 1.7kg (actually slightly less because I'd tweaked my bow to get a extra couple lbs with the old limbs, and then back down with the new limbs, endless tweaking...) but I've been told in order to maintain and develop your skill properly (and avoid injury) to go up slowly. And who am I to argue?



Anyway seeing as I was there I went to shoot on the outdoor range. I went for the 2nd target which looked like the right distance, pinned up my target sheet and shot a couple of arrows. Bear in mind this was the first time shooting outdoors EVER and I was shooting with brand new limbs. So of course I promptly lost both arrows. They literally disappeared. No noise nothing, I shot they vanished. Bugger. I'd booked the range for an hour and luckily was the only one there, so I went all the way to the end of the field... where'd they go? Plus... I don't know the range of my bow. They could be anywhere, so I gave them up for lost.

I then saw at the side of the field some measurements, I'd been shooting at the 30m target. Oops. I usually shoot 20m indoors... I'd suffered from that thing where massive 80inch TV's look tiny in department stores. I then went to the 20m target, adjusted my sight and shot a couple more arrows. They hit the target low but at least they were ON the target... oh, so maybe my lost arrows are nearer than I thought? So I had another look and lo and behold around they were shot in the ground around 10 metres behind the target, practically horizontal and right next to each other. Not lost! Yay! They came in so shallow the grass slowed them down silently. They didn't teleport elsewhere after all.

I decided to take one more shot at the 30m target. I adjusted my sight (again, you have to adjust it everytime you change range, which makes sense) and this time my arrow was so low it passed under the target (again) but this time hit the wooden centre supporting leg (vertical accuracy at least). When I pulled the arrow out I realised the shock of hitting the wood (as opposed to straw or foam) had shaken the arrow so badly the nock had shattered. Arse. Not a biggie (as I have spares) but maaaaaaybe shooting at 30m is too much for me right now.

So I moved my target to the 20m target and (finally!) started hitting the damn thing. Bear in mind I'd only booked for 1 hour, and was acutely aware of time ticking away. After tuning the sight I decided I would try and score a 60 arrow round (this was foolish, I did not have nearly enough time, should have shot 30) so by the end of my hour I was rushing all the shots (and thus accuracy suffered) so those last shots were a waste of time anyway. But before I rushed it all I was getting some good shots. And realising how much difference wind makes to the shot. The wind is blowing a little bit and it can divert your shot 10cm at 20m... what the hell would strong wind do to an arrow at 50m? 70m? Shiiiit. No wonder people buy magical wonder arrows that are like needles. To lessen the wind effect outdoors!

Anyway I had fun this morning but an hour is not enough. But at £6 an hour it really is enough. I might shoot again in a couple of weeks, but until then I think the garage will have to do.

Oh and I picked up the Scrapface from Smyths on the way back! First impressions in package? Hrm. Not great. Yes there are more paint apps, but some looks really messy. Also his box photo seems to sho he has facial scarring. Not so with this dude. I'll reserve final judgement until I actually get him out of package but right now? Buying 3 would seem to be out of the question.