HAPPY 40TH ANNIVERSARY STAR BLAZERS!

HAPPY 40TH ANNIVERSARY STAR BLAZERS!

In America STAR BLAZERS Aired on the 17th of September in 1979. Of course SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO has been around since 1974, and that is wonderful!

Music from Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark

Some of my Classic Star Blazers Collection!

 Leiji Matsumoto 

Lifelong STAR BLAZERS Boss out!

COLLECTION DIARY: FEBRUARY 2014

This month I got a very good start on my STAR TREK Model Collection, in fact I can begin playing some ATTACK WING Games as soon as I get the rules. I joked about tossing the little models that come with the game in the trash, but the fact is that they will be fine as Backdrop ships.

This is the second time I have had so many packages delivered on the same day, that I had to use a shopping cart to bring them all up to my apartment...Ha, Ha! The first time I pulled this stunt was when I started my STAR WARS collection...

Federation

The heroes of the galaxy have has founded! I am going to build this faction with several model brands because The Federation has the most diverse Starfleet of all the races in STAR TREK.
This was the challenge from the begging of this endeavor, to get everything into 2/500 & 1/50 scale.
I am very pleased by the fact that I could make this Boss' BIG ATTACK WING Project of mine actually happen.

Klingon

I love the Klingons, and and I am going to have a very nice fleet for the faction! This is a decent start. I am going to use the classic AMT Vor'cha model to convert into either a Neg'varh, or a Bird of Death. The reason I have the different types of K'vort class BOP's is to use the Corgi model as a character's ship...just for fun. The rest of my K'vort BOP's will be Hot Wheels models.

Romulan

Probably the most amusingly treacherous evil faction in all of STAR TREK in my view, and I am going to have a lot of fun with them. I am using the very cool and screen accurate Playmates version of the Warbird for the Faction's Flagship. I am going to convert the Hallmark ornaments into other smaller versions of Warbirds...because I can, and it IS cool.

Dominion.

Are they the best Bad Guys in all of STAR TREK? How evil can Lizard-men and Snake-men be, when they are led by Shape-shifting-gods? I am going to build a very nice fleet of Cardassians and Jem'hadar. I will definitely be having several Dominion War battles in my ATTACK WING Games.

Borg

This is the most challenging faction to realize in my collection! They will be represented by a few scratch built models and several converted models to make up some cool Assimilated ships. I am using parts from several kits for the faction. 

I focused on getting my BBAW Project started this month with a bang, however I still managed to even up my STAR BLAZERS Earth Defense Force Fleet, with another Main Battleship and Battle Carrier. I wanted two of these so I can have them cover Flagships, just as the little Destroyers and Escorts cover them.

Trekkie Boss out!

COLLECTION DIARY: JANUARY 2014

I got most of The Earth Defense Force Fleet taken care of this month, and I also added some cool little escort craft to The Garmillas Imperial Fleet. I am incorporating the classic STAR BLAZERS models  with the new YAMATO 2199 range. The models scale well, and look good together. Now I will be able to have great diversity in my games, as I can play different time lines, and mix older ships with the newer classes. This is how the series presented these ships too, as the story progressed so did the ships.

The Earth Defense Force has always been one of my all time favorite Starlets in all of Sci-Fi, and now I have the start of a damn fine representation of these heroes and their enemies...LOVE!

Amidst all of the Earth Force models, I also got a cute large sized screen accurate version of The Death Star...which is a good way to start the new year, I think. This is the BIG Daddy model among my STAR WARS Backdrop-ships. It will look very cool on the table, but unlike the other Backdrop-ships in my collection, which do little more than represent reinforcements, and look cool as part of the background terrain, this version of the Deathstar will directly affect the battles.

Boss out!

EARTH DEFENSE FLEET...HERE IT COMES!

Bandai will likely make new models for The Earth Defense Forces if YAMATO 2199 Series 2 is made. Based on how well YAMATO 2199 Series 1 has been received, this is probably going to happen in 2015. I will buy everything that is made in 1/1000 scale of course, but these classic non-scale and 1/7000 scale models will work just fine until then. I may keep these models as early versions of the new ships, or mess them up gloriously to use as huge debris fields if (when...Ha!) the new Bandai toys come forth to us.

By the way my friends, if you are weary of ordering from Japan, do not worry about it, and keep in mind that you will save from 25% to 50% off from Hobby Link Japan in most cases. I paid $75 (includes EMS tracking) for the twenty five models pictured above, where as just the large version of The Andromeda is priced at thirty to sixty dollars here in the states and that is if you hunt a bit for it. These are all the older classic models granted, but the brand new models are also 10% to 25% off or more. If you are building fleets as I am, then ordering from Japan is the way to go.

Note: if you are not schooled on the Bandai Mini Kits, many of them come with two models in the same package, or have a cool little extra plane or something else you will probably like.

Boss out.