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Plymouth57
#1 Posted : 25 January 2016 17:44:13

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Babylon 5 was my favourite sci-fi series of all time, so here's my contribution to the 'B5' revival! BigGrin

This is the Minbari War Leader Alyt Neroon, for those who never saw the series, an 'Alyt' would be the equivalent of an Admiral or General with 'Shai Alyt' being the Commander in Chief. Neroon was my favourite character from my favourite show - tough and bolshy (on a good day!)Blink
This is a 1/6th scale model conversion which I've been 'renovating' for one of the photo comp entries (actually, washing off the dust, repairing a broken bone crest and gluing his left arm back on!Blushing )
There are still a few inaccuracies on the figure, I've put some of them right but when I made this figure all those years back when Babylon 5 first appeared on our tv screens, the only source of reference material I had was the pause button on my VHS video recorder! (remember VHS??BigGrin )
Anyhow, for all the B5 fans on here, hope you like him!

Robin.
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Diorama of the Battle of the Brandywine from the American Revolutionary War Diorama of the Battle of New Falkland (unfinished sci-fi), Great War Centenary Diorama of the Messines Ridge Assault
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#2 Posted : 25 January 2016 19:12:05

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Great model, you could add a fighting staff if you were going to continue working on it
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Robin

Now that I do like a lot. Think these series related figure kits are so special and yours looks top notch.

Seven Models was always one I followed as a youngster and managed to get their Dr Who Cyberman kit but years on they seem to be a distant memory and still have me wishing some of their kits were still available.

Talking of VHS how about Betamax? Oh the days of old BigGrin Just looked on the latest Argos catalogue and was amazed how many record players are still available - now who wants to take a bet on when we will see the latest Betamax player being launched LOL LOL LOL
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#4 Posted : 26 January 2016 21:42:10

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Many thanks to Michael and Tony for those kind words!Blushing

Michael, you're dead right, in actual fact he was intended to be holding the fighting pike but I had some problems there! As you'll see below, the basis for Neroon was the AMT vinyl kit of Dr McCoy from Star Trek. Now, according to the instructions, it said you could bend the vinyl by placing the part in hot water for a few minutes. That's what I tried to do, warming up the hand and clamping it around the aluminium tube for the pike. The trouble was within about half an hour the fingers would always straighten back out into their original position!Crying (A sort of vinyl memory?)
If I was making him today I'd probably cut out little wedges from under the finger joints and super glue the hand into position. Back then I didn't have the skills or knowledge (or the courage) to try that!
Tony, I can remember the excellent Sevans range of vac formed models too!Cool
Like you I only ever got one of them (as you can see below)I had to photograph him from the right (oops that's the left!Blushing , the other side has a lot more missing black paint!Blushing I always wanted the Cyberman too. I found some references on the search and I'd forgotten how many kits they actually did produce...
Two Daleks, Special Weapons Dalek, Davros, Cyberman, Ice Warrior, K9, I think two Dr Whos and the Tardis Oh! and Davros as the Imperial Emperor Dalek too!Cool Cool Cool
I really wish they were still around!
Betamax!!!LOL Talking of record players I bet someone brings out a collection of Jazz LPs!!!Flapper Flapper Flapper

Ah, memories!Cool

Robin
Plymouth57 attached the following image(s):
Alyt Neroon reply pic.JPG
Sevans Dalek pic.JPG
First wooden ship: The Grimsby 12 Gun 'Frigate' by Constructo Second: Bounty DelPrado Part Works Third: HMS Victory DelPrado Part Works 1/100 scale
Diorama of the Battle of the Brandywine from the American Revolutionary War Diorama of the Battle of New Falkland (unfinished sci-fi), Great War Centenary Diorama of the Messines Ridge Assault
Index for the Victory diary is on page 1
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