roymattblack Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) I've been a Dan Dare fan for donkeys years and have the entire collection of Eagle comics. (As well as TV-21) I also have the Dan Dare strips in the gigantic, superb Hawk hardback book collections. I've been trying to get a good model of Anastasia - Dan's ship, for many years but for whatever reason, nobody makes one. SOOO - The upshot is I'm going to make one myself. I think that to do it any justice, the finished model will need to be around 18" (460mm) in length at least. TBH, I'd prefer it at around 24"- 30" but my vac former can't make the parts large enough without resorting to loads of bits that need fixing together. Even at 18" though, I'll be able to add interior detail through the 'greenhouse' windows. I'm going to make it in clear plastic, vac formed, so I will be able to have all the windows just by careful masking before paint. That way, there will be no fiddly adding separate clear windows to the model. As a vac form, I'll have to create the masters first but after that, I'll be able to make as many as I want if things go wrong. The attached pic is a model someone else made for themselves. Am I potty... Are there no other people out there who have wanted a model of Anastasia? WHY has nobody ever made such a kit??? Am I the only old twit who has wanted one? Edited July 19, 2020 by roymattblack 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalbert Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Awsome ,i am in,i too am a big fan of Dan Dare🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperService Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 I'm in! Dan Dare and vacform tips too! ☕ at the ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 I'll follow along on this, Eagle was weekly grist to our mill when I was a kid, pity we didn't keep ours like you have, they'd be brilliant to leaf through nowadays. As for Anastasia, I was definitely a fan but my favourite was the Zylbat, that really rocked my preteen boat. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 4 hours ago, roymattblack said: (As well as TV-21) Would you consider a lend/lease arrangement for them? That's where half my pocket money went in those days. Eagle was read on an opportunistic basis, that is, whenever I could scrounge a copy from someone. I loved the Dan dare artwork and Anastasia has a lovely shape, so I'll don my Spacesuit and hitch a ride too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Aero Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 I too thought that Anastasia was a super craft. Do we have dimensions? My great mentors Ada and Jim Winterbottom up in Lancashire, helped make my childhood in Oldham a magical place. They bought me the Eagle every week and gave me materials to make things with. Now look where that led too. John 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr T Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 My brother who is four and half plus older than me used to have the Eagle and so I was reading it at an early age andI used to love the Dan Dare hardware. I wish I had collected the hardback collections when they came out, but with have young children at the time was a bit of a non starter (the downside of having a wife ten years your junior, but I proud of my children). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Aero Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Nothing wrong with younger wives, Mine's 25 years my junior, and it's been that way for 20 years 😀 John 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roymattblack Posted July 21, 2020 Author Share Posted July 21, 2020 Mine is 15 years younger than me... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr T Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 13 hours ago, John Aero said: Nothing wrong with younger wives, Mine's 25 years my junior, and it's been that way for 20 years 😀 John And a very nice lady she is John, I cannot believe that it is so long, mind you I first met you nearly 40 years ago. Give her my regards Martin 1 hour ago, roymattblack said: Mine is 15 years younger than me... Glad I am good company here, oddly enough Mrs T's sister also married someone somewhat older than herself and also able to cook, do DIY etc, not daft the pair of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Aero Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Occasionally the Avatar hides the person behind quite successfully to a 'T'. Martin, of course you also knew my dear late wife Angela and you must certainly vie for being one of my oldest customers. We are certainly fortunate. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Thompson Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 My wife is only 1 year younger than me. What on earth am I doing wrong? Re Dan Dare, of the 3 tea chests I stored in a friends woodland for 10 years in Wales when I moved to the Netherlands, the one with the few Eagles I'd kept was the one I never found again. (Luckily the one with my modelling stuff, and Airfix and Scale Models magazines did make it). Paul. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr T Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Yes of course I remember Angela and the sadness of her passing. My avatar comes from when I was working when the secretary I had and her friend who was the receptionist at uni used to always call me Mr T and it seemed a good one when I joined Britmodeller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr T Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 3 minutes ago, Paul Thompson said: My wife is only 1 year younger than me. What on earth am I doing wrong? For me and John it was second time around and of course older more experienced men are just that more sexy (I have always had the ability to kid myself). 😉 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langy Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 (edited) Scoot up fellas and make space for a little one, ( I do bring Hob Nobs though)... Being of a slightly younger vintage I was blessed by the 1982 version of Dan Dare, (the original's great-great grandson Daniel)..Incidently, my eldest ended up being called Daniel after 'my' Dan Dare. My Father had read all the original Dan Dare stories as a child and naturally when the Eagle comic was re-released in 1982 he made sure I got swept up in the stories of Dan Dare, One of the most memorable things about the 'new' Eagle was the artwork by Ian Kennedy, the spaceships were so futuristic but believable, I loved the stories that lasted many issues, For example, I can remember to this day the first story about (New) Dan's return to earth only to find it enslaved by the Mekon, and his fight to free the earth from the Mekon and the Treens. During this story Dan stole the Mekon's personal 'fighter', a ship called the 'firefly', The conclusion of this story and the subsequent defeat of the Mekon would then lead on to a story called 'The Dare Report', which via a bit of 'retconning' would tell readers how the original Dan Dare, a decorated Battle of Britain pilot, and Test Pilot would end up slipping through time into the future, and then bring the story up to date for the 'new' Dan Dare, For years I wanted my own model of 'Firefly', but alas it never happened... However those memories will stay with me for ever.. Anyhow, excuse the ramblings above, I'm soooo looking forward to this build...can't wait to see how this progresses. p.s. I'd love to know if this is still available http://www.mwctoys.com/REVIEW_061110b.htm Edited July 21, 2020 by langy 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 @roymattblack any news on this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roymattblack Posted October 3, 2020 Author Share Posted October 3, 2020 Hello there. On the back burner at present but not forgotten. I'm currently up to my ears on a Tamiya 1/12 Lotus 49, the giant Edai 1/8 Porsche and a 1/4 scale Williams... Anastasia will get sorted. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 Take your time, Roy. Looking at those scales, you'll be back to 1/1 scale soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Smith Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 Looking at the posts...............Nostalgia by men of a certain age. Yes, I too read the Eagle when I was a kid. I have a book entitled the Best of The Eagle that brings back a lot of memories. When I was a small boy back in the late forties early fifties I can remember mum and dad buying my brother and me a little check jacket each that had the Dan Dare Starfleet logo on them. I also loved the detailed cutaway drawings of different subjects across the top half of the middle pages of the comic. The Anastasia was a lovely looking spacecraft, but cannot see anyone investing in a kit of a subject from a 1950's comic, unless an enthusiast make a limited run resin or vac form. The Treen spaceships looked good too. I think that someone did a white metal figure of the Mekon some time back. I can remember watching an American sci fi movie at the local cinema where the alien invader's victims had an implant stuck into the backs of their necks. They were trooped to their leader who had an over sized head. Some joker in the audience said out loud' Well Look who's turned up here! It's our old friend the Mekon!' The suspense was immediately shattered as a lot of ex Eagle readers in the audience started laughing, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 2 hours ago, Noel Smith said: unless an enthusiast make a limited run resin or vac form. There was a small ready built resin? Anastasia for sale on the bay a couple of weeks ago. So they do exist. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 I'd love a model of the Anastasia, so will be very interested in this! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photon Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 (edited) Very interested to follow along. Martin Bower modeled a bunch of the Dan Dare ships years ago. There are some pictures here: Link Edited March 24, 2021 by Photon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEXANTOMCAT Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Any news on this! I also remember the relaunched Eagle which my Dad got me to get me into Dan and his chums! I remember the Firefly vividly! TT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan R Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 15 hours ago, TEXANTOMCAT said: I also remember the relaunched Eagle which my Dad got me to get me into Dan My dad used to get the Eagle comic as a lad himself, and when he got married and I came along (Dark pre-historic times...), he continued to get it for me from the newsagent. I loved the Dan Dare strip. Can't really remember much else about it (I do have a couple of Eagle annuals somewhere - 1952, 53 & 56 if I recall). It went downhill after it was merged with Boy's World comic. Too many WWII strips for me. Dan Dare was a lot more nuanced than 'good guys - us, bad guys - them! Ah well. All things have to come to an end... Cheers, Alan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsrjoe Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 I really should get to finishing my own 72 scale model of 'annie', again vacform fuselage halves split horizontally :) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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