Beyond The Launchpad

Time to start posting again - but unsure as to what, given that most of my time seems to be caught up in the Twitterverse or scrabbling about at home. Was thinking of using this as a reviews thing but then all the venom that that would no doubt create would cause me issues. Then I thought, what about your building projects, what about that? Of course that is an idea but it's not exactly what Beyond the Launchpad was set up to be. I'm giving myself a window until the new year to start thinking what next.  Any ideas - well, you know where to comment...

Sometimes, when I'm not building Gundam, I set about modifying 'toys' and such to make them look cooler. This weekend I have progressed with several projects, some nearer completion than others, but I thought I'd give you a peek at something more or less complete - a 1/6 scale Jawa I purchased last weekend at the Maidstone Vintage Toy Fair. When purchased I thought I'd just got a lump of plastic to display only.  Wrong.  It seemed it was one of the 1997 Special Edition releases, which did have a neat little gimmick of light up eyes, however, the contacts on the on/off button were not in a great shape and worse still the button was a contact switch - so the light came on only when the switch was pressed... Time for some Martin magic. (turn me on!)   Hidden in the back of the Jawa, an on/off switch (the silver thing in the illustration above) which, following some slight modification of the switch opening at the back of the Jawa and a now hollow chest area,

It's May.  Japan seems so far away, in time, space and distance now.  The nights are lighter. I've been building.  But I still haven't built perfect.  I'm not sure I can but I keep trying.  That's the point. No picture for this post.  Figured I should though - it's been a while.