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 holl...
Hello everyone and welcome to the return of Beyond The Launchpad. As I type this I have no idea where the new direction is going to go following a relocation to Launchpad BW13 from the original of BA 80 and a LH53 residence of a near decade. What's in a name you might ask. I figured that a view from the new upper level of BW13 would be in order. So here it is from a pre-Easter observation. From here in where I can I will be posting here as well as on some of that so called modernity of image facilitators, Insta. That however is for everyday stuff, here I want to do something a bit more nuanced. If I can.
With little over two months until the much trumpeted return of the Metal Gear Franchise in the form of a prologue game to Metal Gear Solid Five (“The Phantom Pain”) GroundZeroes is awaited with baited breath. I for one am looking forward to purchase, hopefully on a new PS4. Yet, the more I look at this, the more perplexed I become. It feels like the Tanker Chapter from MGS2. An incomplete story, which will leave MGS fans waiting (for another year?) for the concluding part. It won’t be a full packaged game – I surmise this for several reasons. Firstly, I’ve noticed some retailers placing the game at a pre-order price of around £25 for the PS4. £25? Most eagle-eyed people know PS4 games never come in as cheap as that. Seems like there won’t be a lot of content to this, so in fairness, perhaps the price is right. Initially the game was going to be sold as DLC on the PS4 – but this has changed (so no meltdown on the PSN ...
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