'Childhood' from: SanderS: I love it when a plan comes together!

Hoi there,

Some time ago I posted on my blog that I had been honoured to be asked to be a Minion, Iannick then said that was cool and he could guess what I would enter in this Theme round. Well I think he was under the impression it was going to be more GIJoe, so therefore I reckon he did not see this one coming!

Being born in 1980 means I got on the wrong side of the 80's since the 90's had not properly started yet and everyone had a fresh 80's trauma to get over with. The Dutch television networks were always behind the trends so many an American 80's cartoon was released over here late in the 90's and that's were all this comes from.

So let's see what figures have originated from TV series have taken my fancy ok? First up are my regular Mystery Inc. crew. The figures are from Hasslefree and I already have painted their Post-Apoc versions earlier.

These figures I bought on a whim and have been lying in wait for some time. This theme round seemed what I needed to get them done.

What's next? Well, another awesome series that I viewed in the 90's was the A-Team and since the Germans had commercial networks before us and therefore had more money they could afford to buy and air it. That said they do German voice-overs making the guys in the series sound mighty dumb...

The figures are Wargames Foundry's B-Team and I must say while they get the dress down pretty good, the faces are a really bad likeness to the real actors. A further problem was the miscasting of Face, look at his frontal picture to see what I mean.

The bases for all the Mystery Inc and A-team figures are TTCombat resin scenic bases.

All of those are great but my absolute favourite of this batch are the following six figures, now you surely know what they are based upon right?

Yes that's right He-Man and the Masters of the Universe! Have you seen the "Toys that made us" series on Netflix?It has an episode on both GIJoe and He-man and how these were created, I just loved it. He-man has something downright cool, even if he's far ahead in fashion style.

 

These figures have Renedra plastic bases, except for Skeletor whose feet were too far apart and so I had to get a resin one.

When painting these I have watched the new 2002 series and that is basically what you would have wanted the older series to have been but I like both. Must be nostalgia, I bought the miniatures off an Etsy shop and don't believe they are available elsewhere. 

For some more 80's love:

Since there are so many nostalgic female heroes in there: Daphne, Velma, Amy, Teela and Evil Lynn, I think I would like to put this post up for Sarah's Choice.

So that's me done for this bonus round, I am off to finally get some 1:72 Napoleonics done.