Hope you are well, with those you are close to and staying safely at home. Here's some content to help absorb both your time and mine, as there's little to do. Located in Central New York State, now on lockdown over the COV-19 virus and I cast my lot with my family: Bunkering in dad's basement aka the Syracuse Studio until the Governor signals the coast is clear. In my eyes it's not "Twelve Monkeys" it's "The Thing", for which we should be grateful as "Twelve Monkeys" is set after the world came to an end. "The Thing" is all about diagnosis, isolation, containment and eradication up to and including the entire population being at risk of assimilation. Do your part and stay home as much as you can.
Hit Critical Mass on Marx "Rex Mars" type figures in terms of helmets per figure.
Only thing to do was to throw down on some helmets, which I'd already done for my 70mm "Rex Mars Official Planet Patrol" set.
And then got real on the rest. Recast helmets for both figure sets are not difficult to score but do take money, and I can attest that it was worth it.
Then just by chance I happened to have one of my Crescent Toys Kellogg's spaceman figures out while a couple Rex Mars were on the desk. Suddenly struck me that it's notoriously (and I think excellently) undersized head was about the same size as a Rex Mars figure. The Crescents in my collection are some of my favorites -- I love the "working man space technician" aura including their mutual need to loose 20lbs -- but finding them replacements for their factory-issued helmets is pretty much a lost cause. Further contemplation suggested the larger 70mm helmets might go over the head of a Manurba figure, another tough nut to crack as far as finding replacement helmets for. Popped open the Rex Mars box and dug out enough to go around ...
File that under "Huh ..." and all I can say is, they are helmets which fit.
Now, the purist will scoff and indeed the head of one guy was too big for the helmet necks. But for temporary use I'd say that's a pretty decent look for them in addition to actually fitting.
They remind me of the Nostromo's surface pressure suits from the first ALIEN movie.
The helmet fit for the 70mm figures on the Manurba's isn't as convincing, helmet neck width is exactly as wide as their upper suit collars. But a ring of sticky putty and they won't shake off if toppled over, which happens a lot.
Allsortsa pix below. Here's my Major Robertson figure from Marx's brief but influential "Space Patrol" figure set.
Head's too wide. Sorry, Bro.
Yellow dude's helmet fit is awkward. Sits too low on his shoulders, but then again I'm not scoring helmets just for these figures. Just borrowing them from the Rex Mars box for pix.
With his sticky putty seal.
