Scorpio clipgun and teleport bracelet

Trooper Par
from the season 2 story
Trial

Shrinker
from the season 3 story
Rumours of Death

Section Leader Klegg
from the season 3 story Powerplay

Tarrant as a Federation Captain
from the season 3 story Powerplay

Tarrant season 3

Vila season 2

Vila season 3
as a Federation Trooper

Vila season 4

Rontane from the season 2 story Trial

Berkol from the season 2 story Trial

Carnel from the season 2 story Weapon

Like many many people Avon is my favourite character.
I have 5 different figures of Avon each one from a different 'era' of Blake's 7
Here is the first season varient.

Federation Trooper season 1/2/3

The Trooper costume would see several subtle changes
throughout the 4 seasons of Blake's 7.

Pictured here is the regular guard costume, basic rank, but armed and slightly dangerous.

Federation Captain seasons 1/2/3

The Trooper Captain wore the same costume as the regular Troopers with a few additions.
The perspex band around the helmet is framed with a silver trim.
A silver trim also runs on the underside of the mask.
Instead of the waist and chest belt the Captain has a triangular leather body protector.
Like all Federation guards he is armed with a blaster.

Federation Trooper season 4

The differences to the Trooper costume are more subtle than the season 3 variant.
The waist and chest belts are now silver studded on black. Of which the chest belt now crosses the left shoulder. The gloves have gauntlets and the Federation crest is now mounted on the front centre of the Trooper helmet.

Space Commander Travis
season 2


One of the most interesting changes to the regular cast line up was the re-casting of the villain Travis.
This was one of the first Blake's 7 figures I completed.
Travis is armed with his built in 'lazeron destroyer' in his mechanical left hand.

Blake
from the season 4 story Blake


I always hated it when toy companies produced two or more versions of the same character in a different costume, cynical marketing if you like, until of course I came to make my own toys.
At least with this character there is a passing of time and a fight or two so the figure is not just a change of costume it also requires a bit of re-sculpting on the head.
Blake is armed with a Federation blaster.

Blake season 2


Blake
is armed with a Liberator
hand gun and
a teleport bracelet.

President Servalan
from Blake's 7 Season 3 story
Rumours of Death


All of the figures have their own complications in perfecting either a likeness or getting elements of the costume just right and this figure was no exception.
However I didn't want to shy away from a fantastic costume, my favorite in fact, and when I was lucky enough to find a string of miniature pearls in a haberdashery this figure was a must to make from that time.


Making the figure as you can imagine is very time consuming.
It takes roughly 25/30 hours to complete a full figure, depending on both the character and the materials to hand.

For over twenty years now I have been making my own toys models and action figures and consider myself to be fairly professional at what was once a hobby.
Being a big Sci-Fi fan my toys are based firmly in this genre more particularly
Dr Who Blake's 7 and Star Trek, but my most recently works are from the new series Battlestar Galactica.

I have a collection of over 200 Dr Who figures in several different scales.
A 2 inch range made from modified Mask figures which compliment the Product Enterprises Rolymatic Daleks.
A 4 inch range made from many different figure types, Hasbro Star Wars / Gi Joe Action Force / Mego Black Hole and Buck Rogers.
Next range is the Mego size which is 7 1/2 inches.
Then a 9 inch scale, made from Trek Playmates dolls, to compliment
the 1970's Dennis Fysher figures.
Finally a 12 inch range.
Too many different scales I know!

My other figure collections are made in only two different scales.
A Star Trek range of figures in 4 inch made from both the Mego Motion Picture figures and the Galoob Next Gen' figures.
A Mego range of mostly Classic Trek figures and Classic movie figures, along with a few Classic cross-over characters.
This was actually the range that started my passion of Mego customs.

Last but not least my Blake's 7 range of figures.
The 4 inch range was started 20 years ago along with the Dr Who figures and has only recently been dusted down and added to.

For most of this year I have been working on a large Mego project.
I have sculpted and created a range of 50 figures from Blake's 7.
It's taken a lot longer than I initially thought to create these figures but I'm very happy with the results and the feedback I've received for the 20 or so figures I've shown so far. I've been featured as Custom of the Week at the Mego Talk forum and had some photos published the great new Blake's 7 Fanzine Scorpio Attack.

I sculpt all the heads and weapons.
Hand stitch all the costumes and hand paint the molded heads.
The blank bodies and boots are the only manufactured items which are
imported from the USA.