Dan Dare In 1/6

Steve Forde of Go Hero mentions: "As announced some time ago, we partnered with a production company called Day2Day Trading, run by Anthony “Tony” Jeff, to develop some of our recent projects, including the award winning Buck Rogers 1:6 scale figure. Day2Day has embarked on the license comic book character Dan Dare for 1:6 scale figures and statues. Tony, being from the UK knew of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, but his real beloved childhood hero was DAN DARE! These projects are shaping up to be amazing additions to your sci-fi collection."

CLICK THRU for mondo-more images, featuring prototype-pics with designs based on model sheets
illustrated by Chris Weston (The Filth and Ministry of Space), and a wee 2D-to-3D visual comparisons!

[Prototype of 1/6-scale Dan Dare (Red Flight Suit) by Day2Day Trading]

Termight Replicas-blogs: "Day2Day Trading are currently working on two 12" Dan Dare action figures for 2010. The photos above show a prototype of Dan in his red flight suit armed with a paralysing pistol. A second figure with Dan wearing his green uniform is also in preproduction. Both figures are based on concept art by Chris Weston, which stay true to Frank Hampson's original designs."

FYI: Scheduled for a release in March/April 2010, the figures has an estimated cost of £100 each ~ and if purchased directly via Termight Replicas, will include a free full-sized Spacefleet cap badge [via]


[Dan Dare Model Sheets by Chris Weston]


[2D-to-3D: "Paralysing" Raygun / Helmet]

[2D/3D-Headsculpt ... the arched brow would've been cool tho, if made, IMHO]:

WHO-IS: Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson. Hampson not only invented Dan Dare and his entire world, he also put together the original team of artists and wrote the first two stories. Dan Dare appeared in the Eagle comic story Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future in 1950, dramatised 7 times a week on Radio Luxembourg.

The stories were set in the late 1990s but the dialogue and manner of the characters is reminiscent of British war films of the 1950s. Dan Dare has been described as "Biggles in Space" and as the British equivalent of Buck Rogers. Dan Dare was distinguished by its long, complex story lines, snappy dialogue and meticulously illustrated comic-strip artwork by Hampson and other artists, including Harold Johns, Don Harley, Bruce Cornwell, Greta Tomlinson, Frank Bellamy and Keith Watson.

Currently, one new Dan Dare publication is available. A recently completed mini-series of Dan Dare has been launched by Virgin Comics. It is written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Gary Erskine and is a completely new and somewhat darker intrepretation of Dan Dare. [Wiki]