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The new Wallace and Gromit film aired on TV on Christmas day - it's short feature length at 79 minutes and featured Wallace and Gromit handling the consequences of The Wrong Trousers - Feathers McGraw the penguin criminal mastermind finally took his revenge on the dynamic duo. This led to the creation of an army of robotic garden gnomes, the seizure of all of Wallace's inventions, and eventually a long chase by road and canal.

It was a fun film, but I'm not sure it adds much to the existing body of work - there's only one new character with a speaking role who doesn't actually get a huge amount of screen time, and no new romantic interests for Wallace or Gromit. I don't regret watching it, but it did revisit old themes rather than creating new ones. Feathers McGraw was, of course, a superb supervillain who stole every scene he was in, and there are lots of homages to Doctor Who, James Bond, The Italian Job and other caper films; I think it's a must-view if you're planning to use him in fanfic. But on the whole I think that it would have worked better if it had been much shorter, it's nearly as long as Curse of the Were-Rabbit and the plot is nowhere near as inventive.

Trailer here
https://dai.ly/x97hzwc

For more see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_%26_Gromit:_Vengeance_Most_Fowl
SERIOUS SPOILERS!!!

W&G Heroes

Oct. 15th, 2022 12:55 am
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Since I got a Wallace and Gromit rocket I really wanted some Wallace and Gromit figures to go with it, but nobody actually makes any in role playing sizes. There are some larger cake decorations and 3D printed models around, but reducing the latter to 28mm scale would be very tricky, and need a high-resolution resin printer - and there are some practical problems, not least Wallace has a VERY narrow neck which would be weak as part of a model that small. It might be possible to get around this by designing the model to use a metal rod for the neck, but you would be working with tiny parts and I suspect a lot of frustration would ensue.

Eventually I decided to make myself some foldable paper figures instead, using fan-made clip art from a variety of sources that's free for non-commercial projects. I made them double sided with one side a mirror image of the other, so that if they're printed on OHP film they have a slightly 3D look. Unfortunately this doesn't photograph well due to reflections from the acetate, but I hope this gives an idea:

Wallace and Gromit cutouts printed on acetate with spaceship model

Characters depicted are:

Wallace
Wallace in Techno-Trousers (The Wrong Trousers)
Gromit
Piella Bakewell (A Matter of Loaf and Death)
Fluffles (A Matter of Loaf and Death)
Feathers McGraw (The Wrong Trousers)
Moon Robot (A Grand Day Out)
Shaun (A Close Shave)
Preston (A Close Shave)
Preston without skin (A Close Shave)
Wendolene Ramsbotham (A Close Shave)
Lady Tottingham (Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
Victor Quartermaine (Curse of the Were-Rabbit)

My first attempt turned out to be roughly 35mm scale printed out, and it was easy to print that out at approximately 28mm scale by simply scaling it down to 80%. For convenience I've made PDFs in both sizes, and they are on line at the URLs below

https://forgottenfutures.co.uk/album/WG-Heroes-35mm.pdf

https://forgottenfutures.co.uk/album/WG-Heroes-28mm.pdf

To make it as clear as possible, I do not own these characters, the art, or anything else here, and these are NOT for commercial distribution - they are simply a transformative fan work in a slightly unusual format.

I may still try to make figures from modelling putty etc, but they would be for my own use only since they would be a pain to make and VERY fragile. For now, the PDFs are probably a good deal more practical.

ffutures: (The Stig)
Just got round to creating an illustration for my Top Gear / Wallace and Gromit crossover They Saved Milton Keynes, thought it might amuse...

picture )
ffutures: (The Stig)
This is Top Gear / multiple surprise crossover fanfic, and a bit silly. You have been warned. And yes, it's finished!

Earlier parts are here or here.

They Saved Milton Keynes: 5 )

Comments please before I post to archives.

I assume that there are some Top Gear fanfic communities around somewhere - if anyone wants to bring this to their attention please do!
ffutures: (The Stig)
This is Top Gear / multiple surprise crossover fanfic, and a bit silly. You have been warned. It's now probably going to be five parts, not four.

Earlier parts are here, or soon will be.

They Saved Milton Keynes: 4 )
ffutures: (The Stig)
This is Top Gear / multiple surprise crossover fanfic, and a bit silly. You have been warned.

Earlier parts are here, or soon will be.

They Saved Milton Keynes: 3 )

Comments please before I post to archives
ffutures: (The Stig)
This is Top Gear / multiple surprise crossover fanfic, and a bit silly. You have been warned.

First part is here

They Saved Milton Keynes: 2 )

Comments please before I post to archives.
ffutures: (Wallace & Gromit)
Is it really nearly five months since I updated this? Hadn't realised it was nearly that long. Here's the next part of my BtVS / Wallace & Gromit crossover...

Previous parts are here

The Right Technology - VII )

Comments please before I post to archives
ffutures: (Wallace & Gromit)
Here's the next part of my BtVS / Wallace & Gromit crossover. Previous parts are here. Apologies for the long delay.

The Right Technology - V )

Comments please before I post to archives.

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