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Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Envy is Green! The C21 Angel Aircraft

I'm not blogging much at the mo I'm afraid but the Mighty WOTAN is at the helm doing a super job I'm sure you'll agree!

Here's a little morsel to keep my hand in. These pictures of this beautiful C21 specimen appeared on Ebay a couple of years ago. I do love its sleek design and angular lines. If I didn't know any better I'd say it was one of the PROBE FORCE fleet of spacecraft in PROJECT SWORD! A real stunner. Century 21 Toys did a great job of bringing this Captain Scarlet jet to the toy shelf. Lovely box art too - the rainbow side-panel is a really attractive feature. Wonder who the box artist was? is it similar to the Roy Cross box art on the Airfix kit? Anyone got either or both of them to compare?

I've just thought, it also has a very passing resemblence to the silver jet (top of pic below) that Brains comes up with as a possible Thunderbird 6 in the film of the same name! Who knows?!
Angel Aircraft pictures courtesy of Ebay UK.

2 comments:

Yorkie said...

Had the Angel and the SPV. Worth hundreds now if I'd kept them. Sigh.

WOODSY said...

Ah Yorkie, I feel like that about all my stuff Mum chucked out back then! But would we have parted with them if we still had them?

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