HOVER TANK AND THE BIG GUN SUB

Chris King, prop collector and blog friend, has kindly allowed me to re-print* these five awesome pictures of his original Century 21 BIG GUN SUB prop from the Stingray TV show. It's a wonderful prop made of wood and kit parts and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Project Sword HOVER TANK, which appeared in the 1969 PROJECT SWORD Annual and the Make a Model Cut Out Book (bottom picture). The original Eric Eden artwork for the Hover Tank backs this up I feel. So, I propose that the Hover Tank and Big Gun Sub are Century 21 cousins.

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* the five pictures first appeared on an Space 1999 Eagle Transporter Forum thread in 2007, which also included a screen grab of the Big Gun Sub in Stingray.

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I'd like to say thanks to Chris for his permission to re-use his brilliant pictures.