Back in the 1990's when I was fumbling around with my first SWORD checklist, I was in touch with Kelly Lannan, the friendly and approachable editor of the TV Century 21 website back then. At the time Kelly very kindly sent me scanned pictures of this fabulous and rare metallic gold Task Force 3. Unable to be included in the original checklist I have blogged it here before and Anderson Meastro Dennis Nicholson kindly re-sent me the pics in 2008.
Sadly Kelly's spaceship didn't have a cockpit blister so seeing WOTE's beautiful Tarheel customisation this week I thought I'd ask him if he might create a photoshopped one. And hey presto, fifteen years from first seeing it here it is pictured below complete with it's imagineered pilot and dome! Thanks Wote!
P.S. I've often surmised that this scarce gold TF3 is a stablemate of the equally rare blue TF1 shown on this blog before with the kind permission of it's owner, Astronit. Although the current locations of these toys maybe to the contrary i.e Australia and USA, I sort of think that they are either Tarheel colour variants or perhaps even a wholly 'new' range of SWORD clones. I don't think that they are by SL as we know that the SL TF3 is white [pictured below] and it's unlikely that they would have invested in a gold variant as well. Or?
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Top: C21 Task Force 1 and 3
Middle: Blue TF1 and Green Tarheel NOVA [Astronit]
Bottom: Tarheel Task Force 1,2 and 3 [Astronit]
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SL boxed Task Force 3
What a clever use of Photoshop. That app just gets more and more useful in the right hands.
ReplyDeleteWell done, guys.
photoshop is the bees- knees best programme ever made.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is!
ReplyDeleteEven I find it immensely useful, and I have absolutely no artistic skills at all.