SHRUNK WORKS: SWORD in Miniature

Wote's cool post about Kinder toys set me off thinking about Miniature SWORD again. Much of the fleet exists in miniature, at a scale much smaller than Spacex, as pictured above [collage not to scale]:

• Probe Force 3, Task Force 3, Task Force 1, Scout 2, Dyna Soar - Unknown Japanese maker, hard plastic [top right]
• Scramble Bug, Space Glider, Probe Force 3, Scout 2, Probe Force 3, Scout 1 - Takeuchi UFO, rubber pencil erasers [top left, from centre of picture. right hand fleet]
• Zero - X - Morinaga - hard plastic sweet premium [centre right]
• Scramble Bug, Moon Prospector, Moon Crawler - Aoshima [re-issued Imai] hard plastic snap together models [bottom, top left to right in picture]

Notable exceptions are Probe Force 1, Scout 3, Nuclear Ferry, Moon Ranger, Moon Bus and Booster Rocket. I have blogged before about possible passable substitutes for the Cape Kennedy set and Apollo Saturn. There is also a small Booster Rocket found in the TB7 [Beetle] Imai kit but none of these are precise enough to be passed off as SWORD.

It is possible that there are more miniatures to be found in Japan. Wote's hard plastic fleet of five seems incomplete and Takeuchi may indeed have issued their missing vehicles as another set of pencil rubbers. But this is pure conjecture on my part. Anyone know?

Finally we come to scale. Having not grown up with any technical capacity whatsoever, scale might as well be the fourth dimension. I have no idea what scale the above miniatures are but more enlightened minds have included some points of reference: the golden astronaut, the coin [100 yen?]. I haven't a clue as to the size of the Aoshima models as I've never seen them in the flesh but I've assumed that they are smaller than Spacex. I would love to see all the SWORD miniatures pictured as a single group and maybe one day it will happen.

P.S. Miniaturising Gerry Anderson vehicles is not just a Japanese pastime. There are many examples in the West old and new and I've included a smattering of pics above:

• Thunderbirds - 1990's game [top left, from centre of picture left hand fleet]
• Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet 1960's cereal premiums [centre left][thanks to Andy B]
• Captain Scarlet SPV - Adventure game 1990's [centre right, slanted][Board Game Geek]

Any more mini Andersons out there?