As already established, I love miniatures. I especially love miniature SWORD lookalikes so I was amazed to find that Takara of Japan have made a small snap-together version of our friend the Cape Kennedy set or for non- Swordies, the Saturn V launchpad [above left]. They have also produced a small model of the rocket blasting off [above right and very top picture - aka 'Rocket Summer']. Both models are around 4 or 5 inches all [re. the 'coin' scale, I can't tell what the coin is! - picture from Ebay]. I assume that both models are plastic and pre-painted and they would look cool next to the proper Japanese SWORD miniatures unearthed so far.
Yet further mini revelations await the Saturn V enthusiast as the UK firm Highworth Mountford have created what appears to be a beautiful cast metal model. It comes unpainted but has lots of decals and is just 4 inches tall! [picture Ebay]. For more detailed pictures see here. I can't decide if the Takara version above is the more SWORD toy-like. You?
Finally, here are three lovely 'weathered' Imai SWORD miniatures recently seen on fleabay. I had a pop at then but as usual missed out. Still I have archived the picture for posterity. What colour scheme would you have used on them?
If those little Saturn V gems are around 4 inches high then that puts the scale at around 1/1473....hehe!
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The coin is an American quarter(aka 25 cent piece)
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