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Thursday 28 March 2013

AIRFIX AND ANDERSON



More Airfix kits and this time their occasional association with Gerry Anderson and his series.


First up is the Airfix Stingray model  only available by mail order. I did get one and  remember putting it together . In spite of covering it in glue marks it was still a smashing model -  I really wish I’d managed to hang on to it.



I wonder why Airfix never got the chance to do a Fab 1 kit in conjunction with Lyons Maid Fab or a Thunderbird with Zoom?


Next up the original  Angel Interceptor. Airfix and Anderson in complete harmony. A nice simple model and very pleasing to the eye.



It’s a pity Airfix didn’t do more versions of other Captain Scarlet  vehicles.



The popular Eagle Transporter from Space 1999, another super model and very easy to make.



This was followed by the Hawk Spaceship, which appeared in only one episode of the series - War Games.

You’d think Airfix would have produced  many more kits based on the Anderson series  but sadly it was not to be.


I remember getting the Star Cruiser  -  A Gerry Anderson concept which  really only saw light of day as a half hearted Look-In strip.  But it certainly didn’t have the appeal of the earlier designs, looking to me a lot like a space frog carrying a shed!.



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4 comments:

  1. WOODSY3/28/2013 9:37 am

    Never had any Airfiz Anderson kits. I was deprived! Its an education seeing them all now Scoop!

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  2. WOODSY3/28/2013 9:39 am

    Airfiz? Must be their bubblebath sub-division!

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  3. Patron Zero3/28/2013 8:32 pm

    I seem to recall buying an Angel Interceptor kit at my local hobby shop in the mid 1970s, might have been on one side of the first Star War model kits but definitely that time-frame.

    It was a most attractive little kit even if at that time I had no idea what Captain Scarlet was.

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  4. Richard3/28/2013 11:55 pm

    The Airfix Angel Interceptor is a painful memory for me since I utterly botched it as a child due to my poor model building skills. It was such a unexpected thing to see on the shelf in a local five and dime store in small-town America, and I knew even then it was a rare find...but my hand/eye coordination simply wasn't the equal of my enthusiasm. Still makes me sad to this day! :-(

    Starcruiser 1 never worked for me, at least partly because of the misguided concept. Nothing about that design makes any sense for "interstellar travel." If they'd pitched it instead as a planet-bound craft the whole thing would have made so much more sense. It could be a multipurpose vehicle used by Mars colonists, and already story ideas start to present themselves. Ah well!

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