In the early days of the blog reader Will Schwartz astounded us all with his Character Age magazine from Japan. Will had clearly found the forerunner of the SWORD Moon Ranger. Ever since I have been intrigued by the series of four models [pictured left below], which form the Nichimo Carboat series.
Number 2 is the Baron, another amphibious car. Pictures of the box contents and completed model would be welcomed!
Number 3 is the Frontier, a fabulous looking space tank. Box contents, instruction sheet [of Nichimo Tank] and partially made model courtesy of Arto [thanks!].
Number 4 is the Pioneer, the forerunner of the Century 21 Project SWORD Moon Ranger pictured bottom. Here we can see the familiar radar, tracks and front-slung dome cockpit and pilot. Only the front shovel is missing, which Nichimo added to their similar Space Ranger model, the Moon Ranger's origin.
Observations, pictures, videos, stories, remarks or otherwise about any of the four Carboats would be welcomed. [Pictures courtesy of Arto, Noppin and Vectis.]
POSTSCRIPT:
Reader Eric has kindly sent me a piccy of the Nichimo Frontier instructions, which where inside his box.
PICTURE TO FOLLOW.
Interesting to see the Instruction Sheet shown is for a tank. I had assumed that the chassis was a re-use of a tank kit, hence the green colouring of the lower hull/wheels on the unmade-up kit.
ReplyDeleteMost of these Jaspanese frims were producing large-scale tank kits at the same time as their space models, I think.
Thre main problem was that the rubber tracks perished!