Here's a classic and quite beautiful SF model from Japan's Golden Age, the Crawler by Imai issued in either 1967 or 1968.
It was released in Canada as the Space Invader by Paramount Hobbies somewhere around 1969 or 1970 as pictured.
This is the first in an ongoing series of iconic Japanese SF models built, painted and showcased by American reader and modeller Rob C. Rob ran the brilliant but sadly now defunct Japan Super Fantastic Models Website for many years, which I consulted often.
Its spirit lives on though in Rob's cool blog of the same name and you can see and read more about the Paramount Crawler there
On behalf of Rob over in Connecticut, USA
Enjoy!
A really lovely model and paint job Rob! The radar remonds me of the Apollo Tracker in the Triang SpaceX range. I think there maybe something similar by Marx toys as well. What do you think JSF means written on the front of the Crawler?
ReplyDeleteThat's an awesome piece of space hardware. A beautiful model :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this! This sucker took two months to complete! A lot of fudging necessary, too. A few parts were missing, as well as half of the decals. And I would have picked a darker blue if I had to do it all over again. But it's still a sweet machine. My guess is JSF stands for Japan Space Force.
ReplyDeleteNo probs Rob. You did a great job especially if parts were missing! I like your idea as to what JSF means!
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