Saturday 4 January 2020

HARROP ZERO-X 50

I'm sure you will have seen this but here's the old Harrop 50 Years Thunderbirds Anniversary Zero-X statuette.



Picture saved from online.

What do you think of this statuette?

What's happened to Harrop? I can't find them online.

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  1. They are around, a presence on twitter and their website is https://www.robertharrop.com/ They seem to only be focused on their Dr Who license and doggie people. Everything Anderson related is empty, not even a pic of what was offered with SOLD OUT on it.

    It is a nice statue but I'm not a fan of those type of clouds, they tend to look more like icing spillage.

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    1. See what you mean Lance. Thanks for the link. No trace of Gerry Anderson. They've moved on. I know what you mean about the fondant icing smoke of these kinds of statuettes. It can be distracting. I wouldn't mind that Zero-X though!

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    2. I'd have given this one a pass. Their choice of colors for the ZX makes it almost lost against the quite close color of the sky peeking through the clouds.

      It has a lot of issues as well and for $200 US (150 Pounds Sterling) that it was offered for initially (if I recall correctly), there is no way I could justify that amount.

      I've looked at other pics of this moel and they all seem to have the exact same issues:

      Sloppy nonstraight white paint bands
      Red paint lines that waver horridly in thickness making the kit look wonky
      The intakes on the rear looking jagged and unfinished
      Detail stripes crooked down the spine
      Wingtip nacelles on the ZX's port forward and starboard rear bent seriously inward
      The port rudder on lifting wing 1 bent outwards
      The section where the spine of ZX joins the rear engine section is quite rough and unfinished looking
      The main rudder looks out of alignment but not sure if it is just an optical illusion created by the wonky white pinstripe detailing
      Sloppy paint detailing the 8 engines on each lifting wing

      If this was some $20 mass produced toy, the quality might be acceptable. However, for an expensive limited run of 250 adult collectible, it is not worth the price in my opinion.

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    3. Harrop should have had you on the team Lance! $200 is a lot of dosh. I wonder if we'll ever see a new Zero-X in any form come out in the future or has it had its day?

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    4. I keep going back and forth as to whether I should pony up for the rerelease of the large version Zero-X plastic model kit originally manufactured by Imai, reissued recently by Aoshima. Its about $150 US I think, and worth every penny. I so badly wanted that sucker back in the day! A friend in Canada was lucky enough to purchase and build the model in the late 1960s. He had it hanging from the ceiling in his bedroom for years, and good god was I jealous! But realistically, can I do a decent enough build-and-paint job with this monster spacecraft? Without a perfect paint job, it would just not look right...

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    5. I think you should Zigg. Pony up! You'll do a superb job!

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