I've now painted the annoyingly small and fiddly pod vehicles that come with the Thunderbird 2 launch bay kit. They look, hopefully a little less like Kinder egg toys now.
The ones that I think are probably the Imai ones, which aren't terribly accurate, I've made a little display area for, like the garage area we see in one episode.
The 4 that seem to be new are far more accurate. Since you get several, I'm going to put some in the pods when I've made them. The others I've put in a little box frame for display.
Podding off now,
Kevin
UK
A nice spread! I hadn't really thought about it before, but all these subjects are governed by size rather than reality. Seeing the Thunderizer sitting right next to the Mole really points out the size disparity in this range!
ReplyDeleteGood marks for effort in hand painting the intricate details!
BTW, they can be expensive, but brushable chrome paints like Green Stuff World can really give you a finish rivalling vacuum metalized kit parts. Apparently you can also buy super chrome in a marker pen, which would make small detailing easier, but I haven't tried pens yet!
I got an Alcad Chrome pen off amazon for about £6 and its amazing. Finally able to touch up all those sixties space toys that have had the chrome wear off! Bill
DeleteThanks. Yep, an exercise in determination rather than anything else. Scale is interesting. In some scenes you can see they have had to squash the Mole down on its tractor unit to get it through the pod door!
ReplyDeleteI've used the chrome pen, it's brilliant.
That crash tender really does look like the one on the Spacex 2 cardback! I wonder which influenced the other first? Bill
ReplyDeleteI know, it is remarkable isn't it? I don't know if the vehicle actually crops up in Thunderbirds or if it is Imai imagination.
ReplyDeleteFab work Kev. The fleet looks glorious! Great job as always.
ReplyDeleteThank you, most kind.
ReplyDeleteWe know that the inspiration for the SpaceX Crash Tender was a TV21 crash tender by Frank Bellamy featured on MB a few times. The model here is remarkably similar and would look great on a SpaceX backing card Kev! Paul's Triang SpaceX website covers the origin really nicely on one page http://www.triangspacextoys.info/SpGAorig/CrTn_OrF/CrTdrOrP.html Gerry Anderson's model-making people seem to have had completely different crash tenders in the TV show Thunderbirds itself. I remember a young and talented modeller making one in particular from scratch on the Eagle Transporter Forum using contemporary toys and model parts like Derek Meddings et al would have. A great build featured online over several months.
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