Here is a very unusual, and obscure model - the Fujimi kit of St. Edward's Crown, kit number CR1-600. I found a review of it in the old British modelling magazine Scale Models, on the excellent Internet Archive site.
The July 1970 issue contains a review of the kit, by the Japanese Fujimi company. A 1/3rd scale model of St. Edward's Crown, along with a sceptre, and base.
The completed model stands 133 mm tall, and has a width of 96 mm. There are 200 parts in total.
The review says the crown is painted gold, but in the few photographs I could find it looks to be chrome-plated ? The various jewels in the crown are clear coloured plastic, representing diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, and pearls - I should think these would account for most of the parts.
The kit also came with purple velvet, and white fur (but you have to paint on the black ermine spots). It seems to be the only such kit that Fujimi ever issued.
The kit does get an entry on Scalemates, where it is described as a New Tool, and dated 1969.
This seems like a very odd choice of subject for a Japanese kit company. It appears to have been very short-lived, and to have never been re-issued.
Two photographs from Worthpoint.
Paul Adams from New Zealand
...a missed opportunity for the recent Coronation!
ReplyDeleteAmazing! One wonders what the intended audience for something like this was? Maybe in museum gift shops? Still, what an amazing stretch of the model kit imagiination! SFZ
ReplyDeleteI get the impression modelling was a much bigger deal in the Sixties than now. All subjects were game. Do you think modern kids model zigg?
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