Hi Woodsy I saw your great Chieftain toy tank from Arto. Very nice. I do not know if you have noticed, but the box top for this Hong Kong t...

I love this model by Nichimo of Japan, a forerunner of the Project SWORD Moon Ranger. Do you have this model or a Moon Ranger? https://www.y...

This is a decent video demonstration of the functions of the 1960 Astro Base by Ideal. Its a You Tubed sales pitch from 2010 by a chap...

This is the Ranger by Nichimo of Japan. It was the forerunner of the Century 21 Project SWORD Moon Ranger. Anyone got one? ...

This is a neat Japanese site explaining the history of Japanese model tanks. It includes the Nichimo Ranger, the source of the Century 21 P...

To search for the Nichimo Moon Ranger then you can use these Japanese characters in Google images. ニチモ 「パイオニア

This amazing collection of some of Japan's amazing plastic SyFy model vehicles appears on akasikogorou's brilliant blog. Yo...

"Since the launch of the "accused submarine" for the first time of the power plastic model in Japan in 1959, energetically po...

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This footage is of a Japanese model tank, which I think is called King Shark by Nichimo. Courtesy of You Tube. Amazingly its underw...

Here's a nice shot I found online of the Japanese Pioneer space ranger by Nichimo [at the back] [picture: akasikogorou ]

I've knocked up this gallery of all the Moon Ranger variants I know of. From left to right [1963 - 1967]: Nichimo Red grey Pione...

Further to my last post and the use of Japanese, I wondered if any reader could solve a mystery. Above are the only two images I hav...

Searching the net in other languages can be fun and rewarding. Last night, using Google translate, I got myself zenned up with a few Japane...

Continuing my look at the Nichimo Carboats, here's the related Nichimo Ranger, which I mentioned in my last post. Released in 1963, it ...

  In the early days of the blog reader Will Schwartz astounded us all with his Character Age magazine from Japan. Will had clearly fou...

What a great week for the Moon Ranger its turning out to be! About 3 years ago reader Rocket Punch, our very own master of Japanese kits,...

If you would like to buy a peice of pre-SWORD history and, unlike yours truly, have a spare £1200 you could have a pop at this NICHIMO CARB...