I've always liked the brown and yellow Otaki kit Monster racing car after it was discovered as the likely source for the Project SWORD ...

Have a look at this old Japanese Otaki 1964 kit catalogue. On page 11 is the Monster Car, the brown one with 45 on it. Project SWORD toy fan...

Arto alerted me to this Alphadrome thread, with a Moonbase mention http://alphadrome.net/forums/topic/23573-space-car-identification/ Ar...

This caught my eye online. Shooting Star friction race car by Camel, a company I've not heard of before. Sadly there were no pi...

I love this old ad I saw on Yahoo Japan. It shows three of Otaki's model racers. The brown one is the monster based on the ...

Always on the look out for rocket cars here's an interesting one from Remco. Its the rocket attachment  from their Swap Mobile ...

Ages ago I established the likely link between the Otaki Monster car kit and the Project SWORD Probe Force 3. The origin of them all is t...

Proof positive that the Otaki green Monster Car kit was released in 1965. It appears on the back of this Japanese magazine [name?], the...

Last year I established the likely link between the Otaki Monster car kit and the Project SWORD Probe Force 3. The origin of them all is t...

Woodsy, Have a look at the Japanese photo attached and in particular the little yellow vehicle bottom centre - what does it look lik...

Hi  Woodsy,  Got this little book in the post today and this is on one page - maybe you have seen it elsewhere. Terry

Last year I found the connection between the Otaki monster car [above, purple] and the Probe Force 3. I've wondered since if any...

I made two exciting Project SWORD discoveries yesterday. Here's the first one and it pushes back the date for the design of the Probe F...