I thought I'd have a crack at making one.
More of an impression than a replica.
I opted for a darker blue as I had it in.
The main treadwheel at the front is too big really but I had a green rubber band that slipped perfectly over a Vosene bottle cap.
I looked for a plastic doughnut in our Granddaughter's kitchen set but no luck, so I glued together two plastic crate wheels. They're not big or balloony enough really.
The rear armature is an old plastic house-phone cut down to size.
Check out this amazing old footage of a test run of the real NASA concept vehicle that the Project SWORD Annual called the ANT.
It looks great doesn't it!
What a Century 21 toy it would have made!
I've always been interested in the lesser vehicles sketched in the Project SWORD Annual like this Superon/ Yellow Fox lookalike.
The Superon/ Yellow Fox has appeared on Moonbase many times, for example, in 2011 here:
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2009/11/plastic-toys-used-in-thunderbirds-city.html
It's clearly a fan favourite because UNCL have released the Captain Scarlet Yellow Fox as a new kit, one of a number of new ones.
If you get one and make it then do send us pictures!
Here's UNCL's built model.
The TV21 ad for the TV21 and Captain Scarlet annuals and the and the actual annuals themselves.
Have you got them too? Did you have them as a kid?
Will Os
UK
I'm continually blown way by the late American futurist Syd Mead's fabulous vehicle concepts like his early '60s US Steel ads. It staggers me that he could think these up as the 1950's were just fading. Do you like them?
There's something Meadish in the vehicle illustrations of the Project SWORD Annual 1968. Maybe the Century 21 and TV21 artists were inspired by Syd? What do you think?
Its not often you see a vehicle built around just one or two wheels that isn't a bike.
Here's a good one, Clim's Explorex from Spain, perfect for ascending craters and hills.
I've always liked the Sea Sword that appears briefly in the Project SWORD Annual.
Its a largely a ship but can also travel on dried channels as you can see above.
It would have made a great toy from Century 21 Toys!
Always on the look out for possible stand-ins for the Sea Sword this week I spotted a gorgeous toy craft that might well do.
What do you think?
PS. there is a real craft called Sea Sword from South Korea. Unmanned and military and rather ominous.
I saw this toy box art and thought wow!
Today we,re visiting Barter Books. It’s one of the biggest second hand bookshops in the UK. I may have blogged it before as we,ve been a few times over the years.
I found my first second hand copy of the 1967 Project SWORD annual in a similar but smaller shop called Cuvvins in Whitby 30 years ago. I still have it. My original childhood copy is long gone.
I,ve picked up a lot of Gerry Anderson annuals like this over time.
Have you any Annuals, GA or otherwise? Where did you get them? Email me some pictures for the blog.
Oh my God! I have been checking for footage of this old rover for ages on YT.
Here it is!
