DIE-CAST PROJECT SWORD

 Here are the two "Project SWORD" vehicles that have been released as die-casts.

Not branded SWORD in this instance, they are nevertheless legit SWORD craft, as both appear in the Project SWORD Manual.

I give you the Aoshima Zero-X, featured in Scoops ace post yesterday, and the Imai Scramble Bug!

They do look great together and unlike their Century 21 Toys counterparts the scale might be about right!

Have you got either of these beauties?

The New Project S.W.O.R.D Toy Manual by Bill B.

This is my 2024 colour update of the original Project SWORD toy manual which was included with every SWORD toy back in 1967.

Created specially for Project SWORD Day, my new 24-page Technical Manual is intended as an unofficial update to the late 1960’s Project SWORD line, bringing together images of all toys produced for the line and speculating on how the series might have been extended, using existing designs from Century 21 publications and adding in models which fit well with

the SWORD ethos. 

Credit is given where possible and the manual is intended

as a fan publication only.

Enjoy!

Bill

CONTROLLING TRACY ISLAND

The control box on this Japanese Tracy Island model really reminds me of the one on the fable Project SWORD Moon Base Play Set we see in the SWORD manual. What do you think? Click on the lables below for more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLf-WMCzt74

HELP NEEDED! SWORD MANUAL FONT?

Can anyone help me identify the typeface/ font [and size] used in the Project SWORD Official Manual readers?

MORE MANUAL LABOUR

Hi Woodsy,

Saw your post about the Hover Tank manual page. You asked if anyone had done their own Sword manual pages. Years ago I toyed with the idea of doing a new version of the manual with photographic images. I only got as far as trying three pages and didn't really complete those, but here are my attempts.

Take care,

Kevin D

MANUAL LABOUR

I asked recently if anyone had ever had a go at a custom page for the Project SWORD Manual.

Reader Paul V responded with this truly excellent graphic for my new Hover Tank.

Thanks so much Paul!

The Official Manual

No better place to start when admiring these toys than consulting the Official Manual, which came with the Century 21 vehicles during the late 1960's. Designed to be a guide to 'real' vehicles in the Sword Corporation, the Manual is made of thin crinkly light brown paper, strangely pleasing to leaf through and has pictures and descriptions of all the big guns - Zero X, Booster Rocket, Dyna Soar as well as the fabulously named Nuclear Ferry and the Moonbase Playset. Only the Scouts don't get a mention ( more on those cute fella's later).