What If... Fantasy Model Kits - Gerry Anderson (Part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- This is a selection of original artwork for some fictional 'what if..' model kits. Specifically some of the vehicles seen in the Gerry Anderson 1960's TV series 'Thunderbirds'. I wish there had been kits of these really cool air, space, land and sea vehicles. I would have LOVED to have seen on the shelves in my local Hobby shop...and promptly bought them all....And would buy them today!
A huge tip of the hat to Artist ROY CROSS who created so many iconic box tops for Airfix kits in the 1960s and 1970s,
And to DEREK MEDDINGS who is responsible for most of these incredible machines and supervised the visual effects to put them on the screen so believably.
Please feel free to add any comments or questions, and click the LIKE and/or subscribe.
There is more artwork on my website www.matteline.com
Commissions are also available.
There are model 'Thunderbirds' related videos on my channel including one featuring the 'Airfix Girder Bridge'.
• The Girder Bridge and ...
I have been creating this artwork for a few years, but it was seeing some of the Model Kit themed Episodes on the excellent channel - 'Celebrating Aviation with Mike Machat' - @celebratingaviationwithmik9782
As well as the always entertaining 'Max's Models'
@maxsmodels that inspired me to put this video together.
If you like this video, you may also enjoy this video at 'Celebrating Aviation with Mike Machat' Macjathttps
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Thunderbirds is available on Blu-Ray (beware the 16 x 9 cropped versions). 
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Brilliant artwork, but you missed my favourite. I would LOVE a model of Crablogger. Environmentally dubious, but what a machine.
They did have some absolutely wonderful vehicles. I'd say these people remain unequalled in terms of their levels of creativity and skills, no one today could come close to their wonderfully imaginative ideas. You created some wonderful artworks here, what a wonderful world it would be if these were available.
What great artwork and concepts, I hope Airfix take your hint . 👍😎Thanks for showing 👍
Lovely of you to bring back so authentically faded memories, like 'where are they now?' school friends.
Stunning and huge fun to view your take on combining the Airfix with the Anderverse ❤
Thanks. It is fun,
I watched all the Gerry Anderson shows, from Stingray onwards. I would have loved any of these kits, if they had ever been produced. They would still be selling today. Your work is amazing. Keep them coming.
Thank You :)
I loved Fireball XL5. It started my love for all things Gerry Anderson.
Your illustrations are fabulous!
Superb, having grown up in the 60’s watching thunderbirds and building Airfix I’d have bought and made all of them, always wanted a FAB 2, lady Penelope’s yacht, box art is stunning
Thank You. Yes, just so much great stuff.
Thank You.
There is a Fireflash 144th scale out there it was released again from the Gerry Anderson site recently!
It's part of the Thunderbird model kits!
I know there is a 1/350th Fireflash made by Aoshima (currently re-released by UK based AIP I believe). I am aware of a 'studio scale' resin kit- approx 30" long? (Closer to 1/72nd Ithink).
Loved all the Gerry Anderson shows I collected TV21 comic newspapers , happy days .
Fantastic box art. I loved Thunderbirds.
Thank You.
Stunning artwork - and such a clever idea 👏👏👏
Thank You. Glad you like it!
Turning things around it was always fun to identify parts of real model kits or toys used in the shows. I believe the Terrahawks land train (or overlander) used wheel and tire sets from the original Tamiya Wild Willy kit, while Gerry must have sourced almost all the UK imports of the Topper Toys Tiger Joe tank, which was real beast but would only move in a straight line. This made it ideal when it was tarted up as the Gray and Houseman Co Pathfinder vehicle. A modified Pathfinder was also briefly seen (repainted in yellow as opposed the red of the original) in Atlantic Inferno as the Australian Road Company - Road Construction Vehicle.
Thanka for taking the time to comment. Your words are music to my ears. I have made two videos on the Anderson kit-bashing. One on some of the vehicles with Caterpillar Tracks and one on the use of the Girder Brildge. Check out my channel.
Love your fantasy boxes for Thunderbirds kits. This group is great and I'd buy quite a few of them if they were real!
Brilliant artwork and content -mention of the silver airfix plastic take me back !
add to your 'what-if's' from UFO, The UFO itself, the SHADO modile, Ed Straker's car and the moonbase interceptors... maybe even SID !
wow.. Bob Bell spent many evenings in home and as a child i never knew anything but he would bring toys from the sets , old now and wish i knew what i know now
One can only imagine... incredible! Thanks for sharing
Wonderful, thank you 😊👍👍👍
Ah if only. Top marks for imagination and great box artwork.
I’m grinning from ear to ear at the tantalising smorgasbord you’ve laid before us. Rick “ Ping” O’Shea would be proud that his pirate radio station satellite got a mention. Thank you!
Spent my childhood glued to the telly watching everything Gerry Anderson & co put out, and buying all of the Airfix & other kits and the Corgi/ Dinky die-cast vehicles too. Then later, as a 35-40-something, I just had to leave work early in order to watch the original Thunderbirds episodes when they were re-aired in the late afternoon slot in the 1990s. Happ, happy days ...
WOW!! Loved every second of this presentation.
Thank You!
Excellent art work. I grew up with the Gary Anderson TV shows. Had the TB kits and a couple of Capt. Scarlet kits. Wish some company would come out with kits from all the shows and in a more adult based set up. The original IMAI kits were playable model toys.
The new Aoshims stuff is great - Thunderbirds 1,2,3,4 !and Fab 1. And the Fireflash. Although a little on the small side.
The Mole and the Recovery Vehicle are excellent. And the iconic caterpillar section can be shanghaied and customised for other scrtach built pod vehicles.... for those adventurous enough to tacke that on!.
@@awol1703 If they are not just re-pops of the IMA kits then it is great. I hade them all and they were more toy than model. The Aoshima kits cost an arm and a keg in Canada. Buying them online is also expensive with exchange, shipping, and the taxes applied by our federal and provincial governments.
Class video, I really enjoyed this, there wasn’t a kit in there that I wouldn’t build
Fantastic ! Would have been so happy for Airfix to manufacture these kits.
Outstanding my man!..A superb clip which brought back many fond memories of childhood and model making. I sincerely believe that ‘Airfix’ would prosper greatly if these models were produced
There is always 3d printing!
quite superb .... or should I say FAB !
Great idea you came up with....SAF...Saudi Air Force?.....Before Airbus- there was SKYTHRUST....man, the possibilities....I loved SKYSHIP...Very detailed interior...TAKE MY MONEY, these are great kit proposals.....I would've loved just the Martian rover section of the Mars Probe as a kit...I bought a shirt and 3 pricey books from FAB to support his son for all the TV memories....Miss you Gerry.
I started with a 'Fireball XL5' with a rubber band and a parachute and later an elastic band powered 'Stingray' for the bath.
I remember a few years later, as a kid when I bought an 'Angel Interceptor' kit. I made it and showed it proudly to my father who was an old school Aeronautical Inspector with De Havilland, Hawker Siddley and BAe. He said it looked great, but something like that could never fly? I always thought it bore a reasonable semblance to quite a few fourth generation fighters. It was one of the futuristic kits that inspired me to join the RAF in the mid-seventies too. Ironically, most of my twenty odd years, were spent working on aircraft designed before I was born!
Fun topic thanks for sharing.
During the weekdays would get home from first grade just in time to watch stingray. I purchased most of the Anderson shows from prime video.
I love your paintings! Fantastic work.
You put a lot of work into this.
Thunderbird 2 was by far my favourite. I had the 'toy' version with gorky looking yellow legs that folded rather than operated telescopically. An accurate decent sized T2 would be FAB!
There are soem Japanese companies that do some really nice big TB2s.
You kind of reminded me of a memory I have of being in school in 1974 ,and me and my mates imagining fantasy model kits ...the Crucifixion of Christ ,Moses and the 10 Commandments, Spartacus,Jason and the Argonauts 7 Headed Hydra Diorama ..stuff like that ...brill video ...loved it ...nice one
Thank You. Those sound like cool kits. I know Aurora did several historical kits such as John F Kennedy sitting in an armchair... contemplating presidential things. Some classic mythology, or Religious kits would be fun.
@@awol1703 deffo aye ...I can see it now ,messing round in the school yard ,imagining the bricks being box ends of the imaginary kits ...imagine the Revel "Moses" diorama "Parting the Red Sea " ?
@@mitelyod Ahh the days of model shops with shelves, walls really stacked high with kits of all shapes and sizes. Those were the days!
@@awol1703 I'm sure there was a gladiator kit as I remember having one
Love Thunderbirds, my mom turned me on to Gerry Anderson in the early 90's when I was a kid. Would love these as model kits. Well done sir.
Thank you. Do you have a favourite machine or vehicle?
Utterly brilliant 😎😎😎
Very much enjoyed your artwork 👍👍😎😎
What an enjoyable video!. Seeing as how Thunderbirds came out in 1965, A solid case could be made, that Alan Tracy's BR2 (@6:35) inspired Dodges 1969 Daytona ?....Streamlined nose, Bulges over the front wheels, and of course the rear stabilizer.
Thank you for sharing.
Your artwork, and your imagination, are stunning, sir.
Thank you!
Oh gosh, for a moment I thought you were announcing new releases...
If only, heh?
Fireball Junior, Stingray, a Terror Fish, Agent X-20s sub, so many great vehicles to choose from.
I would love to see a Stingray model concept, too, as well as a SPV. These were made into plastic models in Japan, but they were more like toys rather than scale models.
I would love a kit model of the Stingray sub, the aircraft they showed occasionally, and the Supercar. I never saw Thunderbirds growing up, just never shown here in my youth in the 1960s/1970s. But I have recently seen a few episodes in recent years.
Few Airfix kits were available here (Florida, USA) in my youth, but having retired avfew years ago, I am making up for that! 😎
What a fun video and wonderful "what if" artwork. My childhood. I had two angel interceptors, lovely white plastic. Airfix were such an innovative company, they did several Bond tie- ins, given that Gerry Anderson was huge in the 60's, it is surprising that they didn't do some other kits.
I am really curious as to why Airfix only did the Angel Interceptor, as they were obviously in contact with the Anderson team. Still, at least we got that and the terrific Roy Cross artwork.
@obi-ron The Hawk was an OK kit. But the Eagle was pretty dreadful. I think both were MPC kits that were sold by Airfix.
@@Matteline actually, the story goes that, after the success of the Airfix Spectrum Angel kit, Gerry Anderson approached Airfix and showed them the design for the Eagle BEFORE the series began and arranged a merchandising deal which gave free access to a number of models, before they were released for sale to the general public, and these were used in the series, usually getting blown to bits in the process. Remember this is the 70s, when there were no CGI SFX and everything was done on tight budgets with bits of string and washing-up liquid bottles. Also, did you know that when Derek Meddings was asked if he could build the original design for the Millenium Falcon in Star Wars, he had to admit that he pretty much already had, because the original version was remarkably similar to an Eagle transporter? The familiar shape of Han Solo's ship was a rapidly developed second attempt to avoid possible copyright issues.
@obi-ron The Eagle kitbisnoffldd becaue it is such a shodddy representation. The Angel Interceptor (years before) was pretty good and the Hawk looks like an decent kit - good quality for the time and price - wirthy of the Airfix name. The Eagle kit was such a disappointment. I think the Millennium Falcon story is from when Brlian Johnson was first approached to do the vfx on the film (but was committed to Space:1999 Season 2 and was unavailable).
You are super awesome the sidewinder is super cool keep up the superb work
A lot of Gerry Anderson stuff has been done by UNCL models. Currently they have the Yellow Fox transporter and the half track. You may find some of their older kits available online. My prize catch is a 1/72 Skydiver by another company.
Thank you for another excellent trip though what should have been, but wasn't quite. I remember building the Angel Interceptor when I was in grade school (in America,) circa. 1969. My kit didn't come with decals, so I used some leftover decals and painted mine in the SEA USAF camouflage scheme . . . .
The one model I wanted when I was a kid was the Jupiter 2 from "Lost in Space." Supposedly, Aurora considered making one, but in the end decided it was, ". . . too plain and simple, and probably wouldn't sell." I can't help but think if they did, they might not have gone out of business some ten years later.
Thanks for posting this! 1st Like.
Thanks. Glad you like the video .Yes I recall the Aurora TV/Sci-Fi kits had a list of similar kits available.. maybe on the reverse of the instruction sheet, and I could swear the Jupiter 2 was on there, along with the Chariot. I had the Polar Lights Jupiter 2 kit from the late 1990s (the 1/72nd) one a few years back and it was pretty good as I recall.
But it was one of my first attempts with an airbrush and well, and ended up with a very coarse, matt silver finish...... the model is now lost ...in space :)
@@Matteline Though the Jupiter 2 was one of Aurora's most requested kits, we wouldn't get one until the Polar Lights kit from 1998, (or about a year after the "real one" was launched by Alpha Control.) And at the time, the only model of the Chariot was the under scale example that came with their LiS cyclops scene kit.
Another kit we should have got but didn't was when Aurora pulled their plans for a Batcopter in 1/32nd scale around 1968. Even after the "Batman" craze 'ended,' they could have still made it as a stock H-13 / Bell 47; which we wouldn't get until Revell brought one out in 1994 - or about eleven years after the final season of "M*A*S*H."
I look forward to your next slideshow of Fantasy Model Kit boxes!
Have you seen the other video? More general TV and sci-fi stuff. LInk is in the description.
@@awol1703 Yes, I have. These Fantasy Model Kit boxes are incredible!
They were all fantastic, I want them all!!! The Airport Emergency Set would have to come with figures. Thank you for the trip back in time, the box art are perfect Airfix kits presentations, wonderful work.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO! I grew up with both Thunderbirds and Airfix so this resonates on every level. Though it's hard to fault your box artwork I can easily imagine Roy Cross doing the same. Thoroughly enjoyable!
Thank You - can you imagine if Roy Cross painted some of this stuff? The Angel Intercepor box art is gorgeous. Can you imagine Thunderbird 2 is painted by Roy Cross?
@@awol1703 Ooh yeah. Roy Cross is easily one of the greatest artists of all time. He seemed to be able to do anything- planes, ships, cars, you name it. BTW, I just watched your other 'Fantasy' box art video. Love your work and hope to see more!
I didn't know that this series existed and i love it,heep up the good work 😊😊😊😊.
Thank You. Glad you are enjoying the videos.
Wonderful!
Thank You
Wonderful artwork and a great concept overall.
Yes outstanding!
Both this one and you're other video!
The nine year old in me so wants these classic kits and it amazes that these weren't actually made, the Dr Who and Anderson range would have been massive Sellers and highly prized collectors pieces today.
Another what it I'm surprised Airfix never did was land and water speed record cars and boats.
Donald Campbell's Bluebird cars and boats would have made excellent choices for kits as would have ThrustSSC and Bloodhound.
The Matcbox Liberator would have been another massive seller, the comet miniatures one was pretty crappy!
I would have loved those as a kid....
Ah well thanks for giving us a look at what could have been but sadly wasn't.
According to 1 airfix book they had the art work set up for the Nautilus from 20,000 leagues under the seas plus another 1/12th car 1911 R.R I think ? Makes one wonder how many more they airfix put away for a rainy day ?
In the 60's when the series went out there was a demand for models of the Thunderbird machines. I can't remember quite when they became available but I know I had them. In plastic, (the right colour plastic) I had a Thunderbird 1, 3 & 4 that had clockwork driven wheels. I also had a quite accurate Thunderbird 2 that wasn't clockwork. There was a Thunderbird 5 too, I'd say it had been modified from a previous toy, again clockwork, I think it had flashing lights.
The problem with all of them was the accuracy, you tended to notice the differences more than the similarities.
The J Rosenthal toys. the Thunderbird 4 was a great likeness :)
Beautiful artwork Mat. Funny, I just sis a hisyory video on Paramount Hobbies (USA) which imported the Japanese kits of the Gerry Anderson craft.
I came across the IMAI 'Anderson' kits in the late 1980s. My immediate excitement was quickly dissipated when i opened the boxes to see so many 'special features' like firing missiles that came out of engine intakes, and the corresponding levers sticking out all over the place. The new Aoshima kits in real scales are excellent. I just finished up the IMAI Mac's car / Jet Air Car from 'Joe 90' and will be posting a short video o the upgrades I did to get it to be a better representation of the real thing. It is funny building models of models :)
Gerrymandering Andersons shows ever.
I seen a model company had put out angel flite and and the main thunder birds are go . They where in a small scale.
Fantastic video. Really great idea. If these models really started to be produced, I would definitely be one of the first to buy them. Greetings, Aleš 🙂👍
wonderful work
0:25 What's that machine with Thunderbird 2 in the bottom left corner? Edit: apparently Skyship One from "Thunderbird 6", which I haven't seen.
My own favourite Thunderbirds vehicle was the forest-eating nuclear-powered Crablogger, which seems pretty appalling today! I think you'd have to put that in 1/600th scale to get it on a bookshelf ;-)
I've got 1/350 models of both Sidewinder and crablogger. They aren't that big.
@@johnhughes2653 Really? Who made them? When?
@@zh84 Designed by Stargazer Models, cast by UNCL, sold through Timeless Hobbies. You might find the Crablogger still available.
@@johnhughes2653 I've never heard of any of those brands. Interesting!
I built all of those 4 you showed in the first slide! I'd also built two Eagles from "Space: 1999" and so SO mega-disappointed when I got one for my birthday a couple of years ago. Same box except they substituted for Alan Carter's picture for Koenig's and while it came with more decals, the side of the thing was so tiny it was embarrassing, massive disappointment and I'm a fan!
I'm also with you, I'd love it if they'd made those other vehicle models.
I have 2 of the Airfix Angel Interceptors.. i love the 1/72 scale. I would buy it in 1/35 or 1/48 (as they produced the Spitfires and Messerschmidts) I have some of the Japanese Captain Scarlet and Thunderbird models but they just dont look quite... right. Your FANTASTIC artwork has triggered something in my mind that could possibly be scratch built :)
PLEASE send your portfolio to Airfix :)
I have 2 of the interceptors also. One is going to be converted into the MiG prototype stolen by Joe 90 in that series first episode.
Agree here that the vehicle design reflected a futuristic world, besides the iconic Thunderbirds 1-5 themselves. Hornby are you watching? I'll be back for part 2.
April 26, 2023---Foir those interested, there are free stl files on the various Thunderbird vehicles. Just got done downloading all of 'em but the car. There's also a figure set available.
Great "what if" artwork btw!
Many moons ago I entered a competition in TV21, I won a model kit of FAB1, it was all pre coloured and push fit construction, so seeing your concepts brings a smile to my face, if these were made, I would be in modelling heaven, truly awesome artwork!
Thanks for the feedback. I am not aware of the Fab1 you mentioned. How big was it? Was it a good likeness?
Thank you for the feedback. .ore artwork and videos coming soon.
Fantastic these box art are incredible . I did a photo shopped version of Spectrum Patrol Car based on a 60s Corvette Stingray, l also did a photoshop version of a Flying wing painting l did , flying over the image of tge Fire Flash you showed , but these are great 👍
Thank You :)
Great stuff!!!
your artwork is AMAZING
Thank You.
I remember building an Angel Interceptor in it's day. I would love to build a SPV or SPC from the Captain Scarlet series or Lady Penelopes RR. A whole Fireflash, Ambulance/ Fire engine/ Elevator Cars set would be so cool.
Loved the video, glad it popped up in my feed. Kudos to you
Very cool. I'd buy some of those! My ideal kits would be from UFO, a kit of Moonbase and one of SID.. oh and maybe Skydiver too!
I always loved how the name SKYDIVER was split so that SKY was written on the aeroplane part and DIVER was written on the submersible part. Just Cool beyond words. perfection.
The closest we got to having kits like those was with lego. Would love to own some of those ships/vehicles. They never age with time and still look so cool.
What a great video and artwork, instant sub!
Super cool! I'd give my left ( ) for that kit!
Oh, and your artwork is superb sir.
Thanks. Which kit in particular?
Absolutely sensational artwork! I shall be 60 this year, and in my life, there have been three constants: Doctor Who, and the worlds created by Gerry Anderson, and Airfix kits.
Like you, I have never understood why vehicles from a British property, have been available as kits and toys from almost every country, except Britain, until fairly recently. I own most of the Japanese IMAI/Bandai/Nitto/Popy kits, and good results can be acheived if you're willing to do some surgery, to turn a toy into a model. I have Thunderbird 5 & 3 on a shelf in front of me now. I also have a Bandai diecast ZERO-X, which cost me about £200, but everything works on it. Undercarriage, removable lifting bodies, firing escape pod - even the caterpillar tracks on the MEV work. A friend called it 'Toy porn', and he's probably right.
You do incredible work, and seeing it as Airfix box art is really thrilling to me. Thank you. 👍👍👍
Thank you. I am so glad that this resonates with you. You get it 100%. You are who this is for. This artwork started because I just wanted to see these things... if only make believe kit box artwork. I figured some others may feel the same. This comment makes my day. Thank You.
@@Matteline - Rewatching this, I notice your use of the Girder Bridge supports in the foreground of the 'Helijet I' kit. They look good anywhere. I might get a friend of mine to get some designed and 3-D printed - in various sizes for me.
Gerry Anderson could never have too many wheels or jet engines.
You just showed my adolescent wish list!! Well done!! Huge Gerry Anderson fan thankyou for this vid. Mind you, the Airfix Angel Interceptor is actually underscale and comes out around 1/87th (model Railway HO scale or 3.5mm to the foot) as the Airfix model was based on a small studio model. Still fun to build though.
Wonderful stuff, but where is the crab logger? The huge nuclear powered logger that ran amok and nearly destroyed us all? 😊
Your art work is totally awesome. I have subbed so I can catch up on all your other 'videos'. I would love some of your artwork as my windows wallpaper but which would I chose? I would have to change it to a different pic every day. Fantastic art work.
It doubles as a monster cockroach!
I still haven't watched Thunderbirds.. Something I hope to change at some point when I find the free time.
You are in for a treat. Start with the first episode 'Trapped in the Sky'. Avoid both of the feature films: 'Thunderbirds Are Go' and 'Thunderbird 6'.
All 32 episodes are great, although 'SunProbe', 'Move and You're Dead' 'End of the Road' and 'Attack of the Alligators' are some of the ones often cited as favourites among the fans.
@@Matteline my dad told me he loved it growing up and I’ve never been more excited, thanks!
@@Matteline yeah, end of the road, the machines!
I _like_ the feature films. I know they are bad, but the attempt at the scope, at getting complex psycho-drama into these puppets, the idiocy of a craft that is assembled on the runway just before its departure (and spending half an Act on showing this)... glorious failures.
@@DrWhom Good for you! Thanks for taking the time to commenting.
My dad bought me a Zero X as a Christmas present. It wasn't a kit but the wings and nose cone came off as I recall. I think part of it was motorised or wind up. I've no idea who it was made by now though.
Neat! If only!! BTW I have a Fireflash model kit (still in box)
Still not too late for kits of these craft to be made. What about a Sunprobe?
@ 4:16 - you share the same longing for this as a model kit I had back in the 60s, an itch still not scratched. Would have been a best seller! (to me, at least).
1:53 I had that exact kit with the ambulance and fire truck. That was mid 70s so either old stock at the time. Or they made a lot . I'm guessing old stock about 10 years.
The helijet is based on an real idea put forward for a vertical take off and landing aircraft to be used by the US Navy. Things went fine until someone pointed out that the notion of having jet exhausts pointing at the flightdeck was probably not a good one.
nice video ~~
I would have liked a mention of Thunderbird 6 and the car from Condorman. Thank you for you content.
absolutely fab - but what about the Crablogger ! what a kit that would have made..!
Yes. Watch this space.
A lot of the aircraft designs are very unique but I have often wondered if they could really work in the real world
Stop it with the Silver Plastic!!! (LOL)
Another great video and some cracking box-tops. Would you consider doing the side panels for some of these and either selling "reproduction" boxes (this has been done before with Aurora what-ifs) or posting them online for people to make their own?
Edit - just read the video info (must remember to do this.....) - still need the side panels though!
I used to love the old Airfix boxes with images of the other similar/same series kits.
love the sidewinder. too bad it had to be bumped off.
There are a few "what if" that could be built without too much work. Some though would require Meddings level work - LOL
Some of these kits would've been astounding, sadly in the past sci-fi was seen as too "childish", for making kits, they generally tried to sell more "marketable" subjects, as WWII's and modern (for those times) ones. Airfix neverthless made some great pre-Star Wars kits ,as the Eagle and the Hawk from Space: 1999 and the orion shuttle from 2001. But the market was reputed too small for being viable, naturally, looking how Bandai's Gunplas are succesful, they were wrong.
Great work again. When you were creating did you think of doing an Elevator Car?. I think that would make a great kit too. I think TX 204 features in Thunderbirds 1st episode "Trapped in the Sky"
TX 204 also appears in 'The Mighty Atom'. The Elevator Car is superb.
Gambody do some really nice 3d print models. I bought a Robby the Robot for £15 from them and if you have a resin 3d Printer it looks really nice. Transparent is still a bit of a problem but they are getting better. I can imagine them doing a thunderbird model. Cheers
Can you imagine if Airfix made model kits of Chris Foss’s spacecraft?
Could you not show us how you make the background artwork? I think it would be fascinating too!
Great series great " kits", ironically, some of the larger planes have a little of the Russian Ekranoplan look to them. I think there might be a model of it.The Sky thrust airliner as a bit of the SR71 with the D-1 drone.
Thanks. Yes I think k there is quite a big CCCP/ Russian 1950s and 19t0s influence on the design team. I think they (Derek Meddings and Mike Trim) were constantly looking at what was happening in aeronautics and then decided what ideas to incorporate and what to disregard. Great looking stuff!
Thank you for your hard work.
The art work is superb, and you capture the sixties model kit look.
Did you do the art work by hand, or use a computer?
5:18 This appears in a Century 21 comic strip. BTW The USAF pilots do their best to outfly Thunderbirds.
Ahh TV21. This aircraft was in the Thunderbirds View Master pack too as well as severalnpublicitybstills in Tv21. One of it where it is crashed in the ocean with Stingray alongside.
The Martian Space Probe was supposed to have a habitation module behind the capsule - I'l love to have a 1/72 model of that but I can't see the vehicle being feasible for a Mars trip, landing and return unless those engines only use tiny quantities of fuel
I am not aware of this.
It look like it has a decent stack of exhausts on the back. Maybe it separates in the middle and there were more thrusters there - like the Saturn V - for the return trip. Maybe.