It’s a wonder some of the kitbashed aircraft didn’t survive? They look like they could’ve escaped the studios in a briefcase rather than being trashed? Do we know what happened to redundant models? Or did models from one episode get pulled apart and repurposed for models in the next?
From the first episode ever watched - I instantly recognised the Airfix railway girder bridge in many of the TB models. Once seen, you can’t unsee those trusses! However, I had no idea there were loads of other models cannibalised for parts - the model makers must have used a significant piece of their budget on kits! Great video - thoroughly enjoyed it.
I didn't know about the girder bridge until I happened across it an old model shop. I did as a kid recognise the Saab Draaken as the basis for the Red Arrow fighter (albeit not the Airfix kit that I had) and I recognised the Matchbox Cooper Jarret lorry that go to and fro at London Airport.
12:36 - Notice the No.4 numeral on pod 4 is coming unstuck. One thing I do like is previous to that, when the pod gets dropped into the water, it has what I'd call a realistic wobble as if there is some weight there.
I think they did a terrific job with the visual effects. It is a really believable world. But one thing to single out, that they got 'perfect', was the movement of the aircraft and vehicles. If you look at the lift-off of Thunderbirds 1. 2 and 3 as examples, you can really feel the weight of these things and the thrust - which is clearly very powerful - takes several moments to actually start to moving it. Superb. The cars and trucks move at just the right speed, too. These things just look 'right'.
There kits arent all that large & so there must have been problems with lighting & scale. ive seen the making of's- ALIENS & STARSHIP TROOPERS etc the model Space ships built there were like 10ft long x 3ft high I suppose to allow movement mechanics, interior lighting etc
Yeh. I believe they had a pretty limited space to shoot the vfx - and the puppet scenes come to that - so in order to get the shots that specified a certain size for the models. I look at the original Thunderbird 2 during the launch sequence, and it looks massive. It was about 3 feet long - one of the larger models.buikt for the series. It is a really beautiful model. And really well shot.
HELLO AGAIN. SINCE YOU PRODUCE A ONGOING SERIES OF BOX COVER ARTWORK FOR IMAGINARY MODEL KITS THAT WERE NEVER MADE, AND SINCE THE SUBJECT MATTER IS GENERALLY SCI-FI, FANTASY & ACTION-ADVENTURE....I FIGURED IT WOULD ONLY BE A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE YOU CAME TO PORTRAYING THIS ICONIC VEHICLE: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG. CORGI MAKES A NICE 1/36 SCALE DIECAST, COMPLETE WITH FIGURES & OPENING WINGS.... UNFORTUNATELY, THEY LEFT OUT A VITAL COMPONENT THAT WOULD HAVE MADE THE IMAGINARY CAR WORK. THE TOY MAKER MATTEL RELEASED A VERSION APPROXIMATELY THE SAME SIZE AS CORGI, WHICH CAME IN A MODEL-TYPE BOX WITH RATHER CARTOONISH ART WORK. THIS TOY ALSO HAD OPENING WINGS AND IT EVEN HAD A YOU-INFLATE-IT FLOAT FOR WATER TRAVEL...MADE IN THE PROPER PURPLE COLORS. BUT THIS CAR, TOO DID NOT INCLUDE THAT VITAL COMPONENT WHICH I REFERRED TO PREVIOUSLY. IT ALSO DID NOT PORTRAY THE EXISTENCE OF THIS VITAL COMPONENT IN THE BOX ART. I EVEN FOUND A 1/18 SCALE (That's about the size of a shoe box) VERSION ON EBAY FOR OVER $400. LOOKS NICE, BUT THE SAME COMPONENT IS MISSING. I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED WITH THE PATIENCE AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL WHO COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT PIECE I AM TALKING ABOUT. (You're also the only other person besides me who would even give two hoots wether this component is there or not). I WON'T TELL YOU WHAT IT IS.... I'M SURE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT. I WILL GIVE YOU SOME CLUES, THOUGH. *FLYING THROUGH THE AIR WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT IT. *TRAVELING ACROSS THE WATER REQUIRES IT AS WELL. IT'S VERY CLOSE TO WHERE JEMIMA & JEREMY SIT IN THE BACK. *ONE OF THE FEW TIMES IN FILM THAT YOU CAN SEE IT CLEARLY IS ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE MOVIE WHERE IT'S NIGHT AND THE CHILDREN ARE ASLEEP.....THE CAR IS QUIETLY FLYING ALONG WHILE THE TWO ADULTS TALK. I'M STOPPING HERE. TALK ABOUT RAMBLING!!! SHEESH! CHALON.
..well, there is a propellor that sticks out the back of the main.qooden body. I believe the Aurora model.kit.has this rear propellor.amd thw two.wimg mounted propellors. Here is a link to the scalemates page. www.scalemates.com/kits/aurora-828-300-chitty-chitty-bang-bang--192468
I have to say, the excellence of your Airfix Fireball XL5 covers makes me weep for the models not made. Not that ANY of your box tops are bad, just those Fireball ones hit really hard. 😁 And this is a rant! We live in a nostalgia world, in many ways. There is no rational reason that Airfix couldn’t make this kit today. Sure, I can list all the cold, mathematical reasons why they shouldn’t, and if they depended on a short production run selling out within a month to cover costs and make profit, might be a hard sell. But oh would it ‘hit’ in Japan. And all over the place. Buuut so many companies are oddly risk-adverse while willing to go all-in on other projects that nobody really gets excited about. But keep that Angel Interceptor! Don’t even think of modding the tooling to make the kit better! Bah. Beautiful artwork, and always a pleasure to see what you do next!
I had a wonderful childhood (apart from secondary school) and Roy was a MASSIVE part of that. He had a way of making the young me think I was in the actual scene he was depicting. Certainly tricked little me into buying the occasional 'dud' kit that lurked within the sealed box.😧
I had a plastic model kit of Fireball XL5, back in the early 1960s, when I was about 10. I ordered it from a magazine and went round to my Nan's, to make it, when it arrived. Funny I'm 72 now and can recall that but sometime can't remember what I had for dinner the previous day!
Always loved Gerry Anderson's shows and I've got the album of Jeff Wayne's War of the World's with the accompanying art book. Never realised the connection! Great stuff, thanks.
Interesting video presentation! When did Tamiya make these "Joe 90" TV series model vehicles? I thought that I had a rather comprehensive knowledge of basically all the different types of models that Tamiya has made, since the 1960's, but I never knew Tamiya made these models. I believe Bandai made some models of the "UFO" TV series vehicles, & I think another Japanese model company (I can't think of the company's name) may have, as well.
Hello. I don't know much about the Tamiya kits. I only be ane aware of them when I watched a youTuvbe video of someone touring the Tamiya museum.in Japan..They have a built-up kit and/or box of every kit they have ever made, including the wooden battleship kits from the 1950s. I was surprised to see the Explosives Truck and the U89. I imagine the Joe 90.kits were made aroumd 1968/69, when the show was made. The kits are on Scalemates. I don't know if the Mac's car had all the gimmicky stuff when first made (by Tamiya) or if this was a later embellishment by Imai. But even without all that, the shape of the main body is pretty off.
HI THERE! IT'S "HYDRONAUT GUY" CHALON. I WAS WATCHING YOUR WHAT IF? PART 11 AND IT REMINDED ME OF ANOTHER GREAT SCOOBY-DOO VILLAIN. IT'S SEASON ONE 1969 AND IT SHOULD BE EPISODE 15 "SPOOKY SPACE KOOK". THE INSANELY LAUGHING SKULL-SPACE-MAN WHO WAS AT HIS WORST WHEN HE WAS WALKING RIGHT TOWARDS YOU. HAUNTED MY DREAMS AS A KID, THAT ONE DID! THE EPISODE TAKES PLACE AT A ABANDONED MILITARY AIRFIELD. AT THE START OF THE SHOW, ONE MY FAVORITE SPACE SHIPS MAKES AN APPEARANCE: A "FLYING DUTCHMAN" HAUNTED SPACE CRUISER.... COMPLETE WITH COBWEBS AND A PULSATING GLOW. EVEN AS A CHILD, I CAN REMEMBER SAYING TO MYSELF, "They'll NEVER make a kit out of that one!"
I remember that very episode of Joe 90 with the 6 wheeled trucks and I remember trying to re enact it with my solitary matchbox stalwart in the garden. Love the Martian tripod. There was a chap from Wales who manufactured a range of them in 1/300 in metal. I wish I'd kept mine now.
Great video as ever. The F118 model from Joe 90 was reused by the BBC for the Dr Who story Colony in Space, so Airfix could've got more mileage out of the kit by re-releasing it as a Dr Who tie in!
.....hmmm.. Well, I am not quite sure how to respond to this. 'Thunderbird 6' - the Tuger Moth - s included in video #12 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pT5Sr4bf2ZQ.htmlsi=jJHiAIQ40VB6opki But I think you are more likely referring to 'Skyship one'. This is included in the first Gerry Anderson video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UVnVsWH1s5A.htmlsi=A2tfd5DjMVsBh1Mc
WOW. THANKS FOR THAT LINK YOU GAVE ME. TALK ABOUT PUSHING MY BUTTONS......THE CAVORSPHERE, THE HYPERION, THE LANDMASTER AND THE HYDRONAUT!! EVERYTHING THAT YOU COULD NEVER GET. ON RU-vid THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE TRYING TO DO SOME OF THESE FROM SCRATCH, BUT IT TAKES TIME. ONE PERSON IS WORKING ON A ELECTRIC R/C LANDMASTER, BUT HE'S STILL HAVING SOME TROUBLE WITH THOSE SPECIAL WHEELS. ON EBAY A PERSON USED A 3D COMPUTER PRINTER TO MAKE THE HYDRONAUT.....AND THE SIZE IS JUST ABOUT WHAT YOU DESCRIBED. I'M HAVING HIM INSTALL LIGHTS IN IT FOR ME. I'VE ALREADY RAMBLED ON TOO LONG. THANKS AGAIN! CHALON
...there's never too much rambling when talking about things you love! I'd love to see a pic of the Hydrinaut model when it is done. It sounds really cool. A forgotten, or largely unknown gem. Thanks for watching.
So, looks like you spent your time since the last installment binging on Joe 90 episodes?! Anyway, time we'll spent - some great boxarts. I can't believe the Imai Mac's Jet Car is a repop of a Tamiya kit - the kit is a dog from the videos I've watched. I have one in the loft and it's staying there!!!
I was reluctant about tacklling the IMAI Mac's car... I figured it was going to look awful. But I thought I'd give ut a go. I did a lot of work to mine... probably about as much as can be done without throwing it away and starting from scratch. But I am pretty happy with the end result..
Fwiw, I’m pretty sure that the Joe 90 ‘Mac’s Car’ by Tamiya and Imai are different, separate kits, not shared tooling. I’ve seen pics of the Tamiya kit (some Japanese book on sci-fi kits if I recall) and the front wheels did fold up into the body. Back in the ‘60s plastic models of sci-fi subjects were still mainly ‘play models’ (the original root of ‘Plamo’, now used for ‘plastic model) so action features were the rule of the day. Tamiya was on the cusp of starting their Military Miniatures branding for 1/35 scale kits, and even 1/35 scale wasn’t settled yet as a common scale for a subject like tanks. If you look at history you’ll see scales all over the place, including a surprising number of kits in 1/24 scale and larger. But again they were ‘play models’ with rubber treads and motors and sometimes wired remote controls, and soft detailing. The kit for the Time Tunnel is both brilliant and childish. The Jupiter 2 is hopeless. 😁 The ‘70s is when scale modeling really exploded in Japan and the fight for market share was on! There’s a future subject to consider. What if Tamiya had chosen to keep a foot in the SF market? What if they threw that MM series detailing at it? Perhaps a Chariot from Lost in Space, with separate packs for Crash site camp and so on.
@@steveharrison9901 Cheers Steve - some great insight on Tamiya's "dark history" (lol). Having, for the most past, got over my military modelling phase, I've tended to ignore them but I might have to check out history books / websites etc. I know what you mean about the "toy" aspect - I'm sure we've all got loads of those old Imai Thunderbirds kits in the stash (thank heaven for Aoshima!) BUT WHY DID THEY HAVE TO DO IT TO MY MARINE BOY P1 SUBMARINE ?! 😢 😢 😢 Yes, a real shame they didn't continue with scifi, although with Moebius, Round2 and now X-Plus (plus Bandai etc. For the Robots and Cozmic for everything else), I guess we've caught up to some extent - or not if these videos are anything to go by!!! Best wishes and here's to the next Hanslope!
@jeffholt9437 The IMAI kit I built did have front wheels that folded up. But they folded up horizontally into big fkat circualr wheel bays in the belly. The actual wheels in the TV show retract vertically. I don't know if the iMAI kit is the same as the TAMIYA as I have not seen the latter in the flesh. I think scalemates has it listed as the same kit. Possibly ut got retooled. .
My introduction to Gerry Anderson was the Super Marionation series Stingray. Then came Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet. Then two live action series, UFO and Space: 1999. I started building model kits around 1970. To have had ANY kits based on any of those series would have been awesome! A suggestion, if I may. One scale that you chose for some of the really large subjects 1/144 would work well. However, for others, there are more common scales for certain subjects that would be better suited. Standard military vehicle scales are 1/6, 1/16, 1/35, 1/48 ,1/72, 1/76, and 1/87. Ship scales run 1/72, 1/100, 1/144, 1/200, 1/350, and 1/700, Aircraft go 1/24, 1/32, 1/48, 1/72, and 1/144. Cars and trucks run 1/8, 1/9, 1/12, 1/18, 1/ 24, 1/25, 1/43, and 1/64. There are some overlap between subjects, currently you can find military aircraft and vehicles in 1/350 and 1/700 for ships that carry these. You can also find smaller military watercraft and helicopters in 1/35 to combine them with the massive amount of bits and bobs for detailing military vehicles, especially figures. I suggest these to aid your creativity, and not to in any way disparage or stifle it. Oh, and thanks for introducing me to the genius behind the designs of some of my favorite SciFi vehicles!
Thanks for the input. I try to make the imaginary kits realistic to the manufacturer and the era. Airfix, being a great British company and the Gerry Anderson shows, is a great British success story, so having the Anderson stuff as Airfix kits seems sort of 'right'. For whatever reason, they did their cars and AFVs in 32nd scale. Not 35th. So I am trying to honour that. Similarly, their ships.kits were 600th, not 700th. And they didn't really do.48th or 350th. So for me it is balaning the 'credibility' and choosing what would actually be a good size and a scale is always a balance.
No fair...I want the Rita...and basically all of them. Wages of fear has been remade recently. Its on Netflix. I doubt it will be worthy of the shadow of the original.
HELLO AGAIN. THIS IS A FOLLOW-UP TO MY "HYDRONAUT" MESSAGE. I JUST WANTED TO SAY YOU'RE ART IS TERRIFIC. YOUR PAINTINGS OF THE JUPITER 2 AND THE NAUTILUS ARE JUST THE WAY I PICTURED HOW THEY WOULD LOOK (IF MODELS HAD EVER BEEN MADE) SINCE YOU COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING AT THE STORE....I WOULD GO TO SCI FI & STAR TREK CONVENTIONS HOPING TO FIND A KIT I COULD TAKE HOME. DIDN'T HAPPEN. YOU WOKE UP SOME OLD DREAMS...THANKS. CHALON.
HELLO. THERE'S A MOVIE FROM 1965 THAT MIGHT PROVIDE SOME IDEAS FOR YOU TO USE. IT'S CALLED AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA. THE FILM FEATURES A NUMBER OF FULL-SCALE SUBMERSIBLES BUILT FOR THE MOVIE INCLUDING THE STAR OF THE SHOW..... THE HYDRONAUT. THE HYDRONAUT WAS DEPICTED USING A FULL-SCALE VERSION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS MODELS.
Check out this video . The first of my 'What If' videos. You won't be do Disappointed. (Approx 5 .minutes in). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NX5B1TUUOA0.htmlsi=H-wWBHLM6XjLcvGV
Great video. Is it just me or do most of the "underslung" jets look like they're sagging downwards? Several have the same look, as if they're not pointing in the same direction as the nose. Very interesting, thanks.
Mike Trim was given control to design all the needed non-hero vehicles and buildings from Captain Scarlet to Joe 90, as Derek Meddings concentrated on the Thunderbirds movies after he had designed the main craft for both series. Mike's designs such as the Spectrum Patrol Car , Spectrum Helicopter etc and later the Shado Mobile, became hero models in their own right.
If the African Queen was a kit, someone could sell 1/28 3D printed resin Humph and Katherine along with optional leeches. I would love the Matchbox truck and diorama! And pretty much everything depicted in the video! lol
the matchbox collection looks like repaints of other releases fairly sure i saw a 2000AD vehicle top right and one of them looked like a converted UFO vehicle
The six-wheel trucks from Jie 90 were based on the Alvis "Stalwart" military vehicle still in service with the British Army: Matchbox made a model of it.
I see that the BBC are releasing a blu-ray Blakes 7 series 1. I guess they will do all.four series. As is the custim.for these older shows there will be the original shows and a second version with alternate vfx shots. These have been created, I believe, under the supervision of Mat Irvine. And using some of the original models. e.g The London..
Great video! I love the 6 wheel trucks from Joe 90, a close design to that was when I was a kid Matchbox did a small white all terrain vehicle with a BP Exploration sticker on the side. It also had a yellow plastic clip on cover moulded to look like a tarpaulin. Wish I still had that.
Ah yes. I had that toy, too. It was an Alvis Stalwart. I had a large plastic one - 1/32nd, I think. Army green. From Airfix, but no assembly required... just adding stickers. It was a slight malleable plastic. Anything with 6 wheels or more immediately felt like.a 'Gerry Anderson' vehicle and, as such, got an immediate stamp of approval. The bigger the wheels, the better!
