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.
"The Wages of Fear" was also remade in the mid-70's as "Sorcerer" starring Roy Scheider and I want to say it was directed by William Friedkin. Soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
In 1988 the fossil of a primitive amphibian was discovered in a Scottish quarry. It was eventually given the name "Eucritta melanolimnites", which means "the real creature from the Black Lagoon". Edit: 5:01 Thank you for uncovering the Adventure 2000 toys! When I was about 8 I gave my best friend Jamie the Flight Hunter for his birthday. My mother got it in Woolworth's. And I had the Rocket Striker myself.
Kellys Heroes, Sherman vs Tiger would have been a cool diorama kit. When I was a kid, I always wished Tamiya would have done a series of Star Wars character sets, like they did with their WWII figures. It never happened and ended up doing my own scratch conversions, mostly using their great range of German soldiers, though my Stormtrooper was practically resculpted using cheap plasticine which when painted with enamel formed a hardened skin
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.
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!
'The African Queen' is an absolute classic movie, and the one that I introduced my younger brother into the movies of Humphrey Bogart with. He'd never watched many 'old' movies, and I told him that Humphrey Bogart was the epitome of cool. He watched 'The African Queen' with me, and agreed.
When you first started this series I thought it was literally going to be around. British TV shows such as Thunderbirds and Blake 7. It’s nice to see you’ve really thought outside the box.
Thanks for watching. The videos feature things I would have loved aa a kid. Racing from the movie theatre, or from watching TV to the local Beatties to see if there was a kit of the primary hardware. I am glad you are enjoying the variety of subjects :)
I'd love to have a model kit of the African Queen! Great movie! 😎👍 "Wages Of Fear" sounds much like the more recent movie "Sorcerer" starring Roy Scheider. I had the sound track cassette tape in the late 1970s. 😊
Apparently there were two different boats used to film "African Queen." one for each filming location, and both are still around. One in Florida, one in Uganda. Easy enough to get the measurements for an enterprising mold maker from a major kit maker!
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.
Many many years ago I was planning on making a stop motion film of 'The War.of the Models'.on Super 8- that's how long ago it was. I designed a Martian Tripod machine and a version of the Thunderchild that was a sort of more advanced version of ships.of the day. I redist the term steam-punk, but it leant in that sort of fantasy direction.
Designers of that era just created so many fantastic pieces of machinery, it was a great time to be a kid. Those levels of imagination are not around anymore. Great artwork btw too.
The really amazing part is that they weren't just sketches, but actual models, sometimes with working parts and amazing detail in an age where you didn't have a tenth of the resources we have now. As for today there are still plenty of people who can make amazing things or come up with fantastic designs.
I'd like all of these fantasy kits! Since I can't have any of them, I may as well want them all! Though I'm partial to the "African Queen," (I never got to see many "Joe 90" episodes where I live,) those trucks from "The Wages of Fear" at 3:18 look VERY(!) intriguing. I was kind of hoping that you would have also made a set for the 1977 remake titled "Sorcerer" - again, as a Matchbox offering complete with a diorama setting - showing the titular vehicle crossing the rickety bridge. Talk about an intense scene! As always, thanks for sharing your talents and imagination! Looking forward to #16! 80th Like.
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!
The interesting thing about Joe 90 is that it was set in circa 2012 whereas many of the other GA shows were in the 2060s. That goes some way to explaining why it was more down to earth than shows such as Thunderbirds and Capt. Scarlet. If I recall, the TV Century 21 comic tried very hard to fit the shows into a shared timeline. I can recall a Captain Scarlet story that featured Stingray and Fireball XL5. That really didn't work though, as Thunderbirds and Capt. Scarlet established that Zero X was the first mission to Mars and that exploration beyond lunar orbit was just beginning. Yet Fireball XL5 and the World Space Patrol had interstellar travel. I don't recall if they tried to shoehorn Joe 90 and W.I.N into that shared timeline but I imagine it would have been difficult.
As always mate ("bud" to those of us reading in North America) - truly WONDERFUL artwork and imagination. Thank you for continuing to share your talent ♥ EDIT: Don't forget the AMAZING mini prepaint releases that KONAMI did for pretty much EVERYTHING of interest (vehicle wise) from the Anderson franchise - including Mac's jet car and the U-59 explosives truck.
Those Konami toys are fantastic!. Great detail and the shapes are very good. And as you say, they did all of the Stars as well as some guest vehicle like the Joe 90 Explosives Truck and the Thunderbirds Helijet.
The Wages of Fear is based on a novel and has been remade twice, once in 1977 as 'Sorcerer' directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist) and starring (among others) Roy Schneider, and recently (and terribly) by Netflix.
I laughed when I saw the scale of the African Queen boat: 1/28! Only Revell used that scale, I think, for WWI aircraft. Very decent kits for the time. The Joe 90 explosives trucks have a very strong family resemblance to the SHADO moblies (apart from the tracks of course). I have an old Aurora catalog (1973) showing the kits with the interior images. But I was mostly attracted then to the Invaders ufo and the 2001 Moonbus. It also had the soon to be removed « victim » in the monster section. I really like your videos and all the effort to produce the what-if box tops!
Thanks for watching I am so pleased that you noticed the 1/28th scale. It seemed like the right suze for the model and to have it in scle.with contemporary aircraft also seemed nice. The SHADO Mobiles from UFO were designed by the same person as the Explsives Trucks - Mike Trim. The Aurora 'Orion' was one of the first kits I made. The removable tail.section revealing the 'engine room/reactior' was great. I had not seen '2001'at the time.. I was attracted by the box-art and probably the Aurora name and association with the 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' kits. So I knew this was gonna be good! The same thing with the Invaders. I slathered my Invaders kit with Humbrol #11 silver... it had lumps and drips all over it. I think maybe I believed that the more paint I put on it, the shinier it would look. I was 8 or 9 years old, I think.. I dont recall the 'vctom' or 'Dr Deadly's Daughter' every making it over here to the UK..
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.
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!
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.
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 UA-cam 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.
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
I would love the A14 tank and the armoured hovercraft. I would also love to have a model kit of the Unitron from Captain Scarlet and the Aqua Tank from The Secret Service.
I know. right? Those vehicles.all had such a great look and were conveyed so brilliantly on screen. I love it when the Unitron suddenly starts spurting fire! If you haven't seen it already, you should watch my video on 'caterpillar tracks'? In 'Thunderbirds'.
Photoscope: I know that the Aurora "Skipjack" had this feature that looked down into the nuclear reactor room. (I had the model but, sadly, lost it in a move before I could build it. 😢 )
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.
Yes. Late 70s I think. I have not seen it, but people I know rave about it. It wasn't available for years. But I think it recently got a decent blu-ray release.
It is a Helijet. This model was created for 'Thunderbirds' and appeared in 'Thirty Minutes After Noon' and 'The Imposters'. The miniature would get modified over the years and appeared in 'Captain Scarlet' - I think - and 'Joe 90'. I did a 'What If' kit box of the 'Thunderbirds' version in this video: Gerry Anderson part 2 (aka video #3) ua-cam.com/video/fZmCQ94nx3g/v-deo.htmlsi=4h3MIiXB4AHGlupe (Approx 7 minutes in).
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. .
Something I found interesting. Did you know that there never was a plastic model of the famous Montgolfier Balloon. Even though it was the first successful balloon flight, no model company has ever done a kit of it. Seems like a missed opportunity. Maybe you could give your version of what that kit might be like one day.
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes it us quite surprising that some of the historic aurcraft/spacceaft are not kitted...or kitted with more celebration of their place in history. Alan Shepherd's rocket. The various NASA space probes - Mariner, Viking, Voyager etc. Amelia Earheart's plane. The various Donald and Malcom Campbell land and water speed.record breakers. .
Yeh... IMDB, Wikipedia (which usually has something). There are some modelling sites where people have built wooden models of the boat, and nobody in that forum/discussion knew the history. It's a bit of a mystery.
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
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.
.....hmmm.. Well, I am not quite sure how to respond to this. 'Thunderbird 6' - the Tuger Moth - s included in video #12 ua-cam.com/video/pT5Sr4bf2ZQ/v-deo.htmlsi=jJHiAIQ40VB6opki But I think you are more likely referring to 'Skyship one'. This is included in the first Gerry Anderson video. ua-cam.com/video/UVnVsWH1s5A/v-deo.htmlsi=A2tfd5DjMVsBh1Mc
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). ua-cam.com/video/NX5B1TUUOA0/v-deo.htmlsi=H-wWBHLM6XjLcvGV
I think many people consider this the definitive version. I am pretty sure 'Comet Miniatures' or 'Lunar Models' or one of the limited run companies of that era did a kit. Maybe resin and metal. I think maybe the 'Digging Machine' too. My mind could be playing tricks on me.
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.
Dinky Toys also made a larger model of the Stalwart, but it had those hideously unrealistic 1970s plastic Speedwheels...
"The Wages of Fear" was also remade in the mid-70's as "Sorcerer" starring Roy Scheider and I want to say it was directed by William Friedkin. Soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
@@charlesballard5251 great soundtrack,
In 1988 the fossil of a primitive amphibian was discovered in a Scottish quarry. It was eventually given the name "Eucritta melanolimnites", which means "the real creature from the Black Lagoon".
Edit: 5:01 Thank you for uncovering the Adventure 2000 toys! When I was about 8 I gave my best friend Jamie the Flight Hunter for his birthday. My mother got it in Woolworth's. And I had the Rocket Striker myself.
That story about the fossil is great! I had not heard that before.
'The Wages of Fear' movie trucks, now that's brilliant! And in 1/76 by Matchbox, with the little diorama base, that would be so cool!
Kellys Heroes, Sherman vs Tiger would have been a cool diorama kit. When I was a kid, I always wished Tamiya would have done a series of Star Wars character sets, like they did with their WWII figures. It never happened and ended up doing my own scratch conversions, mostly using their great range of German soldiers, though my Stormtrooper was practically resculpted using cheap plasticine which when painted with enamel formed a hardened skin
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.
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!
Wow. That must have been the kit!
...and if Steve Zodiac cooked you dinner, I bet you'd remember that!
Fantastic artwork, and great ideas for imaginary kits. This series of your videos are brilliant. I hope you do more.
Fantastic artwork Matt, especially the ones from Joe 90 , I love the style of those retro futuristic vehicles
Vivid Imaginations also did a diecast Joe90 Jet Car in the 90s on the strength of the BBC transmissions
'The African Queen' is an absolute classic movie, and the one that I introduced my younger brother into the movies of Humphrey Bogart with. He'd never watched many 'old' movies, and I told him that Humphrey Bogart was the epitome of cool. He watched 'The African Queen' with me, and agreed.
The Wages Of Fear and the work of Mike Trim - both are favourites of mine. Wow!
When you first started this series I thought it was literally going to be around. British TV shows such as Thunderbirds and Blake 7. It’s nice to see you’ve really thought outside the box.
Thanks for watching. The videos feature things I would have loved aa a kid. Racing from the movie theatre, or from watching TV to the local Beatties to see if there was a kit of the primary hardware. I am glad you are enjoying the variety of subjects :)
I'd love to have a model kit of the African Queen! Great movie! 😎👍
"Wages Of Fear" sounds much like the more recent movie "Sorcerer" starring Roy Scheider. I had the sound track cassette tape in the late 1970s. 😊
"Sorcerer" was a remake of "Wages of Fear". (Seen them both.)
There are wooden kits of African Queen out there if you look. Pricey, though.
Apparently there were two different boats used to film "African Queen." one for each filming location, and both are still around. One in Florida, one in Uganda. Easy enough to get the measurements for an enterprising mold maker from a major kit maker!
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.
I bet if you polled 100 people about Joe 90 about 90% (ha ha).would.cite this episode. A real cracker!
I am alone but I spontaneously burst into applause when "The Eve of the War" began to play, and the art of the Martian Fighting Machine appeared!
I don't think you are alone. As I was editing this I felt like.i just HAD to include those iconic three notes. Magical
Another great one Matthew
Thanks Max
Oh these are great, love your artwork.
Fantastic video yet again, can't get enough of this with the artwork, nostalgia, well done Matt
Thank You 😊
A few years back I found Joe 90 on UA-cam and the first episode is basically 'Firefox'!
I feel the same way :)
Fantastic work as always! I'd love to see your take on mankind's last hope, the Thunderchild!
Many many years ago I was planning on making a stop motion film of 'The War.of the Models'.on Super 8- that's how long ago it was. I designed a Martian Tripod machine and a version of the Thunderchild that was a sort of more advanced version of ships.of the day.
I redist the term steam-punk, but it leant in that sort of fantasy direction.
Mike Trim indeed. I’ll be looking for that book.
Designers of that era just created so many fantastic pieces of machinery, it was a great time to be a kid. Those levels of imagination are not around anymore. Great artwork btw too.
Yeh. There's so much cool stuff from that studio. Derek Meddings, Reg Hill, Mike Trim - simply fantastic.
The really amazing part is that they weren't just sketches, but actual models, sometimes with working parts and amazing detail in an age where you didn't have a tenth of the resources we have now. As for today there are still plenty of people who can make amazing things or come up with fantastic designs.
More great stuff Matt!
All wonderfull choices!
I'd like all of these fantasy kits! Since I can't have any of them, I may as well want them all!
Though I'm partial to the "African Queen," (I never got to see many "Joe 90" episodes where I live,) those trucks from "The Wages of Fear" at 3:18 look VERY(!) intriguing. I was kind of hoping that you would have also made a set for the 1977 remake titled "Sorcerer" - again, as a Matchbox offering complete with a diorama setting - showing the titular vehicle crossing the rickety bridge. Talk about an intense scene!
As always, thanks for sharing your talents and imagination! Looking forward to #16!
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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!
@@Matteline Ah, nostalgia. If only we could go back in time!
Great work yet again. Wages of fear is a great old movie and I grew up loving Joe 90 - Thanks!
The interesting thing about Joe 90 is that it was set in circa 2012 whereas many of the other GA shows were in the 2060s. That goes some way to explaining why it was more down to earth than shows such as Thunderbirds and Capt. Scarlet.
If I recall, the TV Century 21 comic tried very hard to fit the shows into a shared timeline. I can recall a Captain Scarlet story that featured Stingray and Fireball XL5. That really didn't work though, as Thunderbirds and Capt. Scarlet established that Zero X was the first mission to Mars and that exploration beyond lunar orbit was just beginning. Yet Fireball XL5 and the World Space Patrol had interstellar travel.
I don't recall if they tried to shoehorn Joe 90 and W.I.N into that shared timeline but I imagine it would have been difficult.
I've seen biographies of the Tracy Brothers stating that Gordon had been in the W.A.S.P. and Alan previously serving on board an XL spaceship.
As always mate ("bud" to those of us reading in North America) - truly WONDERFUL artwork and imagination. Thank you for continuing to share your talent ♥
EDIT: Don't forget the AMAZING mini prepaint releases that KONAMI did for pretty much EVERYTHING of interest (vehicle wise) from the Anderson franchise - including Mac's jet car and the U-59 explosives truck.
Those Konami toys are fantastic!. Great detail and the shapes are very good. And as you say, they did all of the
Stars as well as some guest vehicle like the Joe 90 Explosives Truck and the Thunderbirds Helijet.
Well, at least there already was a picture of the Grey & Houseman truck in this one. 😁
Hey Mike, the passenger jet from Joe 90 looks similar to the spj from captain scarlet. Keep up the superb work
I know what you mean. The same designer did both. I love how sleek the 'Passenger Jet' is. The Spectrum Passenger Jet is a more utilitarian.
Just found BBC series Star Cops on UA-cam. Some really good looking space ships and a moon mobil. Great to see some of these considered.
...was that the show from the 1980s with a character named Nathan Spang?
Yes it is. For the BBC the scifi effects are not bad. Think most the budget went on hiring Justin Haywood for the theme song!
The Wages of Fear is based on a novel and has been remade twice, once in 1977 as 'Sorcerer' directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist) and starring (among others) Roy Schneider, and recently (and terribly) by Netflix.
Thank you for all your fine work. I love this channel.
Thank You! I am so glad you are enjoying the videos.
I laughed when I saw the scale of the African Queen boat: 1/28!
Only Revell used that scale, I think, for WWI aircraft. Very decent kits for the time.
The Joe 90 explosives trucks have a very strong family resemblance to the SHADO moblies (apart from the tracks of course).
I have an old Aurora catalog (1973) showing the kits with the interior images. But I was mostly attracted then to the Invaders ufo and the 2001 Moonbus. It also had the soon to be removed « victim » in the monster section.
I really like your videos and all the effort to produce the what-if box tops!
Thanks for watching
I am so pleased that you noticed the 1/28th scale. It seemed like the right suze for the model and to have it in scle.with contemporary aircraft also seemed nice.
The SHADO Mobiles from UFO were designed by the same person as the Explsives Trucks - Mike Trim.
The Aurora 'Orion' was one of the first kits I made. The removable tail.section revealing the 'engine room/reactior' was great. I had not seen '2001'at the time.. I was attracted by the box-art and probably the Aurora name and association with the 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' kits. So I knew this was gonna be good! The same thing with the Invaders. I slathered my Invaders kit with Humbrol #11 silver... it had lumps and drips all over it. I think maybe I believed that the more paint I put on it, the shinier it would look. I was 8 or 9 years old, I think..
I dont recall the 'vctom' or 'Dr Deadly's Daughter' every making it over here to the UK..
The Martian War Machine, from the Mike Trim design, was produced as a Resin and White Metal kit, CM005, by Comet Miniatures, back in the 1980s
Now I really would love to make a "Wages of Fear" diorama. Hmmm...
If you're going to box a Martian Fighting Machine you're gonna have to box a Thunderchild.
Another FAB video,thanks.
Another great video. I would definitely buy the 'Wages of Fearn set! One of my favourite movies!
“Wages of Fear” is a terrific film..
the dinky sans car was produced in light blue also.
Wow 😮 I love your work :) these kits would be amazing :)
Thank You :)
Fantastic art and concepts once again and production history info. Thank you for your show, it is well appreciated.
Thank You
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.
The Actual F- 116 model as well as the jet pack model from CS showed up in an episode of Dr. Who. Great to see for scale.
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!
I have heard of the Dr Who appearance I have not seen it. Do you know if it is the same paint job / colour as seen here?
I love this stuff. Thank you.👍👍👍👍
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.
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 UA-cam 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.
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
Back in the 60s and 70s kits used to come with figures. Mr Allcott and Rose and the torped would be fab.
I would love the A14 tank and the armoured hovercraft. I would also love to have a model kit of the Unitron from Captain Scarlet and the Aqua Tank from The Secret Service.
I know. right? Those vehicles.all had such a great look and were conveyed so brilliantly on screen. I love it when the Unitron suddenly starts spurting fire!
If you haven't seen it already, you should watch my video on 'caterpillar tracks'? In 'Thunderbirds'.
Great fun again, thank you. I also will be looking for the Mike Trim book. If anyone finds it can they post a link in the comments?
I''ve seen several listings for it on ebay.
@@Matteline Thank you, my daughter has found and ordered a copy for me.
Great vid! Konami do fantastic smaller versions of all the Anderson vehicles including the explosives truck!
Yes. The Konami stuff is great. Very expensive to get them all....I am missing a few from my 'Anderson fleet'.
Photoscope: I know that the Aurora "Skipjack" had this feature that looked down into the nuclear reactor room. (I had the model but, sadly, lost it in a move before I could build it. 😢 )
Yes My brother had the Skipjack. I think the Nautilus had the same picture.
Wages of Fear and the Joe 90 episode would go well with the truck from the James Woods film Sorcerer which has a similar plot. 😊
Sam's car might not be a James Bond style car, but the spoiler and the extra aggressive GTO front end are muscle car excellence.
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.
There is a movie in the 80's called the sorcerer which involved a truck movie nitro in the same way,i think it must be a remake
Yes. Late 70s I think. I have not seen it, but people I know rave about it. It wasn't available for years. But I think it recently got a decent blu-ray release.
Its a worthy remake of Wages Of Fear.
Thank you for the book reference at the end.
BTW, what was the strange flying Naval vessel on the box of that Joe 90 model?
It is a Helijet. This model was created for 'Thunderbirds' and appeared in 'Thirty Minutes After Noon' and 'The Imposters'. The miniature would get modified over the years and appeared in 'Captain Scarlet' - I think - and 'Joe 90'.
I did a 'What If' kit box of the 'Thunderbirds' version in this video: Gerry Anderson part 2 (aka video #3)
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(Approx 7 minutes in).
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..
@@Matteline perhaps it was your video that did it!
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.
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I have The Future Is FAB. Time for a reprint methinks.
Airfix?? 🙏
Something I found interesting. Did you know that there never was a plastic model of the famous Montgolfier Balloon. Even though it was the first successful balloon flight, no model company has ever done a kit of it. Seems like a missed opportunity. Maybe you could give your version of what that kit might be like one day.
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes it us quite surprising that some of the historic aurcraft/spacceaft are not kitted...or kitted with more celebration of their place in history. Alan Shepherd's rocket. The various NASA space probes - Mariner, Viking, Voyager etc. Amelia Earheart's plane. The various Donald and Malcom Campbell land and water speed.record breakers.
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IMDb looks to have no info about the boat in either Trivia or FAQ.
Yeh... IMDB, Wikipedia (which usually has something). There are some modelling sites where people have built wooden models of the boat, and nobody in that forum/discussion knew the history. It's a bit of a mystery.
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
That's interesting. I don't know much about the backstory of the Adventure 2000 series.
@@Matteline not one i had seen either
Who in their right mind gies swimming in the Amazon? Haven't they heard of piranha fish?
....maybe not in the 1950s?
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.
But what about thunderbirds 6
.....hmmm.. Well, I am not quite sure how to respond to this.
'Thunderbird 6' - the Tuger Moth - s included in video #12 ua-cam.com/video/pT5Sr4bf2ZQ/v-deo.htmlsi=jJHiAIQ40VB6opki
But I think you are more likely referring to 'Skyship one'. This is included in the first Gerry Anderson video.
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I need to get a 3d printer
Me too
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.
Thanks for watching
Comments like this make it all worthwhile. I'm glad you are enjoying the videos.
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).
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WIN was what the CIA became: SPECTRUM was a later version of the US Secret Service.
I'd definitely buy that WOTW fighting machine!
I think many people consider this the definitive version. I am pretty sure 'Comet Miniatures' or 'Lunar Models' or one of the limited run companies of that era did a kit. Maybe resin and metal. I think maybe the 'Digging Machine' too. My mind could be playing tricks on me.
Another dereliction of duty by Airfix......