Anyway, when I was in Japan last year I was looking for the reissued "Thunderbirds" kits by Aoshima all I managed to get were FAB1 and the MOLE. I saw a Fireflash, but when I went back to get it... gone u_u
However I have at last managed to get their 1/144 scale Thunderbird 1, which is on its way from Japan to me even as I write.
Although Aoshima are using old Imai artwork, the kit is newly tooled and as accurate as any modeller could hope for. It's around the same size as the Comet one I have, but less work!
On the new kit front Aoshima are giving us a newly tooled Thunderbird 3 to 1/350 scale, and it looks very nice.. this is the kit from Aoshima's site:
As you can see it's a beautiful model which is around the same size as my JR21 version - which I will replace with this piece of plastic goodness.
Finally it was announced a few months ago that ITV in the UK have commissioned a brand new "Thunderbirds" TV series to air on their CITV channel. It will be a combination of CGI characters and real sets - how this will work is anyone's guess... but it can't be worse than the recent feature film version.
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