Imai Mini X-Car

If you remember a few posts back I got the unusual Excavator kit by Imai based on Ron Turner's design in a comic strip in the 1966 "Thunderbirds" Annual. That kit was originally motorised but had been retooled as a static model.

This latest kit is a smaller model. Like its larger brother it features a bust of a driver in the cockpit and claw arms. The maw, like the larger kit has been retooled to represent a rubber curtain similar to what you find at airport security scanners. 

Rather than rubber tracks this one has rolling wheels... I can add tracks from an old 1/76 or 1/72 tank. 

Apologies for the photos but I thought I would use my iPhone for a change. 

As you can see from the instructions it's a pretty simple model, but it does look good. 

I wish we could have more off-screen models from various Thunderbirds comics and annuals.