This beautiful specimen was recently sold on Ebay. I do love its sleek design and angular lines. If I dodn't know any better I'd say ot was one of the PROBE FORCE fleet of spacecraft in PROJECT SWORD. A real stunner. Century 21 Toys did a great job of bringing this Captain Scarlet jet to the toy shelf. Lovely box art too - the rainbow side-panel is a really attractive feature. Wonder who the box artist was? I've just thought, it has a passing resemblence to the silver jet (top of pic below) that Brains comes up with as a possible Thunderbird 6 in the film of the same name! Who knows?!
This was the informative item description: "GERRY ANDERSONS CAPTAIN SCARLET, VINTAGE CENTURY 21 TOYS ANGEL AIRCRAFT! RELEASED IN 1967 TO COINCIDE WITH THE ORIGINAL T.V SERIES, CENTURY 21 PRODUCED SOME TRULY BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC TOYS, THIS BEING ONE OF THEM, THIS ITEM IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION AND BOXED, IT COMES COMPLETE WITH ANGEL PILOT (REMOVABLE) & ONE MISSILE, IN ITS ORIGINAL PACKING, IT IS HOWEVER MISSING ITS FRICTION DRIVE UNIT (THIS WAS ALSO REMOVABLE & CLIPPED UNDERNEATH) + 2 SMALL RED TRIMS ON BOTH SIDES ARE MISSING, APART FROM THAT MODEL IS COMPLETE, THE MISSILE FIRING MECHANISM WORKS PERFECTLY AND ALL THE SPECTRUM MARKINGS ARE COMPLETELY INTACT! ANGEL PILOT IS A LITTLE LOOSE FITTING BUT EASILY RECTIFIED AND THE BOX IS VERY GOOD FOR ITS AGE (ORIGINAL PRICE TAG IS STILL ON BOX"
This was the informative item description: "GERRY ANDERSONS CAPTAIN SCARLET, VINTAGE CENTURY 21 TOYS ANGEL AIRCRAFT! RELEASED IN 1967 TO COINCIDE WITH THE ORIGINAL T.V SERIES, CENTURY 21 PRODUCED SOME TRULY BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC TOYS, THIS BEING ONE OF THEM, THIS ITEM IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION AND BOXED, IT COMES COMPLETE WITH ANGEL PILOT (REMOVABLE) & ONE MISSILE, IN ITS ORIGINAL PACKING, IT IS HOWEVER MISSING ITS FRICTION DRIVE UNIT (THIS WAS ALSO REMOVABLE & CLIPPED UNDERNEATH) + 2 SMALL RED TRIMS ON BOTH SIDES ARE MISSING, APART FROM THAT MODEL IS COMPLETE, THE MISSILE FIRING MECHANISM WORKS PERFECTLY AND ALL THE SPECTRUM MARKINGS ARE COMPLETELY INTACT! ANGEL PILOT IS A LITTLE LOOSE FITTING BUT EASILY RECTIFIED AND THE BOX IS VERY GOOD FOR ITS AGE (ORIGINAL PRICE TAG IS STILL ON BOX"
Angel Aircraft pictures courtesy of Ebay UK.
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