Shado mobile Imai kit

[KevinD]

I've built the Imai kit of the Shado mobile from UFO. If you remove the toy bits from it, it is a decent enough model. It's the size of the Dinky toy.

 

[userd1402]

Great build. My favourite vehicle from that show. Great pictures too.

 

[KevinD]

Thank you. Yep, it's a great design is the Shado mobile!

 

[joberg]

Very well done Kevin You said that you removed the toy bits from it...which toy bits?

 

[KevinD]

Thanks. The kit has 4 large plastic wheels so that you can trundle it along. They needed to go and the gaps for them needed plugging. It was meant to fire missiles out of its headlights, so again, the bits needed removing and the gaps filled in. The tracks are fake to hide the toy wheels, so I needed to drill and file out all the plastic between the fake wheels, whilst not damaging the tracks!

 

[Antsnest]

Lovely job!

 

[KevinD]

Thank you, much appreciated.

 

[JimmyB]

That's a fantastic recreation which takes me back to my youth. I even managed to get the exclusive UFO poster after collecting all of the bubblegum cards which my teeth paid for. Great job.

 

[KevinD]

Thanks very much. I collected UFO bubblegum cards too.

 

[joberg]

That's a fantastic recreation which takes me back to my youth. I even managed to get the exclusive UFO poster after collecting all of the bubblegum cards which my teeth paid for. Great job.

Same here and I have the UFO book with all of the images that came with gums also (Stickers).

 

[JimmyB]

Same here and I have the UFO book with all of the images that came with gums also (Stickers).

You're just showing off now

 

[Clerval]

If I had the means, I would be moving on after some current Trek and Wars work to do a full line-up of C21 and Mike Trim vehicles, etc. Some of them are simply brilliant in design and execution The scale is damn near *always* blown in the photography and limits and such (er the nostalgia! rather) but the heart of them is so nice.

 

[KevinD]

Yep, I love the designs and am slowly making them!

 

[KevinD]

Here are some of my scratchbuilds over the years.

 

[joberg]

Quite the cool collection Kevin

 

[KevinD]

Thanks. It gets added to sometimes.

 

[yuumi2891103]

Wonderful collection!

Once I made this vehicle kit of Imai.
Looks like it's not obtainable right now.

 

[KevinD]

Thank you. I've never seen the Imai kit. I have got a set of the wheels in the hope that I'll get around to a scratchbuild one day.

 

[Jaitea]

Again I’m blown away by your builds KevinD, the level of authenticity is incredible

Did you know that Round2 is releasing some UFO kits soon?

J

 

[KevinD]

Thank you, that's most kind. Ooh, I did not know that about UFO kits, that's quite exciting!