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This 1/48th scale TB1 was built for use in the latest THUNDERBIRDS comics. It stands 14 1/4 inches high. It is made of Jelutong wood, with Perspex (Plexiglass) wings and tailplanes and aluminium radiator vanes and jet nozzles. Its legs are made from soldered brass.
A set-up for the new comic showing TB1 landing at an oil refinery.
A cover from the 1992 comic issue 12 depicting a scene from the TV episode "The Uninvited" where Thunderbird 1 has been shot down in the desert by "Zombite" fighters
This note book, free with issue 2 of the latest Thunderbirds comic featured the model seen in photo 1.
The cover of a special issue 13 of "TV ZONE" magazine re-used a photo I originally did of TB1 flying over the Arctic icecap. For this photo I used a model of TB1 I originally made in 1969! It had however been refurbished by this time!
TB1 takes off in its launch silo for this front cover shot of the 1992 comic. Getting this shot involved building a large section of the silo which in itself involved tracking down many of the plastic kits used to decorate the original set.
Setting up a shot of TB1 landing on the gas rig "Seascape" from the TV episode "Atlantic Inferno". Once again this required building a large section of "Seascape" to exactly match the original model.
One of the shots of TB1 on Seascape finally used in the comic.
The previous photo as it appeared on the comic cover..