Figured some of the older members on this forum might like to see this...

Possibly one of the rarest figure kits ever produced, made by Stuart Evans of Sevans Models back in the eighties. Sevans produced a number of kits primarily of Dr Who and Captain Scarlet subjects which were amazing kits for their time, being true multi media efforts generally made of vinyl or vacform plastic with photo etch and white metal accessories.

The Colonel White figure was never commercially released and supposedly only 90 were ever made and distributed to close friends and associates in plain boxes with no artwork. I picked this one up off Ebay several years ago in a very sorry state after someone had obviously had at it with some thick Humbrol enamels.

I finally got around to stripping it and was frankly blown away by the detail of the head sculpting once I got rid of the crusted on paint. I did make some adjustments to the kit; turned some acrylic rod for the shoulder epaulettes to be more in scale; printed the spectrum logos for the sleeves up as decals; used fine black leather produced for detailing large scale car models for the gunbelt and holster: added belt loops out of lead sheet and replaced the zipper pull rings with fine wire.

Figure was painted entirely in acrylics using a combination of airbrush and brush. The figure is about 1/6th scale which I reckon is roughly half the size of the original puppets used in the show. Painting the head and eyes was quite a challenge as you are trying to replicate the look of what is, after all, a puppet replica of a real person. I read somewhere they used reduced photographs of real human eyes in the original puppet's eyeballs.

Finally mounted him on a custom "Spectrum" base using a Tamiya Clear Acrylic base with a logo which I pulled off the internet, resized, printed and glued onto the bottom.

I still have the other figures in this line; Scarlet, Black, Blue and Green but these are all unstarted kits so should be easier builds.

Excellent work! Looks just like the original puppet.
Captain Scarlet was always my favourite of the Gerry Anderson series, think I had a couple of the annuals in the 1970s as well.

Very cool! I didn't know that anyone kitted any Captain Scarlet characters, besides Imai back in the day (I have a couple of those). That's an outstanding piece you have, nicely finished!

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Prost!
Brad

Excellent work!

Thanks Brad. Sevans stuff does show up on Ebay from time to time but they are not cheap. Their old Dalek kits were highly detailed but by all accounts well nigh on impossible to build. I looked at the old Imai Captain Scarlet figures and the Sevans ones are in a completely different league in my humble opinion, although I do have the Imai SPV with extensive corrections which I did to it many years ago.

Sevans did some fantastic kits of UK Sci Fi subjects. Here's their Kryten from Red Dwarf. This was originally released in Vinyl but I managed to find one of the few versions they issued in full resin. The instructions for Kryten are hilarious. I'll post them up if I can dig them out.

Done as instructed Nap! (hopefully correctly as it was my first time - but not my last, I promise)

As promised, the instructions for Kryten, They are well worth a read for the humour but also include some good tips - they assume you are building a vinyl kit.

Oh, absolutely! Tooled in front-and-back pieces like Revell's old figures with their 1/24 cars or the 1/28 aircraft, injection-molded in styrene, with all the softness of detail that that entails. Still, for their time, they were pretty cool. I like that the kits included small models of the vehicle relevant to the character. The coolest one was the Angel Interceptor. I've got that one, Captain Scarlet, Colonel White, and Captain Magenta. Looking at them now, I have to guess their scale at around 1/25, perhaps.

I'm going to have to break these out and finish them...

Prost!
Brad

What a brilliant project. Different and executed with such skill and ingenuity! Lovely that!

I bagged a Sevans Davros a few years ago for a very reasonable 120 quid! Its a lovely kit that I will eventually finish

This thread is bringing back a lot of memories of Comet Miniatures in Lavender Hill, Battersea.........

Hi Chris, I spent many a happy hour in that shop scouring for rare kits. I still have some of the kits Tony and Comet produced like their Robby the Robot and one of their Dalek kits (a bit smaller than the Sevans ones but far easier to build). Although the shop is gone Tony is still trading online as far as I know under "Timeless Hobbies" - I bought kits of the Crablogger and Sidewinder from Thunderbirds from him a couple of years ago.