My rough guess is that all pictured vehicles are proto's solely made for advertising and promotion purposes. Making a few protos and then see how much orders come in is a safer way of producing than making a lot and then see if it sells or not. Why protos? Take a close look at the wheels for both vehicles: no profile whatsoever on tyres. The Jeep is missing a lot of other details that were present in the final design. Jeep appears to be less wide than final version.
But I agree: they vehicles look dodgy! IMHO: all 1982 items are crap apart from the figures.
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Re prototypes
Looking at the figures though, I wonder if that camo is hand painted as it seems far more complex than the camo on the production ones.
The Mountain & Arctic especially looks a lot better, but so does the Marine.
The AF5 looks far more complete than the other vehicles, but even that has a number of variations (red button shape, lack of clips to hold it together, the tyres as mentioned above and of course that lovely flotation collar!)
Interesting to see
The Mountain & Arctic especially looks a lot better, but so does the Marine.
The AF5 looks far more complete than the other vehicles, but even that has a number of variations (red button shape, lack of clips to hold it together, the tyres as mentioned above and of course that lovely flotation collar!)
Interesting to see
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Re: Re prototypes
Aye, noticed that one as well. My guess is, that the whole catalogue is pre-production stuff to inform re-sellers. As you mentioned, this is very interesting to see. Where did you get that book!steve wrote:Looking at the figures though, I wonder if that camo is hand painted as it seems far more complex than the camo on the production ones.
