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Old 09-30-2010, 08:57 PM
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Or, if you had the money to spend and could still find one...

ENA Models Fireball XL5 1:72 scale, 3 feet long, hollow cast GRP cockpit with clear vac-formed canopy. Interior cockpit detail with white metal Steve Zodiac and clear cast Robert the Robot figures. Vac-formed body with GRP wings and fins. Decals. Limited edition of 100. Price £150.00 plus postage in May 1997.
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I remember this show from when I was a kid, although I was pretty young. I also recall my dad buying me a plastic model of it, which I thought was very cool. It's one of the earliest models that I can remember from my youth.

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Greg - Check out You Tube; I think there's plenty of Fireball XL-5 episodes there (I've watched a few of them).....
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While we are on this tack - has anyone seen anything resembling a drawing of Anastasia from Dan Dare? I have a small white metal model, but if there is anything a little larger I think I cna go from there. The thought first crossed my mind when building a Quest M2Q2 and the elliptical formers.

I have a copy of the Dan Dare 1950s Annual that was published about 10 years ago or so, and it has several pages from the magazine that show the ship. Look for some images attached...
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I found a Fireball XL-5 plan in Model Rockteer issue Aug 1983.
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I remember, barely, watching Fireball XL-5 as a be-diapered toddler. Great theme song! I loved the show, but never got any of the toys.

One of the members of LUNAR had a bunch of elaborate Dan Dare spaceship models. I recall that the cones were made of some kind of composition material. Paper mache sort of stuff.
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