Took about 4 hours the lot..(some of the paintjobs on the animals being proof of that)
The set came out at the time of the 1966-1968 Tarzan series.
All the poses in the set
The Humans
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The female??? In the series there were a lot of female characters but Jane Porter was left out of the series ..so who is she supposed to represent ? Airfix´s idea to add a Jane character or is she supposed to be a generic representative of the many women who acted in the 1966 -1968 series like Julie Harris or Ethel Merman ?
Or, is she meant to represent Ruana played by Nichelle Nichols (yep, Lieutenant Uhura) They way she´s dressed isn´t too far off how she looked in the Show (HERE)
The Great White hunter. Perhaps it´s Jason Flood played by Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe
From the waist down it appears as if he isn´t wearing anything at all or at best a pair of tights so his shorts, socks and shoes are painted "as if"
The Tarzan bod is tall compared to the other bods (as noted over at PSR) Seeing as the bod is based on Ron Ely who is 6' 4", his stature seems vagely appropiate,,,and anyway, Tarzan IS BIG so no normal puny human here thankyou.
I´ve found out that Ron Ely didn´t really have black hair but hey, I watched the series on a B/W TV and as part of the Mission to paint all the sets is to try and copy (as far as possible) the boxart, he ended up with black hair.
Jai. I found his character annoyingly sickly sweet . Played in the series by Manuel Padilla, Jr.
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The Africans could considered to be one of the many American Africans who acted in the series like Rao played by Rockne Booth Tarkington, Kesho played by Yaphet Kotto, Sorda played by Clarence Williams III and M'Kone, played by Brock Peters (to Name but a few)
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After a bit of reflection whilst writing this post, I decided to paint up a female as Ruana, though my painting nor the sculpt come anywhere near the stunning Looks of Nichelle Nichols
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The animals
TBH, they could have ditched most of the animals in favour of a few more humans.
The Nellie, Panther, one of the lions and the Zebra turn up in one or other of the 2 Airfix Zoo sets which could have been used to provide Tarzan´s world with a Menagerie.
Mind you, did Tarzan ever have anything to do with Llamas or penguins? Still, it would have been fun as a nipper Pairing him up in a boxing match against one of the Kangaroos.
Actually, although it´s a Long time ago but thinking about it, I probably did :-D
(Zoo Animals No. 1 & Zoo Animals No. 2)
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| The croc I painted up in a bit of a PeterPan/Tarzan Comic book look. |
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| The most mule like Zebra ever. A new species!! A Mubra? A Zeble? |
The native playing the drum? After he´d had a head swop, he found a home as a khandibarian
I might give the native in the canoe a head swop and use him elsewhere, the others could become Khandibarians.
The croc will be put aside for possible use in Bodstonia
I quite like the female pose , It´s got some conversion possibility.
Jason could end up alongside his mates in a desert/Jungle type setting, that´s if I had any similar desert/Jungle type bods to be his mates.
Tarzan ? I actually have an idea for him.
The Teeny weeny Jai ? A Hobbit on bathday?
The rest? Back in the bag I reckon
*33 with this lot..27 to go!! That should, at this rate, take Another 6 years .............
.............and on a different note....A slow worm !
