Nitto - "Delta-3" plastic model kit
This was one of the very first Japanese science fiction kits that I ever owned. (A few Imai Thunderbird kits preceded it by several months.) I found it at the legendary, five story Polk’s toy and hobby store in Manhattan on July 20, 1968. Nat Polk was always getting samples of model kits and toys; the odds and ends that didn’t get ordered in quantity usually wound up on the store shelves at pretty low prices. The Delta-3 kit was such a “one of” and cost me $1.00.
I found the vehicle design and box art (by Shusei Nagaoka) to be outstanding. Unfortunately, the parts in the kit bore just a superficial resemblance to the illustration and the model never got built.
Nitto - "Delta-3" plastic model kit
This was one of the very first Japanese science fiction kits that I ever owned. (A few Imai Thunderbird kits preceded it by several months.) I found it at the legendary, five story Polk’s toy and hobby store in Manhattan on July 20, 1968. Nat Polk was always getting samples of model kits and toys; the odds and ends that didn’t get ordered in quantity usually wound up on the store shelves at pretty low prices. The Delta-3 kit was such a “one of” and cost me $1.00.
I found the vehicle design and box art (by Shusei Nagaoka) to be outstanding. Unfortunately, the parts in the kit bore just a superficial resemblance to the illustration and the model never got built.