1:144 SCALE CONVAIR NUCLEAR EXPLORATORY VEHICLE FROM MOEBIUS
IF YOU KNOW YOUR 1950s spacecraft kits, this new Moebius model of the NEV (Nuclear Exploratory Vehicle) might look familiar as a kit that Strombecker produced - except that it isn’t. Mat Irvine: Although the NEV is based on the same design the space scientist Krafft Ehricke devised when he worked for Convair, it is in fact a totally new kit. The handsome box ( header pic ) depicts the NEV passing over a cratered moonscape. Author Adam Johnson used some Ehricke images in his book 2001: The Lost Sciences, The Scientists, Influences and Designs and he developed this particular concept into the new Moebius NEV kit. Let's hope there are more factual-futuristic designs to come in what looks like a growing 'Lost Science' kit series from Moebius. The NEV is very simple to build, the craft itself consisting of five fuel tanks, a propulsion module and a long boom stretching forward to connect to a habitation crew module. The tanks are identical mouldings to make up five cylinde...