COLD WAR WARRIOR RETURNS - MACE MISSILE FROM RENWAL
SMN report: Mat Irvine spotted the next Revell reissue of a classic Renwal military kit when he was at the iHobby Expo recently. It will be the futuristic Teracruzer and Mace missile set, and as you will read in Mat’s article later today, there’s been a sea-change at Revell where packaging is concerned. Original boxes revisited Instead of the photo-style ‘History Makers’ packaging previously used, the Mace and other kits are now being treated to a revamp of the original Renwal boxes - and that’s excellent news, for they really were designs of their time, and deserve to be seen again. Mace - an early form of cruise missile Inside the brightly coloured box of the 1:32 scale Teracruzer and Mace kit, you get 278 components, including a combat crew of five figures, three of whom are shown below. Cold War warrior The Mace was a nuclear-tipped winged missile, launched straight off its transporter-launcher with the aid of a rocket booster, which dropped away after a short but powerful bur...