T is for Toy Fair 2019 Reports - Revell - Viking Long Ship

Revell also had glow-in-the-dark versions of two older kits, the Viking long ship and the Pirates of the Carribean licensed Black Pearl. Although scaled to 1:50, you can pile smaller-scaled figures in it and it still looks OK!

The 'night color' seems to be a blackish-grey or graphite wash, which goes on thin allowing the fluorescent plastic to shine through, but I'm not sure and didn't ask, it may be more of a dry-brushing thing?

As it happened I'd bought the finished vessel for a pound in a charity shop in Basingrad back in October of last year, and although the shop gave me a box to carry it home on the train, it suffered damage (and was already missing a few oars!) before I could shoot it.

It gives an idea of what the ship can look like, and has now gone to recycling, but only after I stripped all the useful spares off it. At the end of the day, unless you are lucky enough to have a large or spacious property, it's very hard to hang on to stuff like this, which is probably why the previous owner gave it to charity in the first place!