G is for Grail Found!

I managed to find one of my non-toy soldier 'grails' at the November Sandown Park show, we had the Captain Scarlet MSV (Maximum Security Vehicle), with it's repurposed Hornby O-gauge packing crate, filled with gold bars, and this beast, but we never had the little red Security Vehicle, although several of our friends did have it, but this was the one I always missed, after they'd gone to the great church-fate monster!

 

And this one was both cheap, and the early version we had, so perfect. The Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle (SPV), a rather mad, windowless, half-tracked space-tank! It seems to have two jet-turbine engines making it pretty vulnerable to frontal fire, and the shtick was that Captain Scarlet controlled it from a desk, deep in the heart of the vehicle, but, he's approximately 1:76th, so always had loads of infantry support, courtesy of Airfix, for a vehicle the size of a house!

 

It was only cheap because it's missing its missile, but I have several in various colours in the bits boxes. I saw three rather well-renovated Shadow 2's last weekend, from the other Gerry Anderson staple, UFO, and nearly bought one for the missile, just so I could shoot this with it, but they had the evilBay repro' versions, and they just aren't right! So we'll return to this one day, Mike Burrows goes through the various versions here. Looking at his, mine could do with a clean!