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Here post information and references to 'Angel Interceptor' models, etc.
A good place to ask "historical" questions.
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To my mind, this site offers the best info for Spectrum and here's the Angel pages;

http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/an ... eptor.html;

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Has anyone found any decent screen grabs of the interceptor? Searching online results in mainly other models and CGI or very small images.
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Intakes...

On my Imai example, I added two wheels to represent fan blades, for the two engines. I then added the two intake vanes.

The Airfix kit provides a piece of what looks like mesh, with two lines to represent the edges of the vanes.

I was correct.

This cutaway;
http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/an ... print.html;

...shows something alongside the front of the engines. I'm guessing that this is the vane for that side of the aircraft.

I think Titan has the most-right idea to date.

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I think the cutaway contains some supposition as looking at some clips 'suggests' Airfix may be right about the mesh but the vanes need to be deeper.
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Here are some useful stills I've pulled off YouTube.

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...And at this point, the evidence screams at us that the kit is not 1/72!
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The dimensions of the real Angel are as follows;

Length: 60 feet*
Wingspan: 35 feet*

With the model coming in at a length of 18cm and a 9.8cm wingspan, the model works out at a scale of 1/102 by length, 1/109 by wingspan.

*From "Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation Cross-Sections", Graham Bleathman, Carlton Books Limited, 2000,
ISBN 1842224115.

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