Ships Thunderbird 2 Skin - Panther Clipper

[TraceyIsland]

So look, I can't be the only one. Sure we've had the Black Panther and Pink Panther memes and I get it. Yet, maybe it's just me, but growing up in 90s Britain I lived and breathed Thunderbirds as a very young kid! My brother was always a Thunderbird 1 fanboy, whilst I was absolutely enamored with Thunderbird 2. I mean come on, T1 is like the showy deva singer (entirely replaceable) whilst T2 was like the drummer of the group (everything sounds terrible without it!). As kids we had the Tracey Island toy with all the little models where all the palm trees tipped back 45 degrees to let T2 launch and you could open the swimming pool to launch T1. On Thunderbird 2 itself you could make it drop the pods and the T4 would roll out, or the little drill for those few times you (rarely) didn't need an underwater rescue mission. The legs came down, but you had to make your own sound FX of course. I was so obsessed that for my 6th birthday my mum (somehow, god bless her) painstakingly made my cake into a 3D model of it. And she did the same the next year! I even had Virgil Tracey's uniform (the thunderbird 2 operator for those of you not in the know) which one day in the town street my hat blew off and my mum had to lie flat on the floor and fish it out the river haha

All of this is to say that I can't believe how much the Panther Clipper (from certain angles) looks very, very similar to Thunderbird 2! Especially with that big spoiler across the back

Alas the green skins for the ship are a little lacking and don't quite do the Thunderbird 2 dream justice

Would it be too much to ask that we might get a more bottle green skin? That my 6 year old self can finally live the dream of flying the Thunderbird 2

 

[baron_piano_von_evil]

I'd love to see a Thunderbird 2 skin for the Panther Clipper Mk II as well. Imagine if there was some future world where we could launch a "Thunderbird 4" type small craft, carried by the Panther, and explore water worlds!