Spectrum Commander COLONEL WHITE

The Sevans Colonel White model is the rarest on the planet.  Many dealers and collectors don’t know about it, or said it had only been planned and never made; some still believe that those in circulation are not genuine.  It’s not listed in memorabilia guides. But Sevans did make a very, very small number of Colonel White models.

Only 95 Colonel White models were made. That number is right --- 95, not 90. They were made in 1997. Sales of the Captain Scarlet models had fallen off and Sevans decided that a new model would not be worth manufacturing and marketing. Ninety that were already made were packed in a pictureless numbered-edition boxes. But four more were packed in the same kind of large boxes that the other models in the series were and had full-colour pictures pasted on the front. And one model, the prototype, was built by Stuart Evans and used for the box cover photo.

As far as it is known, the 90 plain-boxed Colonel White models were never made available to the general public and were not listed in any official catalogue, which helps to explain why so many people doubt the model's authenticity. Most of the plain-boxed models were given away or sold privately. There’s no idea how many were built up and how many are still in the boxes.

They don't often come up for sale, but when they do they sell for up to $500 US.

The four colour-picture boxes were not sold. Three were given away.  One was kept by Stuart Evans, owner of Sevans Models. Evans built the model that is pictured on the box. He also scratch-built Colonel White's desk for the photo. The desk is not included in the model kit and there is no separate kit for it. (Information and pictures given by Tiger Jackson. Thank you very much! C.B.)

One of the 90 pictureless numbered edition boxes.

Only 4 of those boxes, with a picture of the model pasted on it, exist in the world.

The highly detailed prototype by Stuart Evans, who also built the 

control test.