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Star Wars Y-Wing Fighter The 1/48 SMT (Scale Models Technologies) resin model. Mastered by Alfred Wong. A very good, easy to build kit. Just for the hell of it, I added my Dad's squadron emblem. |
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USOS Seaview, SSRN-1 The PolarLights repop of the Aurora Seaview (from the 60s tv series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", for you cave dwellers). In a diorama inspired by the opening scene of the pilot movie. |
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USOS Seaview, SSRN-1 The Lunar Models 32-inch long vacuform Seaview model. I added a lighting kit scarfed from the Ertl Star Trek movie Enterprise. There are blinking running lights on the two tailfin tips and the conning tower, a working headlight, lights inside the bow windows (but no detail), and red/green nav lights under the foreplanes. The switch is on the deck just aft of the sail. She also sports 1" Dumas screws in the propulsion units. The stand was made from wood. |
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The Flying Sub "FS-1 to Seaview, FS-1 to Seaview..." The Flying Sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. This kit was originally made by Aurora in the 60s. It was rereleased by Aurora in the 70s, just before the company closed down. Monogram bought out Aurora and sat on the molds for a while. Then in the 80s they molded a bunch of kits in partnership with Tsukuda in Japan and sold them from Japan as expensive exports. Then, after I spent $36 each for two of the Tsukuda releases, happy as a clam that I finally had a good old Flying Sub, Monogram released them in the US in the early 90s for a shelf price of about $15. Story of my life. This pic is a Tsukuda model on an original Aurora stand. |
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The Moon Bus From the motion picture "2001: A Space Odyssey." Monsters in Motion's 16" (1/32 Scale) resin kit |
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One Man Space Pod From the motion picture "2001: A Space Odyssey." Captain Cardboard's 1/6 scale resin garage kit, lit with an Ertl fiber-optic kit. |
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Warhammer 40,000 Dark Eldar "RAVAGER" Warhammer's plastic and metal kit. 1.48 Scale? |
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Dick Tracy's Space Coupe - kinda The Polar Lights repop of the old Aurora kit. I was going to paint it in it's proper all-yellow Police scheme, but one look at it's can-shaped hull and the light bulb went off over my head, for better of worse. The Pepsi markings are one great big decal. I scanned the can and traced out the logo in CorelDraw, and printed it with an Alps 5000 printer on blank decal paper. I also cut out the opaque kit windshield and replaced it with a clear sheet back-painted metallic green; and drilled out the headlight holes and put mirrors behind them. |
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The Planet Express The spaceship from Matt Groening's sci fi spoof cartoon "Futurama." Resin garage kit by Skyhook Models, painted with craft acrylics. |
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Trade Federation Tank The Ertl kit, of the Droid-driven laser tank from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace |
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Earth Force Star Fury fighter Monogram's Babylon 5 kit painted in the colors of my father's WWII unit, the 333rd fighter squadron, 318th group. The decals were home made. |
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Desert Drop Ship Halcyon's orbital Drop Ship model from the movie "Aliens" done up in a spurious desert camo. |
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The Batwing The batplane kit from the first Tim Burton/Michael Keaton Batman film. I gave it a modern glass instrument panel with MFDs and a rear-view mirror, and painted Batman in his correct colors. I was always quite pleased with the way the differential skin textures came out on this. |
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