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I wonder if deep sea fish inspired H.R. Giger: https://www.livescience.com/animals/fish/why-do-deep-sea-fish-look-like-aliens The Black Dragonfish and Orcas are closest perhaps..Morays actually have an inner jaw…Dragonfly larva can shoot jaws forward…

There was an interior shot of Ripley in front of a huge window, surrounded by layers of what I think were different scales of model space shuttle External Tanks. That and the artificial interior rain made me wonder if part of the movie took place in the refinery being towed and not just...

That’s the one. The bluer one—I wonder if that may have inspired TMP’s Aztec… Not the spaceplane—but wasn’t there a Starraker craft with an Egyptian eye on the prow?

One problem I had with some of the greeblefication of Miranda models in Deep Space Nine was that the miscellaneous parts were large in relation to the size of the model. Here, greebles might be a bit less jarring with an otherwise clean look largely remaining. Had I the time or money, I might...

“Ever since the Space Launch System was cancelled in favor of SpaceX’s Starship, NASA’s crawler wandered the lowly abodes of the Sahara….” Attenborough voice off

That central antenna farm really adds character.

I remember a pharmacy that had a lovely cone shaped pen..but couldn’t find it again. https://shop.bombingscience.com/molotow-640pp-20mm-burner-marker.html?gc_id=18956571319&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIt6WgqYughQMV67VaBR1UGgIyEAQYASABEgKL6_D_BwE...

Pens and novelties might be a source.

I think one of the things kicked around would be for the nacelles longitudinal grids that faced each other -and the aft nacelle caps—to have a continuation of the production front nacelle domes pattern. That might be nice.

Reminds me a bit of the Connestoga II Starliner from the TTA https://www.khantazi.org/Rec/TTABooks/ImageRef.html

I seem to remember a drawing of this phaser with the grip pointed at the bottom…in the Federation Reference Series https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/frs/frs-1-sheet-13.jpg

Looks like things are really progressing on this front https://phys.org/news/2024-03-dual-wavelength-olefin-metathesis-3d.html https://phys.org/news/2024-03-high-microscale-3d-technique.html https://hackaday.com/2024/03/15/glow-plug-turned-metal-capable-3d-printer-hotend/...

The smallest https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Stardestroyer

Now, we’re those doors shed or remain attached for actual Moon missions?

When I first laid eyes of WEST END GAMES Interdictor…I thought it would make for a sleeker ISD replacement without the spheres—a pre-FIRST ORDER design. A stock Revell might be good for that with a new bridge. We never saw a kit of the very smooth ISD from Rebels with the taller tower.