Battle Beyond the Stars....ship help needed

[Bad Wolf]

hi all.
i'm looking to see if anyone has good ref pics of Robert Vaughn's (Gelt was the characters name) ship from the 1980 movie Battle Beyond the Stars.
it kinda looked like a manta ray with no tail.
pics of the actual filming model would be best but clear screen caps would work also.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks much.

 

[Jedi Dade]

His name was Gelt, ship was called several things on the internet - Gelt's Hunter, Gelts Bullet... at least. but there are a few good pics here:

Gelts ship Battle Beyond the Stars - Google Search

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[Bad Wolf]

thanks for the link.
yeah, those are the same pics i originally found.
there's got to more (better) out there

 

[edge10]

Have you seen the Sense of Scale video?

I don't know if there are any pictures of Gelt's ship in there.

 

[Bad Wolf]

interesting video, thanks!

 

[ajamodels]

Auctioned recently. Also, the bluray has some great pics.

 

[Bad Wolf]

holy cow!!! thanks, ajamodels, that's an awesome pic!!!

 

[Millenniumf]

Love that 70s aesthetic for the BBTS ships, and Gelt's ship is one of my favorites!

 

[skiffy]

In that video there's a partial shot of the (vertical) Gelt ship behind another ship at about 3.08.

 

[Bad Wolf]

i totally missed that! thanks!!

 

[Joseph C. Brown]

On one of the FB groups devoted to Practical Effects, Stephen R Santangelo posted a number of the pictures he took at Corman's Venice Lumberyard studio in 1980; just a port-side view, but, very nice:

 

[Bad Wolf]

great pic!!
thanks very much!

 

[JOATRASH FX]

Hey guys. I'm helping Bad Wolf look into this with the intent of maybe doing a model of it in the future.

Auctioned recently. Also, the bluray has some great pics.

I scoured the net for the auction photos, but the links don't work and the Internet Archive doesn't have the site saved either. Those photos would probably have been pure gold.

On one of the FB groups devoted to Practical Effects, Stephen R Santangelo posted a number of the pictures he took at Corman's Venice Lumberyard studio in 1980; just a port-side view, but, very nice:

That's a nice shot! Gives a good idea of the silhouette from the side.

 

[Joseph C. Brown]

Those photos would probably have been pure gold.

..or, not. Sometimes the auction pics are indeed awesome, some, not so much. Here's the only pic I have found from the auction:

 

[Joseph C. Brown]

Slightly better, but it was apparently the only image they showed:

 

[ProfKSergeev]

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[JOATRASH FX]

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Whoooooa! Thank you, those are absolutely gorgeous!

 

[Bad Wolf]

holy cow!! that's the mother load of pics!!! lol
thanks so much of the link!!!

 

[ajamodels]

Looks like Bob Lindenmayer is the guy who won the auction!! Thanks for posting Bob.

 

[joberg]

On one of the FB groups devoted to Practical Effects, Stephen R Santangelo posted a number of the pictures he took at Corman's Venice Lumberyard studio in 1980; just a port-side view, but, very nice:

This is the mock-up; not the final model on screen