After years of fruitless searching I have finally found an accurate, sizeable kit of the Event Horizon!
I idly tapped the words “Event Horizon kit” into Etsy, as I had done many times before - Lo and behold there was a result!
Factoria 3D in Spain are producing a kit of the “haunted house in space” in not one, but TWO scales - 1/2000 or 1/4000.
1/4000: 60cm long and 26cm wide - Central section produced in 5 parts.
1/2000: 100cm long and 35cm wide - Central section produced in 55 parts and 5 steel rods.
Firmly believing that “bigger is better” (and more detailed) I ordered the 1/2000 version and also the two etched acrylic bases (one to hold up each end of the ship) that are designed for that scale of kit.
The seller/producer, Oscar Perez, is one of the best sellers I have encountered. He kept me updated with progress pictures as the kit was printed and shipped ahead of his estimated time.
When the kit and bases arrived - packed really well - I was very impressed. The kit is of excellent quality, detail and workmanship withsensible “break points” and includes four thin but strong steel rods and four strong magnets to attach the main corridor “spine” to the bow and drive sections. The delicacy of some small parts is quite remarkable!
The bases are of sturdy construction and sharply etched, one with a key phrase from the film “Liberate Tuteme Ex Inferis” and the other with a concentric circle of lights representing the Gravity Drive core.
This is one of the more expensive kits I have bought, but I feel it’s well worth it given the rarity of kits of the Event Horizon (I only know of one other - The small “Larson Designs” version), the level of detail,which is very accurate to all references I can find, and the impressive size.
It’s going to take me some time to get around to building it, but it’s very much something to look forward to.
A built example of the kit with bases
Dalroi.
I idly tapped the words “Event Horizon kit” into Etsy, as I had done many times before - Lo and behold there was a result!
Factoria 3D in Spain are producing a kit of the “haunted house in space” in not one, but TWO scales - 1/2000 or 1/4000.
1/4000: 60cm long and 26cm wide - Central section produced in 5 parts.
1/2000: 100cm long and 35cm wide - Central section produced in 55 parts and 5 steel rods.
Firmly believing that “bigger is better” (and more detailed) I ordered the 1/2000 version and also the two etched acrylic bases (one to hold up each end of the ship) that are designed for that scale of kit.
The seller/producer, Oscar Perez, is one of the best sellers I have encountered. He kept me updated with progress pictures as the kit was printed and shipped ahead of his estimated time.
When the kit and bases arrived - packed really well - I was very impressed. The kit is of excellent quality, detail and workmanship withsensible “break points” and includes four thin but strong steel rods and four strong magnets to attach the main corridor “spine” to the bow and drive sections. The delicacy of some small parts is quite remarkable!
The bases are of sturdy construction and sharply etched, one with a key phrase from the film “Liberate Tuteme Ex Inferis” and the other with a concentric circle of lights representing the Gravity Drive core.
This is one of the more expensive kits I have bought, but I feel it’s well worth it given the rarity of kits of the Event Horizon (I only know of one other - The small “Larson Designs” version), the level of detail,which is very accurate to all references I can find, and the impressive size.
It’s going to take me some time to get around to building it, but it’s very much something to look forward to.
A built example of the kit with bases
Dalroi.
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