Models we'd like to have seen made
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It would have been nice to see a Phase II Enterprise completed according to the plans and notes made at the time but it's not happening.
What's left in the posters and diagrams that still exist contradicts itself.
There's also the small fact that details get added during and after a model's finished included revamped paint jobs and greeblies not on the blueprints.
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Other things I'd like to see finished.
More models based on discarded ideas and subplots from the original Star Wars trilogy. There are some nice unused ship designs and characters including alternate Vaders and Fetts.
There were a lot of nice ideas from the sketches and pre-productions paintings by Ralph McQuarrie as well as the designs and blueprints by Joe Johnston and other effects/artists like Nilo Rodis-Jamero (sp).
What's left in the posters and diagrams that still exist contradicts itself.
There's also the small fact that details get added during and after a model's finished included revamped paint jobs and greeblies not on the blueprints.
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Other things I'd like to see finished.
More models based on discarded ideas and subplots from the original Star Wars trilogy. There are some nice unused ship designs and characters including alternate Vaders and Fetts.
There were a lot of nice ideas from the sketches and pre-productions paintings by Ralph McQuarrie as well as the designs and blueprints by Joe Johnston and other effects/artists like Nilo Rodis-Jamero (sp).
Re: Models we'd like to have been made
I have a small VF Dark Star. I'll trade it to you for any outdated flight maps from anywhere, you might have lying around and don't want.
I have a small VF Dark Star. I'll trade it to you for any outdated flight maps from anywhere, you might have lying around and don't want.
One day many years ago I was driving to LA from San Diego and what was broken down on the side of the road.
THE BIG BUS.
They were actually driving it around on the freeways.
I really thought I was dreaming.
Had some great pics but they have been lost to time.
Joseph C. Brown
Sr Member
There have been two Gunstar resin kits that I know of; Randy Cooper mastered one, and MiM (I think) still sells them. Now discontinued, TM Lindsey did a smaller one (1/100 scale) that had opened-up Death Blossom panels and it was an exquisite model:
Metalalien
Sr Member
The Starcar from Starfighter would be awesome too! V'Ger is still the top of my list. We didn't even know what it really looks like until recently.
Smiling Demon
Sr Member
I always loved the Phantom Cruiser from Space Ghost:
I ran accross a website a couple of years ago where someone made a scratchbuild of this out of a 5 gallon bucket. I may still have some of the pics saved. I will look for them and get back to you.
Joseph C. Brown
Sr Member
Yep, 5-gallon canister of birdseed. My cat-modeling-assistant Spike knocked it over right when I had been trying to figure out how to do the curve on the Phantom Cruiser's wing. So I traced a paper template of the wing onto the can, grabbed the jigsaw, and had a rough wing in five minutes! Again, CultTvman had a bunch of my builds on his previous site, and that's where you might have seen this model.
I used the Big Little Book The Sorceress of Cyba-3 as my main references because the Phantom Cruiser simply was better drawn in there than in the cartoon series.
trekriffic
Sr Member
I was gonna say, your model doesn't quite look like the Phantom Cruiser as I remembered it from the Saturday morning cartoon, but, I see now you went with a different version that I'm not familiar with. That said, your scratch build is spot on to the one in that illustration from the Big Little Book. Well done!
Re: Models we'd like to have been made
Wished you asked that six months ago, I trashed years of them cleaning up my rats nest of junk. I got like four old ones I have in my office at work. What's this little guy look like?
Wished you asked that six months ago, I trashed years of them cleaning up my rats nest of junk. I got like four old ones I have in my office at work. What's this little guy look like?
Alan Cross
Sr Member
LOVE the Phantom Cruiser from Space Ghost... I'd also love to see more Miyazaki stuff. Though there already IS a Howls Moving Castle pre-built maquette. I have that. And the Flapter model kit from Laputa. And the Laputa robot too. All well made. Always wanted to see someone do the wall mounted "new location" dial from Howl's Moving Castle. i know that's not the right name for it. But it's the dial that teleport/changes the location of where the door allows you to exit. (If that makes any sense.)
And, of course, E.T.'s spaceship! (A good one by someone who's a pro, like Randy Cooper)
And, of course, E.T.'s spaceship! (A good one by someone who's a pro, like Randy Cooper)
Lord Boron
Sr Member
The USS Cygnus from the Black Hole. It would require A LOT of photo etch.
I'd love to see the Cygnus! That'd be awesome... as well as a Leonav from 2010... and what about some of the ships from Starship Troopers?
OUTATIME1984
New Member
i'd like to see the Space Ship, Enforcer Drone, farm zoid, and the aliens from the 1990 movie Spaced Invaders
JMChladek
Sr Member
The ships in Starchaser were actually early CGI where they animated over wireframe models (time period would be between Tron and Last Starfighter). The CG models were used to render the scenes with the choreographed movements and they went to animate over them presumably to cut down the render time and get the scenes done faster. As a result, they got some pretty fluid motions to their results. Indeed I love the whole animation quality of Starchaser from beginning to end as it has almost a similar feel to Heavy Metal from a few years earlier as opposed to Japanese anime. I wouldn't quite call it a Star Wars ripoff though. Granted elements of it were inspired, but they did change things up rather nicely IMHO.
The Starchaser itself is one of my personal favorites. I believe somebody has done a really good paper model of it, but indeed I would love to see a real model kit of it as well.
Zombie_61
Master Member
I haven't purchased from them in quite a while, so I can't definitively say they're still in business, but you should check out Skyhook Models' website--they produce five different kits featuring this ship. I have their "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers vs. the Capitol" kit (the ship crashing into the dome of the U.S. Capitol building) and the castings are flawless.
Veering away from sci-fi for a moment, I'm a little surprised no company has produced a 1/24 or 1/25 scale kit of the Bluesmobile yet. I know there are 1/18 and 1/64 scale diecast versions available, but I'd much prefer a styrene kit that I can build myself and is the same scale as my various other car kits.
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Stu Pidasso
Active Member
Re: Models we'd like to have been made
There's a smaller version out now from Stargazer Models. Linkie!
There's a smaller version out now from Stargazer Models. Linkie!
