St. Exmin the Valkyrie - Battle Beyond The Stars

[Joseph C. Brown]

Yes, Battle Beyond The Stars, 1980, Sybil Danning playing St. Exmin the Valkyrie - her sleek, pointy... spaceship, right, spaceship (staying focused here)

This is one of those spaceships that I wanted to have my own model of ever since the very first moment that I glimpsed it. On the Shout! Factory 2011 DVD/Blu-ray release, there is a glimpse of what was planned for this ship vs what was actually used:



screen cap:



(very tentative) Parts List

Monogram F-15 Eagle 1/48
Tamiya. 1/35 Sd.Kfz. 232 Schwerer Panzerspahwagen 8-Rad
Lindberg / Glencoe Lunar lander
Airfix Saturn V
Tamiya 1/35 20mm Flak38 Sd.Ah.52
Tamiya 1/35 German 88mm Gun Flak 36/37
Tamiya 1/35 German Hanomag Sd.Kfz. 251/1
Airfix SRN4 Hovercraft
Hasegawa-Minicraft 1/72 Leopold
Plastruct 6mm spheres
lots of sheet styrene

My (rough) working drawings:



Cutting and gluing:



My best size guesstimate is 7 inches wide by 13 inches (or so...)




Starboard side:




Forward / nose / bow view:


More as I get the chance; this ship and Cowboy's Freight Hauler will be at Wonderfest in 4 days!

 

[Joseph C. Brown]

This build went crazy fast for me... no time pressure over Wonderfest, nope, not me!

More detailing:



The forward section:


Primed, portside:


Primed, starboard:


Primed, forward:


Primed, port forward:

 

[JMChladek]

The color selection should be quite interesting.

 

[Joseph C. Brown]

Agreed - I'm going with a dirty, dark-ish Gull Gray, and adding the orange highlights to the fins. The canopy area gets Tamiya Gold, and then the whole model gets a overspray with dullcoat.

Here's a screencap from near the end of the movie, right when St. Exmin seperates the forward portion of her ship:

 

[Joseph C. Brown]

The color selection should be quite interesting.

You need to post the pic I badgered you into taking at Wonderfest, Jay!