Valerian Spaceship?

[Avanaut]

Hi all,

I've been around and about here for a while now and I've seen loads of spectacular spaceship builds. Hugely entertaining, I must say!

I wonder, has anyone ever built the spaceship from the French comic Valerian? Valerian (in Wikipedia) has a lot of similarities to Star Wars, their worlds are not that far off each other, as seen in this post, and I think the spaceship (Astroship, the XB982) with all the greeblies and stuff should translate quite well to physical form.

Every now and then there are rumors on turning Valerian into a movie, the one from June 2012 with Luc Besson helming is a promising one. I hope it's happening because I liked the vibe on the 5th Element, which, of course, borrowed a lot from Valerian.

Anyway, if you know about a Valerian build, I sure would like to know about it, too.


Cheers,
Vesa

 

[cabour]

This ship is in my never ending list of projects to do one day

Never seen it in physical model, but in 3D and Lego (and maybe a papercraft, but I am not 100% sure).

After a quick search, I found the lego :
Brickshelf Gallery - le vaisseau de Valerian - un agent spatio-temporel - une BD francaise de Mezieres et Christin - Dargaud ed

For the 3D, I only found this one, for a game it seems
Site de la communauté francophone Orbiter - XB982 VALERIAN & LAURELINE v2

For note : Jean-Claude Mézières, the illustrator of this comics, worked on Besson 5th Element movie, and designed Corben flying taxi.
Jean "Moebius" Giraud also worked with him on this movie.

 

[Avanaut]

Oo, that Lego ship is nice, never seen it before. Thanks!

I always thought it was a genious move from the filmmakers to hire Mézières, and Giraud of course, for the 5th Element. The models from that film have been up in RPF earlier.

 

[dorre]

Look at my and Peter´s design...
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=jNIsCe4Ez_8