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Showing posts with label Sci Fi Misc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sci Fi Misc. Show all posts

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Pinto Spaceship

Here are some images of MPC/Kit Bash 1/24 scale Pinto Spaceship from the movie 5-25-77.
I didn't make the poster.

Plus here is an Alan Parsons song/video entitled "I Can't Get There From Here" featuring scenes from the movie including the Pinto Spaceship.



From Wikipedia"
5-25-77 is a coming of age film written and directed by Patrick Read Johnson and produced by Fred Roos and Gary Kurtz. It stars John Francis Daley as a teenage filmmaker living in Wadsworth, Illinois, and his excitement for the premiere of Star Wars on May 25, 1977. Johnson began funding the project in 2001 and filming took place from 2004-2006. Additional shots were filmed in 2015 and 2016, making the filming course span a total of thirteen years.
The film was first known as 5-25-77; the title was then changed to '77. In 2012, the title was reverted to 5-25-77.
The film was finally released in May 2017.

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Flying Saucer

Here are some images plus a composite of my kit bash model of a Flying Saucer.
I basically just used Testors S4 UFO model as a basis. Added a bunch of lights. Removed the top, cut a hole placed a garden scene inside, put on a magnifying lens and there you have it.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Aerial Hunter Killer

Here are some images of Horizon Models 1/35 scale? Aerial Hunter Killer From the Movie Terminator.
I can't give you a guarantee as regards the scale. The Pegasus Models says their kit is 1/32 scale but is only about half the size of the Horizon kit which claims it's kit is 1/35 scale
Upon seeing pictures of the studio model it becomes apparent that the Horizon kit contains inaccuracies particularly around the front section. The Pegasus kit though smaller is more accurate.

From Terminator Wiki

The term HK-Aerial refers to a wide variety of Skynet's large airborne VTOL-capable Non-Humanoid Hunter Killers. Featuring a devastating array of under-slung and wing-mounted lasers, missiles, and plasma cannons, the HK-Aerial is fearsome and terrifying to behold. 

Often operating in support of ground sweeps by swarms of Series 800 Endoskeletons, they are one of the more dangerous targets for the members of the Resistance to engage.
HK-Aerials can be brought down by shoulder fired surface to air missiles.

There are light raiders seen patrolling the wastelands of the Future War, massive and heavily armed ground support craft, as well as troop transport variants which on occasion have been captured and subverted for use by the Resistance.The HK-Aerial has been deployed in many configurations by both Skynet and the Soviet Artificial Intelligence MIR.
In Terminator Salvation timeline, an HK-Aerial is able to carry T-700 Terminator onboard.
In Terminator Genisys timeline, an HK-Aerial is able to store and carry a Spider Tank

CSM-300 A-1000 "Dragon" is a variant of the HK-Aerial.
Judging by its appearance, the Dragon is possibly the standard HK-Aerial as seen in the film The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Ranger From Interstellar

Here are some images of Moebius Models 1/72 scale Ranger from the movie Interstellar.

From Wikipedia"
Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction adventure drama film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine. The film features a crew of astronauts who travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity. Brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan wrote the screenplay, which has its origins in a script Jonathan developed in 2007. Christopher Nolan produced the film with his wife Emma Thomas through their production company Syncopy and with Lynda Obst through Lynda Obst Productions. Caltech theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, whose work inspired the film, was an executive producer and acted as scientific consultant. Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, and Legendary Pictures co-financed the film.
Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot the movie on 35 mm (in anamorphic format) and IMAX 70 mm film. Filming commenced in late 2013 in Alberta, Iceland and Los Angeles. The film utilized extensive practical and miniature effects, while Double Negative created additional digital effects.
Interstellar premiered on October 26, 2014 in Los Angeles. In North America, it was released on film stock, expanding to venues using digital projectors. The film was successful at the box office with a worldwide gross of over $672 million, and received positive reviews from critics, who gave particular praise to the film's scientific accuracy; science fiction themes; musical score; visual effects; and the performances of McConaughey, Hathaway, Chastain, and Mackenzie Foy. It received several awards and nominations. At the 87th Academy Awards the film won the Best Visual Effects award and was also nominated for Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Production Design.

Monday, June 8, 2015

Post Apocalyptic Submarine

Here are some images of my scratch/ kit bash 1/72 scale Post Apocalyptic Submarine.
This model was built from the other Trieste II DSV kit. The remnants of two ME 262 jet engines, a TV aerial, the rudder from a HE 177 and various sundries of greebling and wotnot.

The two main things in my opinion that are important when creating post apocalyptic machinery is that it must look like it was put together piece meal, as one would expect to see in a post apocalyptic environment. The second thing is that they must have a face. I feel it gives an addition of character to said model.

Post Apocalyptic Catamaran

Here are some images of my scratch 'n' bash 1/32 scale Post Apocalyptic Catamaran.
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Monday, February 9, 2015

Robot From Lost In Space 1998

Here are some images of AMT's 1/6 scale Robot from the movie Lost in space 1998.

From Fantastic Plastic "

"Unlike the more benign B-9 (pun intended) of the original
"Lost in Space" TV series, this movie robot was trouble from the word "go."  With its insect-like segmented body, huge lobster claws, Schwarzenegger-esque torso and "hip arms," the robot was hell on wheels -- er, treads -- until it was deactivated and rebuilt by the always-intrepid boy-genius Will Robinson.

Friday, January 30, 2015

Jupiter 2 From "Lost In Space" (1998)

Here are some images of AMT's Jupiter 2 from the 1998 film "Lost in space"

From "Lost in Space Wiki"

Jupiter 2 was a spaceship designed and constructed by the United Global Space Force and was meant to take the Robinson Family to the planet Alpha Prime orbiting in the solar system of Alpha Centauri. It was here, that the Robinson Family would help with completion of the Hyper gate; which thereby, would allow the one back on earth to connect the two so as to allow the human species to journey to another planet capable of sustaining life.
The Jupiter 2,consisted of a shell, that resembled the saucer shaped star ship, from the series, while situated within a similar launch pad gantry system. The Jupiter 2 would lift off by conventional propulsion means into orbit and once above the Earth, would break apart revealing the actual Jupiter 2 star ship.
However, the mission was jeopardized when a lone rogue spy for the Global Sedition Force could sabotage the whole operation and thereby prevent the Robinson Family from reaching their destination. The mission was a failure and the crew and the spaceship Jupiter 2 were now lost in empty space. The Jupiter 2 was being drawn toward the sun, and Major West felt using the ship experimental drive, would propel the ship away from danger. Unfortunately, this was an uncharted jump and the Jupiter 2 leaped into uncharted deep space. 

 According to Lost in Space manuals and blueprints, published at the time, there was supposed to be a lower deck, where new versions of the Space Pod and Space Chariot were stored. Although, in the actual movie, nothing of that sort was seen.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Flying Saucer

Here are some images Lindberg models 1/48 scale "Flying Saucer".
From Fantastic Plastic"
The Lindberg "Flying Saucer" holds a place in history as being the world's first injection-molded science-fiction model. Re-released repeatedly during the 1950s and 1960s, it again hit the shelves in the 1970s in a "glow-in-the-dark" version, in the 1990s as one of the Golden Age science fiction kits resurrected by Glencoe Models, and finally in 2011 by Atlantis Models, which specialized in flying saucer subjects.
The model was also released by Lindberg in the mid-1950s as part of its "Spaceships of the Future" and "Past, Present and Future" collector's sets.
This classic alien "flying saucer" comes straight from the Golden Age of Little Green Men. A basic convex disc with a bubble-dome cockpit within which the big-headed Martian pilot is visible, the craft also featured twin jet/rocket engines on its "tail," additional engines on its "rotating" rim, and a pair of "zap guns" for shooting down pesky Air Force fighter planes. A timeless relic of Eisenhower Era mythology and paranoia, the Lindberg "Flying Saucer" captures in plastic the hopes, fears and innocence of Pre-Sputnik America.
From Atlantis.com" Scale models have been used for the real thing since the earliest days of film making. So it's rather appropriate that the first plastic space model was, in all likelihood, the first such kit to be used in a movie. In 1956 film maker Ed Wood used a few Lindberg flying saucer kits in his "Plan 9 From Outer Space" minus their jet engines and suspended on wires. The Lindberg models were mistakenly thought to be spinning Chevy wheel covers, a myth perpetuated by Tim Burton in his biopic of Ed Wood.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Multi Staged Transport Rocket

Here are some images plus a couple of composites of Lindberg's 1/200 scale U.S.S. Explorer.
Here is another kit that was originally issued in the late 1950's only then it was known as the "Multi Staged Transport Rocket".
This is another kit that was of coarse based heavily on Werner Von Braun's design to which of coarse inevitably became the Apollo Staturn 5 rocket.