Narcissus Composite

Here is my composite image of Halcyon Models 1/144 scale Narcissus escape shuttle from the movie Alien flying past Uranus.


Images of the model can be seen here.

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC - 1701 (The Cage) Composite

Here is my composite image of Polar Lights 1/1000 scale first pilot episode U.S.S. Enterprise NCC - 1701 approaching the planet Talos 4.
The Talos 4 planet image is taken from the original pilot episode and then doctored up a bit by yours trully.

Images of the model can be seen here.

U.S.S. Enterprise NX - 01 Composite

Here is my composite image of Polar Lights 1/1000 scale U.S.S. Enterprise NX - 01 flying past the Jupiter moon Ganymede.

Images of the model can be seen here.

U.S.S. Enterprise E Composite

Here is my composite image of AMT/Round 2 Models 1/1400 scale U.S.S. Enterprise NCC - 1701 - E cruising over the surface of Mars.

Images of the model can be seen here.

Y Wing Starfighter Composite

Here is my composite image of Revell's 1/72 scale? Snap Tite kit Y Wing Starfighter from Star Wars approaching the Jupiter moon Europa.

Images of the model can be seen here.

Messenger Class Warp Shuttle Composite

Here is my composite image of my scratch n bash model of the Messenger Class Warp Shuttle the CS Lewis passing over the planet mercury.

Images of the model can be seen here.

Messenger Class Warp Shuttle

Here are some images of my scratch n bash model of a Messenger Class Warp Shuttle the CS Lewis.
A series of four Warp shuttles were produced of this class being first launched in 2251.
JRR Tolkien NCC-291198/630
CS Lewis NCC-291198/631
O Barfield NCC-291198/632
C Williams NCC-291198/633
Equipped with multiple sensors the Messenger Class is ideally suited for long distance scientific missions where the use of heavy cruisers wouldn't be cost effective.
Proposed shuttles are as follows
H Dyson NCC-291199/734
C Tolkien NCC-291199/735
W Lewis NCC-291199/736
RL Green NCC-291199/737
A Fox NCC-291199/738
RA Harvard NCC-291199/739
JAW Bennett NCC-291199/740
D Cecil NCC-291199/741
N Coghill NCC-291199/742

VF-4G Lightning

Here are some images of Dave Porter's 1/72 scale VF-4G Lightning and here in his own words is his description.
This is a 1/72 scale VF-4G Lightning from the anime series Macross. The kit is from AE Modelshop and it’s essentially a repop of the older B-Club offering. It fits nicely considering its made of resin. I finished it Tamiya colors and artist oils.

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC - 1701 - C Composite

Here is my composite image of Amt/Round Two Models 1/1400 scale U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701 C exiting a spacial anomaly as Amt/Round Two Models U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701 D looks on.

Images of the Enterprise C can be seen here.

Images of the Enterprise D can be seen here.

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC - 1701 - C

Here are some images of AMT/Round 2 Models 1/1400 scale U.S.S. Enterprise NCC - 1701 - C the battle damaged version from the Star Trek The Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise".

From Wikipedia"
This ship appears in the Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" (1990). It was destroyed attempting to defend the Klingon outpost Narendra III from Romulan attack. Survivors included Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby), whose alternate timeline version from "Yesterday's Enterprise" travels with the ship back in time to the battle over Narendra III. The actions of the Enterprise-C's crew became a catalyst for the alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

The Enterprise-D encounters a rift in space-time while on a routine mission. As they monitor the anomaly, the heavily damaged USS Enterprise-C, a ship believed destroyed more than two decades earlier, emerges. At that occurrence, the Enterprise-D undergoes a sudden and radical change: it is now a warship and the Federation is at war with the Klingons. Worf has disappeared and Tasha Yar mans the tactical station. None of the crew notice the change, but Guinan senses that reality has changed, and has a meeting with Captain Picard. She says, for example, that there are supposed to be children on the ship, leaving Picard greatly surprised. She suggests that the Enterprise-C does not belong in their time and should return to the past. Picard, who knows that this would be a suicide mission, refuses to give such an order on Guinan's intuition alone.

Captain Rachel Garrett of the Enterprise-C and her crew learn they have travelled into the future. Garrett explains that they were responding to a distress call from the Klingon outpost on Narendra III, and were attacked by Romulan warbirds. While the crew works to repair the Enterprise-C and tend to the crew's injuries, Picard and his command staff discuss whether or not the ship should return to the past. Riker argues that their deaths would be meaningless, but Data suggests that it would be considered an honorable act by the Klingons. Picard discusses the situation with Garrett, who tells him that her crew will serve the Federation in the present. Picard quietly reveals to her that the Federation is on the verge of defeat and the presence of one ship will make no difference, but if the Enterprise-C were to return to the past they may prevent the war from ever starting. Garrett agrees and announces to her crew that they will return through the anomaly, but at that moment, the two ships are ambushed by a Klingon Bird of Prey. Garrett is killed, and her helmsman, Richard Castillo, takes command. During the repair efforts, Yar becomes close to Castillo, but is unnerved by tense interactions with Guinan. Guinan reveals to Yar that she knows that Yar dies a meaningless death in the alternate timeline, and the two never should have met. Yar requests a transfer to the Enterprise-C based on Guinan's advice, to which Picard agrees.

As the Enterprise-C prepares to return through the anomaly, three Klingon battlecruisers attack. With the anomaly becoming unstable, Picard orders the Enterprise-D to cover the Enterprise-C's withdrawal. The Enterprise-D suffers major crew losses under the Klingon barrage, including the death of Commander Riker. The Klingons contact the Enterprise-D and demand its surrender. The bridge aflame, Picard defiantly says "That will be the day" before he leaps to the tactical station and manually fires on the Klingons. The Enterprise-C travels back through the anomaly, which causes the timeline to return to normal. Guinan, still subtly aware of the events, asks La Forge to tell her more about Yar.

Gemini Space Capsule

Here are some images of Revell's 1/24 scale Gemini Space Capsule.
This kit has been around since 1965 and is one of the famous space model kits around. My one major complaint though as time passes is the incredible lack of detail on the white section and in the interior of the craft. I can only hope that this kit gets a whole new modification or a completely new kit is created. In the meantime this will have to do. Even so it's a pretty good looking model.

From Wikipedia"

Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966.

Its objective was to develop space travel techniques in support of Apollo, which had the goal of landing men on the Moon. Gemini achieved missions long enough for a trip to the Moon and back, perfected extra-vehicular activity (working outside a spacecraft), and orbital maneuvers necessary to achieve rendezvous and docking. All manned Gemini flights were launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida using the Titan II GLV launch vehicle.

NASA selected McDonnell Aircraft, which had been the prime contractor for the Project Mercury capsule, to build the Gemini capsule in 1961 and the first capsule was delivered in 1963. The spacecraft was 19 feet long and 10 feet wide with a launch weight of 8,490 pounds. The Gemini capsule first flew with a crew on March 23, 1965.

Gemini was the first manned spacecraft to include an onboard computer, the Gemini Guidance Computer, to facilitate management and control of mission maneuvers. Unlike the Mercury, it used ejection seats, in-flight radar and an artificial horizon—devices similar to those used in the aviation industry.

Unlike Mercury, which could only rotate around the axes of pitch, yaw, and roll to change its orientation in space, the Gemini spacecraft was designed also to translate in all three perpendicular axes (forward/backward, left/right, up/down), and also to alter its orbital inclination and altitude. It used these capabilities to dock with the Agena target vehicle, which had its own rocket engine which could be used to perform larger altitude changes.

A major difference between the Gemini and Mercury spacecraft was that Mercury had all systems other than the reentry rockets situated within the capsule, most of which were accessed through the astronaut's hatchway. In contrast, Gemini housed power, propulsion, and life support systems in a detachable Equipment Module located behind the Reentry Module, which made it similar to the Apollo Command/Service Module design. Many components in the capsule itself were reachable through their own small access doors.

The original intention was for Gemini to land on solid ground instead of at sea, using a Rogallo wing rather than a parachute, with the crew seated upright controlling the forward motion of the craft. To facilitate this, the airfoil did not attach just to the nose of the craft, but to an additional attachment point for balance near the heat shield. This cord was covered by a strip of metal which ran between the twin hatches. This design was ultimately dropped, and parachutes were used to make a sea landing as in Project Mercury. The capsule was suspended at an angle closer to horizontal, so that a side of the heat shield contacted the water first. This eliminated the need for the landing bag cushion used in the Mercury capsule.

Early short-duration missions had their electrical power supplied by batteries; later endurance missions used the first fuel cells in manned spacecraft.

Pan American Space Clipper Composite

Here is my composite image of Moebius Models 1/160 scale Pan American Space Clipper (Orion III) from 2001 a space odyssey orbiting the earth.

Images of the model can be seen here.

Pan Am Space Clipper

Here are some images of Moebius Models 1/160 scale Pan American Space Clipper (Orion III) from 2001 a space odyssey. Built for a client.

From Wikipedia"
In the 1960s Pan Am established a waiting list for future flights to the moon, issuing free "First Moon Flights Club" membership cards to those who requested them. A fictional Pan Am "Space Clipper," a commercial spaceplane called the Orion III, had a prominent role in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey and was featured prominently in one of the movie's posters. Plastic models of the 2001 Pan Am Space Clipper were sold by both the Aurora Company and Airfix at the time of the film's release in 1968. A satire of the movie by Mad magazine in 1968 showed Pan Am female flight attendants in "Actionwear by Monsanto" outfits as they joked about the problems their passengers faced while vomiting in zero gravity. The film's sequel, 2010, also featured Pan Am in a background television commercial in the home of David Bowman's mother with the slogan, "At Pan Am, the sky is no longer the limit."
The Orion III is a fictional passenger spaceplane seen in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is a two-stage space shuttle launched on a reusable winged booster. It is equipped with aerospike rocket engines and jet engines for atmospheric flight. Pan American World Airways operates the Orion III, just as it operates the Aries Ib. In early stages of planning for the film, the spaceplane's engines on the back were designed to break away from the passenger section of the plane.

DeHavilland Mosquito Mk VI Fighter Bomber

Here are some better images of Airfix's 1/24 scale DeHavilland Mosquito Mk VI Fighter Bomber.

From Wikipedia"

The FB Mk VI, which first flew on 1 June 1942, was powered by two 1,460 hp (1,088 kW) Merlin 21s or 1,635 hp (1,218 kW) Merlin 25s, and introduced a re-stressed and reinforced "basic" wing structure capable of carrying single 250 lb (115 kg) or 500 lb (230 kg) bombs on racks housed in streamlined fairings under each wing, or up to eight RP-3 25lb or 60 lb rockets. In addition fuel lines were added to the wings to enable single 50 gal (227l) or 100 gal (455l) drop tanks to be carried under each wing. The usual fixed armament was four 20mm Hispano Mk.II cannon and four .303 (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns, while two 250 lb (115 kg) or 500 lb (230 kg) bombs could be carried in the bomb bay. Unlike the F Mk II, the ventral bay doors were split into two pairs, with the forward pair being used to access the cannon, while the rear pair acted as bomb bay doors. The maximum fuel load capable of being carried was 719.5 gal (3,271l) distributed between 453 gal (2,059l) internal fuel tanks, plus two overload tanks, each of 66.5 gal (302l) capacity, which could be fitted in the bomb bay, and two 100 gal (455l) drop tanks. All-out level speed is often given as 368 mph (592 km/h), however this speed applies to aircraft fitted with saxophone exhausts. The test aircraft (HJ679) fitted with stub exhausts was found to be performing below expectations. It was returned to de Havilland at Hatfield where it was serviced. Its top speed was then tested and found to be 384 mph (618 km/h), in line with expectations. 2,298 FB Mk VIs were built, nearly one-third of Mosquito production. 18 built by Airspeed Ltd were eventually modified to become FB.XVIIIs. Two were converted to TR.33 carrier-borne, maritime strike prototypes.

The FB Mk VI proved capable of holding its own with single-engine fighter aircraft. For example, on 15 January 1945 Mosquito FB Mk VIs of 143 Squadron were engaged by 30 Focke-Wulf Fw 190s from Jagdgeschwader 5: five Mosquitos were lost but five Fw 190s were shot down in return, and an armed trawler and two merchant ships were sunk.

Post Apocalyptic Catamaran Composite

Here is my composite image of my Scratch 'n ' bash 1/32 scale Post Apocalyptic Catamaran in its natural environment.

Images of the model can be seen here.

Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC Trop

Here are some better images of Trumpeter's 1/24 scale Hawker Hurricane Mk 2C Trop.

From Wikipedia"

Hurricane Mk IIC (Hurricane Mk IIA Series 2)
Hurricane Mk IIA Series 1 equipped with new and slightly longer propeller spinner and new wing mounting four 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano Mk II cannons. Hurricane IIA Series 2 became the Mk IIC in June 1941, using a slightly modified wing. The new wings also included a hardpoint for a 500 lb (230 kg) or 250 lb (110 kg) bomb, and later in 1941, fuel tanks. By then performance was inferior to the latest German fighters, and the Hurricane changed to the ground-attack role, sometimes referred to as the Hurribomber. The mark also served as a night fighter and "intruder."

1805 Swift

Here are some images of Artesania Latina's 1/50 scale Virginia pilot boat Swift.
It's interesting. I built this model about 7 years ago now and somehow it got overlooked. So without further ado...

Virginia pilot boats were used extensively on the Chesapeake and evolved into the famed Baltimore clippers.