Cygnus (The Black Hole)

a6m5zerosen wrote:

The MPC Cygnus wasn't a bad kit, but to make an accurate replica, two kits are needed-the kit as is is missing a complete "section" of its center structure.  The ship (when viewed from the side in the film) is very long and thin-much longer than the MPC model.  This is due to the missing section of the kit.  Fortunately, it is very simple to add this "section" and create an accurate replica...provided you have two Cygnus kits, one of which you are willing to chop up with a razor saw...

This has got to be some sort of record, answering a question asked over 6 years ago.

I built that thing when I was a kid, probably somewhere around 1980.  It was in that era when I was building lots of sci fi kits (sci fi movies were the rage with Star Wars, Star Trek, The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, Buck Rogers, The Black Hole, Battlestar Galactica on TV, and Flash Gordon all being pre-eminent stuff for a pre-teen ...)  I had built a number of kits with home-made lighting, a Buck Rogers Marauder that I lit up as well as the MPC Millennium Falcon that came with lights.

I remember not really liking the look of my Cygnus after I first built it.  I had wanted to install my lighting system into the Cygnus but it was beyond me to even know where to begin to removing all that plastic from around the framework.  So I got some bright fluorescent yellow paint and went to town.  No photos of this exist, and in fact the kit no longer exists, but when I was finished I was far happier with it.  I even planned to use it in an 8mm movie I was going to make, but I think I ended up using a die cast metal Star Destroyer I had instead.