Pete Juengst, Vernon Hills, Illinois
Take it away, Pete: “Starting with a Monogram F-101 Voodoo, miscellaneous leftovers, styrene rod, sheet, and strip, a pingpong ball, parts of old flash cubes, and a healthy bit of unhinged imagination, I ‘grew’ this variant of the ‘Star Wars’ X-Wing fighter. The pingpong ball is used for the refractory-lined chamber fed by two ‘focused translocators’ (OK, transporter beams) that cause equal masses to exist in the same space and time, resulting in matter-matter annihilation, the energy from which is converted by the refractory lining to a usable energy to power the inertial drive engines, weapons, and onboard systems. The ovoid objects (top center aft, and below the starboard wing) are long-range sensor pods built up from the bowls of four plastic spoons. The digital camo is the result of three coats of paint and about 1,500 little squares and rectangles of masking tape,” Pete says.