Star Wars- Rebel Blockade Runner, Super Star Destroyer, Mon Calamari Cruiser, TIE Bomber...

The Red Dwarf.

Starbug to go with Red Dwarf.

Seems like Britans did some die-cast from Gerry Andersen's UFO, but nothing much else came out of that long-running series.

The lack of 1:1 ST TOS items always has nagged at me, especially given how obviously large  the target demographic is.  Given the rise of multi-media (and the availability of rare-earth magnets) this continuing gap is also puzzling.

Oh <ding!> there's almost no B5 stuff, despite there being 5 seasons of that show.

Of course, what would be cool would be stuff from the Association of Sentient Species Vorpal Blade series--but we might need a lot more Baen Books readers.

CapnMac82

Seems like Britans did some die-cast from Gerry Andersen's UFO, but nothing much else came out of that long-running series.

There were Japanese kits of the UFO Interceptor (Bandai and Imai), SHADO Mobiles, Sky-1(Imai?) and SID (Bandai?)

I do wonder sometimes..... For example you see kits of some off the wall stuff but the Klingon Bird of Prey pops up in I think every original series movie from TSFS onward and mostly every STTNG episode with Klingons and it takes what 10-15 years for an injection molded kit!

CapnMac82: Actually there was quite a bit of B5 stuff, though almost all resin and most is out of production now. I was lucky to pick up most of the kits though I'm still lacking the Thunderbolt Starfury and the Narn cruiser kits.

I've always found the lack of Doctor Who kits kinda puzzling. I mean 50 zillion different dalek toys and only one or two kits from the original series, and I think all but one of those are off the market now. Comet Miniatures I think did a couple of 1/6th scale figures of the 1st though 6th Doctors but again they've been out of production for years.

And speaking of Baen, after looking over some of the blueprints in the later novels I've thought about trying to scratchbuild some of the Manticore Navy vessels from David Weber's Honor Harrington series. Probably never get around to it though.

Revell-Monogram did the B5 and the Starfury in two different boxings, probably the two kits that appealed to younger Americans. I think the ST:Voyager line killed the notion of an expanded line; the Voyager sold well, but the Maquis ship, Kazon ship and Kazon torpedo all died on the vine.

How about an AFFORDABLE Nautilus (Disney) as an injection molded kit?? Sure, there are all sorts of speciality resin/fiberglass/white metal replicas of this submarine but they are: 1- hard to find, 2- you really don't know what your getting (quality wise). The BIG version is mainly for R/C builders and is quite expensive. The Disney version of Vernes sub is the most pleasing appearence and I can not figure out why no one has approached them from a PLASTIC manufacturing company. It can't be about licensing, how do the cottage industries get around them? The movie (and sub) have been around since 1955 perhaps one of the plastic tycoons will get on the ball. After all we've got the Seaview and that thing from the Seaquest TV series.

Master of the World model, put me down for one!

Yeah, I consider myself lucky to have picked up the B5 station kit and have over the years grabbed two of the original Starfury kits and three of the corrected second release kits.

Yes I am hording them...

The Kazon torpedo, when I first saw it in the hobby shop my first thought was - 'Huh? I bet this sells well.' Did it ever appear on more than one episode?!?!  

Also I would have loved to seen more 'Farscape' stuff but I don't think the show was ever that popular. I have found and stashed the resin 'Moya' kit, the 1/6th Chiana figure and a life-sized DRD. 

The last Nautilus kit in plastic was the Revell-Monogram kit issued in 1998 and based on the Crayola Kids TV series' rendition of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Strange that a kids' TV show (entire cast is of kids) gets a model kit, but not the iconic Disney version.

www.imdb.com/.../tt0233493

2001 space pod

2001 Aries 1b

Planet of the Apes Liberty 1

In real space, sort of:

X-20

Soviet lunar lander

MOL

The TARDIS from "Doctor Who".

Any "Space:1999" ships.

Anything from "Falling Skies".

The Jetson's hover cars.

U-505, the German sub captured on June 4, 1944.

Wildman!

Airfix did a Tardis, and Mobius did the Jetson's car.  Both were released just a few years ago.

I'd like Spaceman Spiff and his Saucer.

Iraqiwinldman

You can get pretty much all the Space 1999 kits from Warp, but they are not cheap (I have all of the Warp ones now). Some of the rarer ones are available too such as the Swift but that is way expensive at £200 (say $300) and if you want I know people who can get you full studio scale 44' Eagles but they will cost thousands.

Capnmark82

You can get more B5 stuff but again its hard to find and goes for a premium, I have two of the Starfury's. I've seen Warp kits for the Earth Force destroyers and will set you back $100 approx and the Shadow ship for about $80. I have a Narn fighter and Thunderbolt in the stash and I've seen a Vorlon ship on Ebay. I also have a UFO interceptor in resin which I hear is pretty rare these days.

I'd like to see the Liberator from Blake's 7, I know there is a kit out there but I've heard it not very good.

A nice sized Huey, Dewy and Louie from Silent Running would be nice too.

Phil

Where did you find the Polar Lights releases on the M-in-M website?  I don't keep up with it regularly, and I haven't been able to track down the release list.

I know the Halo universe is not a real classic, but I think it has some really cool stuff in it (my favorite Sci-Fi universe). Not to mention that it exists for 12 years already with 8 games produced and a 9th announced, as well as a bunch of well-written books expanding the universe even more...

My favorites are:

UNSC "Pillar Of Autumn" (Halo CE - the first game):

UNSC "Forward Unto Dawn" (Halo 3):

UNSC "Infinity" (Halo 4):

I'd also love some figures of Halo characters (especially the Master Chief):

any spacecraft from the Buck Rogers T.V. series from the late 1970's

I'm afraid to ask what a resin Moya goes for; let alone a B5 station.

Same way I've never looked to see if there was a K-9 from Dr Who, which ought to be an obvious styrene kit of some size, but is probably a dinky resin kit in costly short-run form.  C'est la vie as out amies français say.

Now, there are some ought-to-be made kits.  Bun-Bun comes to mind.  Posleen saucer and O'neal's fighting suit would be cool (if bank account draining).

A complete set of Bolo tanks would be a task, especially for the sizes needed.

OLD spaceships:

“Destiny”, a ship “built millions of years ago by the Ancients”, in Stargate Universe. 

“Master Cruiser 12-12-12” from Across Time by David Grinnell. (762,891+ years)

A thousand-year-old spaceship from “The Thing” (John Carpenter).

AND

CapnMac82

A complete set of Bolo tanks would be a task, especially for the sizes needed.

I WANT A BOLO! By preference, I want a Bolo Stupendous, Mark XXV, namely BBI “Bobby” from “A Relic of War”.

And I’d LOVE to do a diorama based on Bobby’s line: “Unit Nine five four of the Line, reporting contact with hostile force. Enemy destroyed.” If I had a Stupendous, I’d be home free for a diorama because the unnamed enemy is described as a smoking ruin!!!

p51mustang

any spacecraft from the Buck Rogers T.V. series from the late 1970's

The Buck Rogers Starfighter and Draconian Marauder from this series was kitted by Monogram back in the day. If I recall correctly, the Starfighter was reboxed (and re-released?) by Tsukuda in Japan.

Phil_H

p51mustang

any spacecraft from the Buck Rogers T.V. series from the late 1970's

The Buck Rogers Starfighter and Draconian Marauder from this series was kitted by Monogram back in the day. If I recall correctly, the Starfighter was reboxed (and re-released?) by Tsukuda in Japan.

I had both of those kits. Wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better than the Cylon Raider and Colonial Viper kits of a couple years before.

Moebius are redoing the original Viper and Cylon Raider and the CAD drawings look good so far

Phil

yah, but the viper is way over due.  moebius keeps pushing the release date back. at this point I think that they are fibbing about weather or not it will come out at all.  with some of the problems I have had with them,  I think  that they are not to be trusted.

1/32 or 1/24  Lunar Lander.  Only in 1/48 and 1/72 which is too small for something as cool as this.

Mercury, Gemini and Apollo have all been issued in large scales except for the LEM.

stikpusher

Phil_H

p51mustang

any spacecraft from the Buck Rogers T.V. series from the late 1970's

The Buck Rogers Starfighter and Draconian Marauder from this series was kitted by Monogram back in the day. If I recall correctly, the Starfighter was reboxed (and re-released?) by Tsukuda in Japan.

I had both of those kits. Wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better than the Cylon Raider and Colonial Viper kits of a couple years before.

I still have my Draconian Marauder I built many, many years ago. My 8 yr old got a hold of it and a few parts have separated, but it is still complete. I've always wanted to obtain another kit to build it better (and paint it too!). Bonus points if you can identify other kits in this shot.

Rob Gronovius

stikpusher

Phil_H

p51mustang

any spacecraft from the Buck Rogers T.V. series from the late 1970's

The Buck Rogers Starfighter and Draconian Marauder from this series was kitted by Monogram back in the day. If I recall correctly, the Starfighter was reboxed (and re-released?) by Tsukuda in Japan.

I had both of those kits. Wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better than the Cylon Raider and Colonial Viper kits of a couple years before.

I still have my Draconian Marauder I built many, many years ago. My 8 yr old got a hold of it and a few parts have separated, but it is still complete. I've always wanted to obtain another kit to build it better (and paint it too!). Bonus points if you can identify other kits in this shot.

 

I recognize a number of 1970s era models including Maximilian the  Disney Robot from "The Black Hole" movie , an Estes rocket ( Tie Fighter) at least one of the Maschinen Kruger series kits, a UFO re-issue...perhaps the alien head was molded in green plastic like the kit I had..

Sprue-ce Goose

Don't recognize the 4 legged or white / red bipedal model.

The red and white fella behind Maximillian is an Orgroid (from Orguss, a series which was contemporary to Macross) kitted by either Imai or Arii. There's a Macross gun pod lower left, between the front feet of the walker, which is (originally) a Tequila Gunner from Dougram (later reboxed by Revell in their "Robotech" kit line).

If I recall correctly, the Revell Robotech line preceded the TV series by a short time.

Sharp-eyed viewers may see the Orgroid appear for a moment as an "Easter-egg" in one of the episodes of Macross/Robotech...

Hmm, Bolos run from 150 to 32,000tonnes, which would be tricky on a shelf, those later Marks having 20cm hellbores for point-defense . . .

I had a stack of sketches for the Hammer's Slammers AFV.  This started simple enough, a panzer and APC, but, you then need the SPG, jeeps, supply trucks, the occasional captured missile and calliope battery . . .

Such is life.  More wishes than fishes.

stikpusher

Star Wars- Rebel Blockade Runner, Super Star Destroyer, Mon Calamari Cruiser, TIE Bomber...

all of these have been done, in various scales, but only in Resin. I too would like to see these done as injected molded kits.

Klik

stikpusher

Star Wars- Rebel Blockade Runner, Super Star Destroyer, Mon Calamari Cruiser, TIE Bomber...

I would love to see an injection TIE Bomber. I don't even know if the resin one is still around. But I can't see any of these coming along now. When the next movies are released we will see a flurry of new kits and maybe some re leases of the old ones.

Yes, lucasfilm finally has their merchandising for the model area down pat. They did much better with that on the second trilogy than on the first.

Yes, an ancient MPC Snow Speeder. The UFO is molded in glow-in-the-dark plastic and was a Lindberg issue a long time ago. I painted it Pactra Gun Metal (strange how I remember that). The Mecha are all Revell Robotech issues of various Japanese kits. The deepsea diver-looking kit was called Aqualo but it's real name was Mackeral. The red/white one was called Nebo (real name is Orguss). The 4-legged walker was called Commando and wore no underwear (real name Tequila Gunner; too much tequila=no underwear).

The bladeless helicopter (they broke off in storage) behind the UFO was part of the Robotech line called "Airborne Attacker" (real name Maverick) and came with a humanoid-looking robot that it carried into combat by the shoulders.

I loved those kits and I built just about everyone of the Robotech kits while in college in the mid 1980s. I've obtained several replacement kits over the years, but still have the remnants of many.

stikpusher

Yes, lucasfilm finally has their merchandising for the model area down pat. They did much better with that on the second trilogy than on the first.

You've got to look at this from the times in which the movie was made. When Star Wars came out in 1977, about the only mainstream sci-fi models from pop culture were Aurora kits and the AMT Star Trek TOS kits. MPC was one of the bigger American model companies and had done Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, the Black Hole and similar kits. They gave us a Millenium Falcon, X-Wing, TIE Advance, Vader and the two droids. A pretty comprehensive line compared to even the TOS kits. Quality was probably in line with other sci-fi models from the time. Modelers of the 1970s were not sticklers for detail that we became in the 90s.

Empire gave us a few more (snowspeeder, star destroyer, AT-AT) and ROTJ gave us a bunch of reissues and snap kits but nothing to really knock out of the ballpark unless you count the speeder bike. MPC was dying as a company by then. Like the movie, the kits were aimed at the kiddies. MPC just wasn't a quality company and they made kits of studio models that were cobbled together from hundreds of other kits.

They probably didn't expect Episode 4 to be as big a hit and launch a movie empire.

Very true. But I thought that the Star Trek line of that day was pretty reasonable- Enterprise, Romulan Bird of Prey, Klingon D7 cruiser, Galileo shuttle, the starbase/space station, Enterprise Bridge, and a few other odds & ends like the phaser/tricorder set, etc. And of course they covered the first couple of Star Trek movies vessels pretty well.

Funny, I was watching 'Plan Nine From Outer Space' over the weekend and the saucers used were the same old 'flying saucer' kit Rob has there painted bright silver. I don't want to even know how many times that kit has been reissued.

And even more funny, of those Trek kits SP listed most of them came out AFTER the show had been canceled. I think the Enterprise and Klingon battlewagon were the only two released during the series run.

I'd love to see a late model Bolo but I can't really comprehend what such a machine would look like. I've looked at paintings on the web but most don't seem to capture the look in my imagination. I see them as sorta a battleship on treads (the old term landship seems to really fit) but the multiple tread systems are kinda hard for me to see how that would look, maybe a number of tread runs all across the lower hull?

I'd tossed around the idea of scratching a 'Hammer's Slammers' blower tank or combat car. Those I've seen some really good renderings on the internet. Would I think be a matter of getting the lower hull with the fans and skirts right.

The shuttle came out during the show's run because AMT built it and got rights to make the kit as well.

I know everyone is pinning for a new kit of all the cool 70's and 80's sci-fi stuff, but what about an MST3K satellite of love?  In 1/350 scale with figures!  Or some figures from the movie "Heavy Metal". - a real corvette spaceship anyone?  Hey if they made the spinner from "Blade Runner". Anything is possible

stikpusher

Very true. But I thought that the Star Trek line of that day was pretty reasonable- Enterprise, Romulan Bird of Prey, Klingon D7 cruiser, Galileo shuttle, the starbase/space station, Enterprise Bridge, and a few other odds & ends like the phaser/tricorder set, etc. And of course they covered the first couple of Star Trek movies vessels pretty well.

The full size Galileo shuttlecraft built by AMT was just in the news, having been completely restored and is now on display at a NASA facility in Texas.

That got me to wonder, we all know the AMT model kit version is riff with inaccuracies, the rear being the most egregious. 

Has ANYONE made an ACCURATE Galileo shuttle actually based on the actual prop ???

Ahhhh, thanks for the correction- I forgot about the AMT connection with the shuttlecraft. A friend of mine told me Polar Lights is doing a new more accurate version of the shuttle but I couldn't find anything on a web search.

There was a resin kit of Joel and the bots years ago, the price is probably sky high by now. Don't recall any kit of 'The Satellite of Love' though- it would make a pretty darn cool model.  

Irish3335

Hey if they made the spinner from "Blade Runner". Anything is possible

The billboard dirigibles, and the restaurant "junk" from Blade Runner would be cool.

Hmm, a wealth of cool potential kits from "Fifth Element"--hover cabs & PD cars, Flostin Paradise, etc.

Resin Ranger made one waaayyy back when. www.starshipmodeler.com/.../pre_rr_gal.htm

The problem with the accuracy issue is that the interior would not fit inside the exterior. The shuttle interior was a separate set for filming and is much larger than the actual shuttle prop.

There was once a resin replacement rear hull, maybe by SMT Models? to correct the AMT kit.

Polar lights IS doing an all new shuttle craft kit. It should be out in 2014.

They are trying to make it as accurate as possible, I think it will be a hybrid of the filming mockup and

the SPX model. As of now I don't think they have any plans for an interior but I could be wrong.

The old AMT shuttle kit came out after the show was off the air, 1974 I think.

The AMT/Desilu deal was AMT got the license to sell the USS Enterprise kit in exchange for building

the Shuttle exterior filming mockup. They then got the license for the Klingon battle cruiser in exchange for building the 2 filming models of it.

I assume that all the kits after those were cash deals, Except for the Spock/Snakes kit. That one has an

interesting history behind it also.

I'd like to see...

TIE Bomber-Star Wars

USS Discovery-2001/2010

Leonov-2010

Sulaco-Aliens

Oh Heavy Metal and The Fifth Element (one could argue the latter is a live action rehash of the first) are full of Sci Fi models I would love to build- Harry Canyon's or Corbin Dallas's Taxi's... The Mengaloid fighters... Edsel and Zeke's spaceship... the Earth to Floston Paradise transport...

The helicopter and drones from'Oblivion' would make some excellant sci-fi kits!

Many of the kits listed in this thread _are_ or soon will be available, or re-released.  I saw the Jetson's car in the list.  It's soon to be re-re-released, as well as several different LEM kits and other space craft, real or imagined.  Yeah, there are obviously some kits that haven't made it yet, the Red Dwarf first series Bug comes to mind, as well as Spaceman Spiff and his 'space car'.  I saw one Jimmy Flintstone resin kit of Spaceman Spiff, but that kit is long out of production.  I remain optimistic, though, and keep checking my favorite TV- and Science-fiction web store here:

http://www.culttvmanshop.com/

One cool thing Steve listed on his 'blog, but doesn't have on his site was the LEM training vehicle.  It's 1/48 scale, IIRC, and it's a PE and resin kit.  I have one on order.  It looks like it'll take some detailing work to make it real nice, but should be a great start.

Gene Beaird,

Pearland, Texas

I've always wanted them to make the Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon models. Along with Capt. Proton's ship from Star Trek Voyager ;)

Also the Vulture from  the short lived tv show Salvage 1

Here's another forgotten one - any one of the ST-TNG shuttles.

They did do the Runabout, about the only shuttle in TNG that had an episode almost entirely on a shuttle trip. DS9 used it extensively and despite the name, it was really just a shuttle.

wouldn't those cars be in the auto section?

I just noticed on Ebay the two large ships from Stargate, Promethius and I cant remember the other ones name

www.ebay.co.uk/.../151089207505

www.ebay.co.uk/.../151089207585

Phil

I want to build ALL the aircraft from "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" I mean come on, a WWII era flying Aircraft Carrier, sleek looking amphibious  planes and an amphibious P-40. So cool......

Also, the movie "Iron Sky" has some modeling potential. 

Iron Sky is absolutely hilarious! That's the one with the n**** living on a giant swastika-shaped moon base, right?

P mitch

I just noticed on Ebay the two large ships from Stargate, Promethius and I cant remember the other ones name

Prometheus and Daedalus - for anime fans, coincidentally the names of the "ship arms" of Macross's TV-version SDF-1. Prometheus was an aircraft carrier and Daedalus was an amphibious landing ship.  

Rob Gronovius

They did do the Runabout, about the only shuttle in TNG that had an episode almost entirely on a shuttle trip. DS9 used it extensively and despite the name, it was really just a shuttle.

I have the runabout, it's waiting for a time when I have the ability and inclination to add at least a partial interior, and perhaps some basic lighting to it.

Some possible reasons our favorite scifi subjects are not modeled.

Lack of widespread interest in a particular movie/TV show.

Difficult to design-tooling expense. Especially if you try to remain true to the original. Look at the flak Polar Lights has taken on the Big E. Lines vs no lines!

Licensing fees. Not to mention having to get the final design OK'd before you go into production.

All of the above.

I want THIS one...

SchattenSpartan

Iron Sky is absolutely hilarious! That's the one with the n**** living on a giant swastika-shaped moon base, right?

That is correct, Clemens. Ya gotta love their spacesuits:  trenchcoats with gasmasks.  And they're drivin around on motorcycles with sidecars. But those ships, shaped like blimps, but in space. Iron Sky is one of my favorite accidental Netflix finds. 

For the David weber Honor Harrington fans, according to his website, there is a movie in the works covering the time of the second book, "the Honor of the Queen".  Could be that models are coming, but I understand from the post that the ship design will have to change somewhat to work on the big screen.  

I know there was a short run kit of it, but I would really like to see an injection Gunstar from "The Last Starfighter".  Cools ship design, and honored in Babylon 5 with the design of the Starfury.  

wolfhammer1

For the David weber Honor Harrington fans, according to his website, there is a movie in the works covering the time of the second book, "the Honor of the Queen".  Could be that models are coming, but I understand from the post that the ship design will have to change somewhat to work on the big screen.  

I know there was a short run kit of it, but I would really like to see an injection Gunstar from "The Last Starfighter".  Cools ship design, and honored in Babylon 5 with the design of the Starfury.  

Ah cool, I'm not banking on the movie to be very good assuming it makes it way out of production considering Sillywood's habit of ruining good books but still one can hope! Thanks for the head's up. 

I have the resin Gunstar, love that movie! It set me back a little over a hundred US dollars, I have to admit you get what you paid for in materials though, the thing is a honkin' big hunk of resin. Be careful to brace your legs when you pick it up or you might throw out your back! I'm a little annoyed that if you want to light it you'd have to do a good bit of drilling and carving this solid brick. 

Great Thread Gang!

My list for kits in plastic:

1) Of course Disney Nautilus in 1/72 or 1/96 scale

2) Discovery 2001 (Non resin, that one garage kit was a bear to put together!)

3) Starship Trooper Model of Roger Young

4) That crazy ship from Battle Beyond the Galaxy, which was used several times in other movies.

www.imdb.com/.../tt0080421

5) Plastic model of Firefly (Serenity) in 1/72 scale.

6) USS Kelvin from Abrams-Trek

7) Rebel Blockade Runner (SW:IV)

8) Ship from the movie Prometheus (VERY COOL!)

9) 1/700 Prometheus and Dadelus from Robotech Cartoon.

10) Ship from Event Horizon (Space Coast Guard Cutter)

11) A vinyl or resin or plastic kit of the Shrike figure from the Hyperion books.

12) A Tardis control room done like the Enterprise bridge kit.

13) Gunstar from last starfighter.

14) Ship from the show Jason of Star Command (Show was terrible, ship was cool).

I know some may groan at my choices, esp the ship from Battle Beyond the Stars (It looked very female if you look at it head on....)

With sci-fi, the more the better. How cool would it be to park a Viper next to a Gunstar, next to an X-wing, near the 80's buck roger ship! Revel in your 70's child hood!!!

TW

I'd love to see a kit of the rovers from "Moon". Also, any of vehicles from "District 9", even if that's set in the near future.

Chris

Oh yeah- 'Battle Beyond the Stars'! What was the ship's name- Nell I think.

John Boy puts together the Seven Samurai to kick John Saxon's butt!

When you see 'Roger Corman' in the credits you know it's a good movie!!!

The helicopters from Avatar in plastic.

Yep, those helos would be awesome in plastic (I'd prefer them in 1/48)

Gerry

I've always wanted them to make the Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon models. Along with Capt. Proton's ship from Star Trek Voyager ;)

The Flash Gordon kits EXIST,

They are resin models from Herb Deeks, Monsters In Motion HAS them, or did last time I checked their webpage. But if you want them you better HUSTLE because Herb Deeks will not reissue them.

BTW There are 3 kits, I have all of them

1. Zarkov's Rocket

2. Ming's Rocket

3. Martian Strato-sled

I know this because he told me personally. I meet Mr Deek's at the National Narrow Gauge Convention where I had a nice chat with him. He said the market just doesn't support such rarities anymore so he will in all likelihood not be reissuing the Flash Gordon/Space Patrol/Zombies of the Stratosphere kits. 

PS he told why WHY the Buck Rogers serial rockets were never issued as kits.

Apparently with the Flash Gordon serial rockets, the rights are still owned by Universal Pictures and he was able to get permission to issue the models, however the Buck Rogers serial is owned outright by King Features, and they have been very protective of those rights and Herb couldn't get permission to do them.

Seams really stupid to me. these are 60 year old serials that very few people remember, issueing model kits might revitalize interest in the DVDs, hence putting some $ in King Features pockets, but as we all know logic can be construed by lawyers as a four letter word not to mentioned in polite society.

I will repeat in here again, quite alot of the models being requested here already exist, in resin or soft vinyl.

My original post was to ponder why certain sci-fi craft have NEVER EVER been issued, in ANY form, not in styrene, resin, vinyl, or carved blocks of wood.

Hence the Albatross, Buck Rogers serial rocketships, etc.

Herb Deeks told me part of the reason is that sometimes a kit can be so obscure that there simply is no demand beyond a handfull (like 10) modelers so its just not worth it to do all the work to produce and then try to market a resin or vinyl kit. He said its ALOT of work to produce and then market even a small run of kits.

I plan to do my own Buck Rogers serial ships now, probably in styrene/wood. I have been pondering the idea of a limited run of resin models for my own use but I have no experience doing such and might  risk running afoul of the logic-less lawyer patrol of Killer King (Features) 

I would like to see the panzers and combat cars from David Drake's Hammers Slammers

What I would like to see is larger and more detailed " Perry Rohdan " Kits .there were about ten mentioned in the books

Well, here are  ones that may be obvious given the fact that this thread started with a Verne ship: the Nautilus 1 & 2 from Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, the balloon "Jupiter" from Five Weeks In A Balloon or the "Columbia" From The Earth To The Moon 1958 movie.

Not sure if there wasn't a model of the "Conquest of Space" Mars winged lander and the 'Wheel" space station or not.

Also comes to mind were aircraft from the 1936 movie "Things to Come"  by H.G. Wells. Then we have the Martian sand ships & earth vehicles from the 1979 mini-series "The Martian Chronicles" (even though it was a bad adaptation).

More recent are the Spectre SF-2 combat sub/fighter & the aqua shuttles ( not the Deep Sea Truck) from seaQuest DSV.

Just a few off the top of my head!

Tentacles

Well, here are  ones that may be obvious given the fact that this thread started with a Verne ship: the Nautilus 1 & 2 from Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, the balloon "Jupiter" from Five Weeks In A Balloon or the "Columbia" From The Earth To The Moon 1958 movie.

Not sure if there wasn't a model of the "Conquest of Space" Mars winged lander and the 'Wheel" space station or not.

Also comes to mind were aircraft from the 1936 movie "Things to Come"  by H.G. Wells. Then we have the Martian sand ships & earth vehicles from the 1979 mini-series "The Martian Chronicles" (even though it was a bad adaptation).

More recent are the Spectre SF-2 combat sub/fighter & the aqua shuttles ( not the Deep Sea Truck) from seaQuest DSV.

Just a few off the top of my head!

I have seen a resin model of the Gyro-helicopter from 'Things To Come', never seen anything from 'Conquest of Space" I tried watching that movie recently, my god it was a badly acted movie.

Believe it or not I actually have seen the Nautilus' from that TV movie, they were being produced by a company in the Philippines that makes custom wood aircraft replica miniatures and apparently any miniature your heart desires...for a price...and by special order of course.

I found on their advertisement on Ebay one of the oddest miniatures ever and would make a good one for this list if AMT or Polar Lights is reading...Captain Proton's Rocketship from "Star Trek Voyager"

I'd like to see some model kits from the movie Sky Captain although it bombed at the box office still those planes with the flapping wings would be great in 1/72 scale or even in 1/48 scale and how about some of the robots there were sever types in the storage area on Sky Captains headquarters along with the attacking robots. and how about a model of the " flying aircraft carriers " and even a model of the space ark would be nice too. and yes I'll take an Albatross model too.   Karl

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mach71

2001 space pod

2001 Aries 1b

Planet of the Apes Liberty 1

In real space, sort of:

X-20

Soviet lunar lander

MOL

t's out there: http://www.starshipmodeler.com/2001/rc_pre_ccpod.htm 

Also in 1/32: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2001-Space-Odyssey-EVA-Pod-by-Atomic-City-1-32-Scale-2-25-inches-diameter-/281187693508?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item417817b3c4

Agreed, In fact I have some of those in resin.

I think the OP was about injection molded mass market

kits.

Yes, there seems to be less tie ins nowadays between mainstream injection molded kits and movie or TV shows than there was say 20 years ago or more. Only the master mechandisers such as Lucasfilm still doing much of it.

I'd like to see models of the peace bombers from " Things to Come " those are impressive aircraft, also some of those tractor like tunneling machines would also be interesting models.   Karl

I wonder if part of the reason there are fewer models is that there are fewer models used in the movie industry.  If you think back, for the original Star Wars and Star trek, those were real 3-D models that were filmed and the model companies could get access to and measure.  Now with all of the CGI, (which are really cool, by the way) model companies have to design the model from a computer generated image, which may not have the detail needed.  

Interesting point.  The earliest concept along those lines was the seaQuest DSV submarine, a totally CGI designed vehicle along with the other support vehicles from 1994. Monogram Models did a decent job taking CGI models and making "real" kits from them. If anything, CGI designed stuff would be an asset since a transfer to computer guided injection mold shaping equipment would be easier. However, REAL filming models IMHO cannot be replaced for a sense of realism. The recent sci-fi movie MOON had some impressive model work and I enjoyed that kind of effects work. My 2 cents worth.

mach71

Agreed, In fact I have some of those in resin.

I think the OP was about injection molded mass market

kits.

Actually I was referring to ANY format, lots mentioned here have been done in some form, resin, vinyl, etc

But there are some that have never been done at all, in any format, that was what I was getting at, the Buck Rogers movie serial rockets for example, and the Albatross from Master of the World.

While some listed here  HAVE been done in some format, they are often way too expensive for most mortals, so even though NO, I was originally referring to all formats, YES it would be great to see alot of these done is styrene or similarly more affordable manner.

starduster

I'd like to see models of the peace bombers from " Things to Come " those are impressive aircraft, also some of those tractor like tunneling machines would also be interesting models.   Karl

I was just thinking of those, they are also great examples of stuff never done in any format I can remember, I know the gyro-copter from the movie and the Space cannon, have been modeled in resin, the Flying Wings and the Drilling Machines have never been done.

I have often pondered building a flying RC version of the bomber... be impressive. 

So, the Five Weeks In A Balloon vessel and Earth To Moon ship have been modeled before? Hmmm...

Conquest of Space... Photos anyone?

Speaking of vehicles that were only CG - what about the various rocket ships and killer robots from The Incredibles?  Also the little motor home they flew in the rocket ship to get to the fight.  

@ Tentacles

Not to my knowledge, so they would be good candidates for this thread. I know the Cavorite Sphere has been modeled, but thats HG Wells not J. Verne.

Some of the Conquest stuff has been modeled, sort of, in the various 50's era rocket models, Glencoe did some of the Von Braun models from that era, but the Mars landing wing would be a fun one to build.

Here's a couple:

Disney's Earth Star Voyager

Galisphere from Space Patrol

The police cruiser from "Lilo and Stich" would be fun to do. Especially "the red one"!

I am wondering if anyone will come out with a model of that neat little jet copter from Oblivion. The drones would be neat too...

One more I wish wish wish I could find, the Star of David spaceships from Mel Brooks 'History of the World Part 1' 

" See: JEWS IN SPACE SPACE SPACE space"

Someone somewhere HAS to have made a garage resin kit this beauty!

AHHHHH! I FOUND IT!!!!! CREDIT CARD WHERE ART THOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

starshipmodeler.biz/.../starship-of-david.cfm

I was looking at the search page where I got the above pic and FOUND it!!!

Look for a building log once I get around to this one.

I'm not sure if this has been covered, but what about the transportation cruiser in the Hunger Games? How popular right now, you would think somebody would have been ready for that one.

What about GORT from The Day the Earth Stood Still with the saucer next to him.

railroader

Any of the spacecraft from Spaceballs. A 3 foot long minimum Spaceball One would be neat

http://resinilluminati.com/showthread.php?t=14674

The Space Winnebago is out there, see link above, I am tempted to get that one.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Spaceballs-one-Model-Kit-spaceship-23-long-prop-/321266863036?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item4accff4bbc

Lookie lookie what I found on Ebay

What about imaginated scratch-builds of ships from novels not yet appearing in a film?  Like...  Hober Mallow's ship the Far Star, from Asimov's Foundation series...  base it on descriptions from the books...  could be fun.

Another one I thought of...

The Golden Compass Magesterium Sky Ferry:

Newtothis

What about imaginated scratch-builds of ships from novels not yet appearing in a film?  Like...  Hober Mallow's ship the Far Star, from Asimov's Foundation series...  base it on descriptions from the books...  could be fun.

Hmmmm, interesting idea there, I have thought about trying to scratchbuild something to represent Dominic Flandry's 'Hooligan'. 

I am currently scrounging parts to bash into a SA-2 Samson helo from Avatar. Their Scorpion Gunship, Dragon and Valkyrie would be cool too.

Anybody remember the show "Space: Above and Beyond"? I'd like to see a Hammerhead and the Saratoga. Even the troop transport would be cool.

Oh, and how about the ship from Pigs in Space, just kidding. (or am I?)

NucMedTech

Anybody remember the show "Space: Above and Beyond"? I'd like to see a Hammerhead and the Saratoga. Even the troop transport would be cool.

[http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/HammerheadFighterCatalogPage.htm] Fantastic Plastic has Hammerhead, in stock, retail price: $75.00 + shipping. Have fun! 

Scratch another model off my Wish-list, I just received a garage resin kit bought of Ebay for one of the few Trek ships I have always wanted:

1/1000 scale so it will be same scale as my NX01 Refit by Polar Lights, looks pretty good quality. Kit was from Jupiter Station. Building log to follow.

Speaking of which

Bish

stikpusher

Star Wars- Rebel Blockade Runner, Super Star Destroyer, Mon Calamari Cruiser, TIE Bomber...

I would love to see an injection TIE Bomber. I don't even know if the resin one is still around. But I can't see any of these coming along now. When the next movies are released we will see a flurry of new kits and maybe some re leases of the old ones.

I finally got hold of a TIE Bomber a few weeks back. Its a resin kit, but it looks very nice and is in 72nd scale.

Space: Above and Beyond. Only one season, but I liked it.

Ships from the "Wing Commander" games. Not the movie.

So with all of these wish lists of kits and the new 3D technology, how long before we send our blueprint request to a company and get our most off the wall kit made?  Would love to do some Star Wars large scale clone wars with clones vs droids - be awesome in 1/72 scale

Republic Gunship! ( I know Revell Germany already did one, but it is quite simplified). From the original trilogy: Rebel Blockade Runner/Tantive IV, TIE Bomber, Rebel Transport, Super Star Destroyer, Mon Calimari Cruiser (It's a trap!!!) ;-)

Oh yeah, I STILL want my UFO Interceptor!

sorry bashmonkey,  it still looks like a water bottle with a golf ball on it,  but i would like to see a pic of it along side the nx 01 for a look at the size difference.

@stik, most ( if not all) of the Star Wars kits you listed ( Blockade runner, Rebel transport, Executor, Mon Cal, etc.) have been done in Resin, but not injected. I've seen them listed on starship modeler, but their mostly always out of stock. The Executor was a limited- run kit, if I recall, that was 4ft long when finished!

Would be nice for these to be made as an affordable injection- molded kit, though.

Klik

Since you guys are talking about Star Wars already, is there any large kit of an Imperial Star Destroyer? I know some company made a resin kit (which looks awesome IMO), but they only produced 100 of them and they (and all the copies that were made) seem to be impossible to get...

SS, MPC did a Star Destroyer kit after Empire Strikes Back, and re issued it in a new boxing for Return of the Jedi. It was around a foot or so long when built. It was typical of their other Star Wars kits of that era.

Klik, I would sure prefer injection molded from a mainstream model company. Then it would be far more likely to be in my price range. Resin kits almost always are except on clearance or secondhand

Thanks Stik! I'll have to look into that MPC kit.

On the other hand, I just found the big resin kit I mentioned on evilbay. One of the 100 original ones too! I can't order something that expensive (520 bucks + shipping and taxes), at least not this month (my modelling budget for April is almost spent already) and the kit is only up untill tomorrow. My LHS on the other hand buys stuff on ebay for their regular customers (which I am), so maybe I can talk the owner into ordering it for me...

That monster is a 74cm x 43cm resin model btw (weighting 8 pounds). It would eat up my modelling budget of 2 and a half months, but I think it's worth it (those kits were damn rare already when they were still in production and the situation is only going to get worse)

ap me

sorry bashmonkey,  it still looks like a water bottle with a golf ball on it,  but i would like to see a pic of it along side the nx 01 for a look at the size difference.

I have that one,  I was not impressed with it, I might even finish it .  dry fir it all,  the pieces do not fit well.  my kit bash fleet is about 20 ships this far, with another one in the yards

SchattenSpartan

Thanks Stik! I'll have to look into that MPC kit.

That MPC kit isn't to bad, I have seen them built up really nicely. I think I still have the one I built but never finished some where. I have been on a mission to replace all the Star Wars kits I built years ago, I think that's the only one I haven't re bought, not to sure I will bother, unless one comes up on e-bay at a decent price. I did get the AT-AT last week again though.

I would warn you against getting one of the original MPC boxings of old Star Wars kits. The old, original kits' plastic is often very brittle years later. I found some of my old built kits from the 70s still in boxes. Although they looked pristine, the pieces cracked when I tried to move them.

Rob Gronovius

I would warn you against getting one of the original MPC boxings of old Star Wars kits. The old, original kits' plastic is often very brittle years later. I found some of my old built kits from the 70s still in boxes. Although they looked pristine, the pieces cracked when I tried to move them.

Now I don't feel so sorry to have passed them up.

That's some good info to have. Thanks, Rob!

BashMonkey - I look forward to your build with that ship. Never done one. I suppose I'll have to or my fleet isn't complete.

Rob Gronovius

I would warn you against getting one of the original MPC boxings of old Star Wars kits. The old, original kits' plastic is often very brittle years later. I found some of my old built kits from the 70s still in boxes. Although they looked pristine, the pieces cracked when I tried to move them.

Ok, that's not good. Note to self, handle with care. I am not sure how old mine are, so I will have to be careful just in case.

Older MPC kits had a bone colored plastic. Newer ones are a more gray color because that's what AMT/Ertl used.

Ok, I am sure mine are grey, but I will check. I know the AT-AT is the Return of the Jedi boxing. The one I think I will be concerned about in darths TIE. I will have to have a look.

And thanks again, fore warned is fore armed as they say.

I had the original MPC 1977(?) issue Darth Vader Tie in my collection for many many years. It was molded in Gray. The plastic in that was rock solid. Unfortunately my building skills then were not and it was beyond salvage. I finally threw it away, along with many of my other sci fi salvage hopefuls, before my last move as part of my load lightening. But the plastic was not brittle at all. The X-wing was in an off white plastic and did not last nearly as long. Nor did Artoo...

Rob Gronovius

Older MPC kits had a bone colored plastic. Newer ones are a more gray color because that's what AMT/Ertl used.

Well then I am definitely relieved as the kits I didn't buy for $5 each at the swap meet were the same bone white kits I built in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...........

Hmmm, just picked up the DVD of 'Battle Beyond the Stars' and wondering did anyone ever do 'Nell' from this movie? Yes thanks Roger Corman and James Cameron for giving us a spacecraft with.. um.. 'boobs'...