Even thirty years later, Hollywood was still stuck on the single stage ship when depicting space travel.
Happily the Friede has actually flown since,several times.
A number ofmodel kitsof the BTA fighter are available, and its also apopular designfor hobbyist CGI modellers.
But if you like art deco (which I do), this is bound to be a favourite.
There doesnt seem to be a huge amount available in terms of replicas and kits.
The nine-foot miniature weighed approximately 270 pounds, with a steel structure and largely custom-moulded detailing.
The internal steel spine was modular, to allow for the separation of sections required in the script.
…Matthew [Gratzner] actually did the final design.
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As for replicas and toys, how about the ship inLego?
There are hero ships in regular TV shows that dont have this kind of flexibility or painstaking detail.
Yet the Orion drew on NASAs tentative space-shuttle plans just as the vipers drew (heavily!)
So lets not be throwing stones.
Oddly enough, this vessel deserves the name Y-wing far more than the one inStar Wars.
The prop was originally made as silver-painted wood, but later recast in fibre-glass with a steel framework.
The full-size prop was sold at a car auction in LA in 1985 and several times thereafter.
It was last known to be in the possession of a memorabilia collector in the early nineties.
The Roddenberry connection is no surprise, since the show did direct parodies of several specificStar Trekepisodes.
Trying to get that to have some scale was difficult.
It was big and shiny and it had blue-spill problems.
It was probably two and a half feet in diameter.
65: The TARDIS Doctor Who(UK TV, 1963-???
I didnt know anything about the show when they called me.
The [TARDIS interior] was just a whole collection of different architectural styles.
And so I started coming up with these concepts and they just all loved them.
The further I went, the more they liked it!
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you’ve got the option to find out much more about the history of the on-set practical TARDIShere.
And some full-size fibre-class reconstructionshere.
Why is this not higher in the list?
Much as I loveDoctor Whoand the TARDIS, its not really much of a looker, is it?
CGI enthusiasts looking for a shortcut or unimpressed with open-source versions can buy amesh of the shipat Turbosquid.
So that was the key to having a Fireball 2 that could land and leave the mothership in orbit.
It was all based on, common sense and the knowledge we had at the time.
Are these promontories weapons or sensors.
For a NASA-style vehicle, it looks armed to the teeth!
The venerable Richard Yuricich shot the miniatures for Mass Illusions at Pinewood, England .
We wanted to create two very different aesthetics [between the Lewis & Clark and the Event Horizon].
Its got the classic space shuttle-based design, very workaday.
That was enjoyable doing, because you had to make an environment that works for that.
It was a rescue sequence set on an oil-drilling asteroid.
They had to go and rescue a guy that was trapped there.
We had to doEvent Horizonquite quickly.
Paul Anderson is a brilliant director and we all just went for it, really.
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If you have a Lewis & Clark mesh, get in touch and Ill include it here.
For anyone who loves the NASA aesthetic, this is a pin-up ship.
No kits, no models.
A shame, as it would be a good source for kit-bashing by itself!
Even the tonality of the greens is pure late-50s, early-60s.
The Planet Express was justmadefor kids to whoosh around the room!
Theres abeautiful Skyhook models kitavailable of the ship, and Moore Collectibles also have alovely replicato offer.
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