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Dave Ruther’s X-Wing

Published on January 26th, 2012 in Star Wars

  I thought I’d send you some photos of a few of the many models I have built over the years in case you wanted to show them on your site. All of the models featured here are entirely scratch built.   The X-Wing from Star Wars is Mainly plastic card and Perspex with kit

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Thomas Militello’s Klingon Bird of Prey

 

Tony Hardy’s Invaders UFO

Published on January 22nd, 2012 in Sci-Fi TV
 
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David Merriman’s 57″ Seaview – Part 1B

Published on January 22nd, 2012 in Sci-Fi TV

Back to the Introduction Previous Page The stern of the completed fifty-seven inch long DeBoer Hull SEAVIEW kit. Note the two fixed horizontal vanes in the nozzle of each propulsion tube – they are angled to deflect the jet flow upwards. This needed to counter the ‘nose down’ moment produced by the shape of the

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David Merriman’s 57″ Seaview – Part 1A

Published on January 22nd, 2012 in Sci-Fi TV

Start with the Introduction The kit arrived to our door undamaged and complete with a booklet of instructions – which, I promptly tossed into a dark corner of the shop, never to be consulted. Hey… I have my pride! Reference material?!  We need no stink’n ‘reference’ material!… I had the seventeen foot miniature in my

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David Merriman’s Building the 57″ Seaview Introduction

Published on January 22nd, 2012 in Sci-Fi TV

This article was serialized on the CultTVman site back in 2002, long before the big 39″ Seaview was produced by Moebius.   Contents Introduction – read below Part 1 – The Hull Standard David Merriman Disclaimer: Some people don’t like reading David Merrriman’s articles. If you are one of them, try visiting a different page.

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Dave Ruther’s Thunderbirds Elevator Car part 2

Published on January 21st, 2012 in Sci-Fi TV

Start with part 1 The cabin proved to be a difficult one. To build this would have meant building up a wooden former and then vacuum forming the cabin out of clear plastic sheet. However, it was Christmas and I noticed that one of our tree decorations was exactly the right size. On removing the

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Aurora’s Seaview reissue from Polar Lights review by Brian Ludden

Review from 2002 Parts: 19 White, 2 clear Decals: None Scale: Hard to tell; the scale appeared to have changed during the TV show run. I’m calling it 1/350 to keep in scale with a popular submarine and ship modeling scale, although this would make it a bit small actually. It’s probably closer to 1/500

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Bandai Refit Enterprise First Look by Martin Burkey

from 2003: Bandai Refit Enterprise 1/850 lighted snap kit available through many online hobby shops expect to pay $90.00 from domestic sources review by Martin Burkey Got my new Bandai Enterprise a couple of days ago from Hobbylink Japan. It’s an impressive piece of work. I’ve not started assembling yet, but some observations: 1. Is

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Bob Burns, Kogar and Aurora Models!

Published on January 21st, 2012 in Aurora

I was hired for a big toy show in LA to represent Aurora kits. The King Kong kit was just being released so I sort of played Kong. I think that the kids enjoyed the gorilla more than anyone. The great thing about this is they gave me all the Monster kits before they were

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