Orangesherbert Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Bucks starfighter only came second to an X-wing in my eyes. Lovely ship. And the 2 seater wasn't half bad either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 1, 2017 Author Share Posted August 1, 2017 There's even a Quad! Wider hull and four canopy "sections". Every time this thread pops back up, I get the urge to spend money I haven't got Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Baker Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 (edited) The Buck Rogers Thunderfighter is one of my favorite designs- compact and advanced, but still hunkered down and mean looking. It stared off as a sketch for Star Wars (appears in the Chronicles Book)- Then almost became the Battlestar Galactica Viper before finding a home on Buck Rogers. Edited August 1, 2017 by Richard Baker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 1, 2017 Author Share Posted August 1, 2017 It's amazing that over 30 years later I'm still learning stuff about shows I used to watch. How did it make the transition from Star Wars to Duck Dodgers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thud4444 Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 (edited) 5 hours ago, Mike said: It's amazing that over 30 years later I'm still learning stuff about shows I used to watch. How did it make the transition from Star Wars to Duck Dodgers? That's easy! John Dykstra and Ralph McQuarrie worked on all three projects. There was alot of recycling before the invention of the internet and home video. Like I posted earlier, the name Viper came from the Rogers fighter because the twin lasers looked like fangs. Btw, the Thunder almost made it back in to Star Wars again. There where talks about putting the Howlrunner into one of the new movies or TV shows. It's a Imperial fighter that was built by Incom to give the Empire an X-Wing type fighter in the EU. No doubting its relationship to the older design. Edited August 1, 2017 by Thud4444 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thud4444 Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Mike, when you where talking about the other fighter did you mean the Scorpion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caerbannog Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 Nice looking ship. Mix of two Tomcats and a Cobra? Could be a nice scratchbuild project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Vale Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 There are some slightly better pictures on Ken Larson's site here: http://www.universalhartland.com/code/buck101s.shtml Apparently built (or detailed?) by Illianna Lowry from a design by David Jones. It's a super-cool design, I'd like to make one too. Edit: Found a couple of bigger pics of the original prop: http://www.smallartworks.ca/Battlebuck/Rogers/Misc/Scorpion.jpg You can see what looks like the Cobra upper fuselage cut in half and mounted on the underside. I wonder if it's the 1/32 Revell Cobra, plus a 1/48 Tomcat? Cheers, Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Vale Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Looks like I was right, at least this build on the internet uses those bits and looks about right, proportionally: https://public.fotki.com/am73grand/science-fiction/buck-rogers-scorpio/ The nice thing is that 48/32 = 72/48, so you can do a more practical ~48th scale version with the same recipe. Cheers, Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 That's it Will I didn't know it was called a Scorpion, but it looks like I was right on the nail with the Tomcat base Wonder if anyone does a kit of that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Vale Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Credit to Thud for knowing the name, I used that to go looking for the source kits. Those Tomcat fuselages did quite a lot of sci-fi duty! Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Kit bashing in general did a lot of sci-fi duty... pore over any of the miniatures for nearly every sci-fi film/series and you'll find Tiger engine decks, ship gun barrels & such Them woz the days. It must have been weird for the SW:TFA guys to create shapes that were model kits in their own right beforehand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Baker Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 1 hour ago, Mike said: Kit bashing in general did a lot of sci-fi duty... pore over any of the miniatures for nearly every sci-fi film/series and you'll find Tiger engine decks, ship gun barrels & such Them woz the days. It must have been weird for the SW:TFA guys to create shapes that were model kits in their own right beforehand. Or Bandai recreating original donor kits in scale for their 1:72 Falcon greebly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thud4444 Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 4 hours ago, Mike said: That's it Will I didn't know it was called a Scorpion, but it looks like I was right on the nail with the Tomcat base Wonder if anyone does a kit of that? If you balked at thunder prices.... The cheapest I've found was $385. For an old Alfred Wong kit in 1/48. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Holy mother of dad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Vale Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 8 hours ago, Mike said: Kit bashing in general did a lot of sci-fi duty... pore over any of the miniatures for nearly every sci-fi film/series and you'll find Tiger engine decks, ship gun barrels & such Oh absolutely, but perhaps more as detail parts over custom armatures or resin castings. There aren't soo many things where a recognisable part of the overall shaping comes from a kit, and they tend to be at the low budget end of the spectrum. The A-Wing is pretty unusual. 8 hours ago, Mike said: It must have been weird for the SW:TFA guys to create shapes that were model kits in their own right beforehand. Aye. Although the ultimate full circle must be that some of the X-Wing shots in Empire or RotJ used MPC (or AMT?) X-Wing kits Cheers, Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Baker Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 The Medical Frigate used parts from the MPC X-Wing kit for engine detailing... (the tech strip behind R2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spruecutter96 Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Just watched the "disco" scene...... "Would Sir like some cheese grated on to his cheese?" Holy Moley, they were very different times in them days. Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozothenutter Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Ooooohhhhh...I loved that show...Wilma Deering.....loved Wilma Deering.... had the kits as a kid....I thing there were my first foray into weathering aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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