Where no Jedi  has gone before...

Gallery Article by Alvis 3.1 on Jan 1 2015

Silly Week 2015

 

      

What if, in 1964 Gene Roddenberry attempted to produce a TV series, called Star Trek. His pilot is rejected as "too cerebral" by a network that is concentrating on Westerns, and is shown the door. He then tries for the next 10 years to get it taken up, to no result, until in 1974, George Lucas, having been rejected in buying the rights to "Flash Gordon", discovers the pilot episode of "Star Trek", and re-imagines it in a different reality, one with roguish captains and princesses and evil empires. 

 

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"My name is Captain James T. Solo, of the Starship Millenium Enterprise. Our Five Year Mission, to seek out Sithlords, and boldly go destroy them!"

Built from the AMT Snap Fit Enterprise issued in the late 1970s, and the Revell Snap Fit Millenium Falcon. Interestingly, the saucer section of each is the same size! Assembly was straightforward, with only a bit of hacking and slicing required. I covered up a lot of the falcon topside with .020 sheet styrene, to hide some of the details.

And to fans of either franchise, I'm sorry.

Alvis 3.1

      

Photos and text © by Alvis 3.1