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This is about the combination of two interests, Radio Control vehicles and Science Fiction models. This blog documents my science fiction spaceship and radio controlled vehicle projects.

Completed projects index

Completed Projects

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Film Can Spaceship completed 2023

 Uses a modified AMT Reliant model kit and a Nerf Nitron along with two 16mm film cans in its construction.
 

 

Dart Scoutship kitbash spaceship completed 2023


 
Kitbashed from the wings and fin of a Revell 1/32 scale Mirage jet fighter kit.
  
Part 1
Part 2 

 

 

Heavy Salvage Tug Spaceship completed 2023


 
Mostly scratch built but uses some charity store bought items such as a babies toy dome, acrylic Christmas themed wine glasses and half sphere baubles.
  
Part 1
Part 4 

 

 

Creeper 6x6 RC Vehicle completed 2022



Scratchbuilt body on a custom 6X6 chassis with Venom creeper running gear.

Part 7
Part 8

 

Science Vessel Spaceship completed 2021

 

Uses many found objects in its construction, including a blender jug, lampshade, acrylic drinking cups and tap handles. Started around the mid to late 1990's.


 Part 5 
 

 

Merchant Vessel Spaceship completed 2021



Engines made from, among other things, two children's torches, one a Barbie and one a Bananas in Pajamas, two versions of the same thing.
 
 

 

Stretched Sabre Spaceship Completed 2021


Kit bashed spaceship uses 1/18 scale Hobby Boss F86 Sabre fuselage as the main hull.

Part 1Part 3
Part 5 

 

Moon Bug RC Vehicle Completed 2021




Kyosho Mad Crusher VE chassis with Imex Jumbo Maxx tyres and HoBao Monster Pirate 17mm hex wheels dyed red. Body made from a large acrylic pot with a crayola colour explosion toy dome at the back end and a small acrylic bowl at the other. Cab has a plastic bowl at both ends. Model is 1/16 scale and radio controlled.

 

 

Moon Bus RC Vehicle completed 2020.

Scratchbuilt cab and chassis using Venom Creeper Rock Crawler axles and Imex clodbuster tractor pull tyres on RC4WD aluminium beadlocks.

 

 

"Resilient" Corellian Cruiser Spaceship Completed 2020

 

Scratchbuilt, my own take on a Corellian ship somewhere between a Radiant VII and a Tantive IV.

 

 

Moebius-1 completed 2020


My interpretation of some concept art done for the original Battlestar Galactica series from 1978.



Reverse Trike RC Vehicle completed 2018

3 wheeled vehicle scratchbuilt on top of a modified Traxxas Jato chassis.




Explorer RC Vehicle completed 2018

Scratchbuilt on a modified Traxxas nitro Revo chassis using electric Summit running gear.
 
Part 1



Konghead Toybash 6x6 RC Vehicle completed 2018

 

Toybashed hull on a Tamiya Kong Head 6x6 chassis.

 

Escape Pod MkII Spaceship completed 2016

Made from a Volta dustbuster and the cut down engines from a Barbie toy jet plane.

 

 

Kit bash Shuttlecraft Spaceship completed 2016

Kitbashed using a 1/35 Frelon Helicopter kit and three acrylic wine glasses.



Escape Pod Spaceship completed 2016


Made from a Hoover dustbuster.





Toybash Truck completed 2015

Toybashed from a Bruder dozer cab and two Rubbish truck toys on a modified Venom Creeper Rock Crawler chassis.


Sony Spaceship completed late 1990's

The most popular post on this site by a long way, I have no idea why but this post gets more page views than the rest of the site combined.
Made in the mid 1990's from a number of found objects including a bedside lamp housing as well as Sony plastic bookshelf speaker covers and Sony Di-sub video printer cartridges hence the name.

 

 

Old spaceship model completed mid 1990's

Made in the early to mid 1990's from a collection of found objects including a babies toy, plastic bowls, a plastic terrarium, fishing floats, an acrylic cup and plastic model kit parts.



Chris Foss Style Spaceship completed mid 1980's

Made from a fibreglass covered, carved urethane foam core and made in the mid 1980's, one of my first serious attempts at a sci fi model. Paint job appropriated from Chris Foss concept art of a Spice transport ship from the unmade 1974 Jodorowsky Dune project.


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