CultTVman's
Ultimate Modeling Guide to Classic Sci-Fi Movies -
CultTVman's Ultimate Modeling Guide to Classic Science Fiction
Movies features 152 pages of material covering all your classic
science fiction subjects: Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds,
2001, A Space Odyssey and more! Contents includes: A Trip to the
Moon - the first sci-fi movie spaceship; Flash Gordon's Rocketship;
Destination Moon's Luna; Rocketship X-M; Gort from The Day The
Earth Stood Still; The War of the Worlds Martian War; The Nautilus
from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; The C-57D from Forbidden Planet;
Robby the Robot; The Time Machine; The Proteus from Fantastic
Voyage; The Planet of the Apes spaceship; The Discovery from 2001
and 2010; The Orion from 2001; The Enterprise from Star Trek the
Motion Picture. The introduction is by Star Trek's Rick Sternbach
Among the model building information and techniques are painting
your ships; diorama creation; metallic paint finishes; lighting;
resin building; casting parts; resin figure building; styrene
kit construction; creative model displays; aftermarket parts.
Articles about the Discovery and Enterprise studio models.
Yesterday's
Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future -
Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily
go "for weeks" without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined,
"hurricane-proof" houses will pivot on their foundations
like weather vanes. The family car will turn into an airplane
so easily that "a woman can do it in five minutes."
Our wars will be fought by robots. And our living room furniture--waterproof,
of course--will clean up with a squirt from the garden hose. In
Yesterday's Tomorrows Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan explore
the future as Americans earlier in the last century expected it
to happen. Filled with vivid color images and lively text, the
book is eloquent testimony to the confidence--and, at times, the
naive faith--Americans have had in science and technology. The
future that emerges here, the authors conclude, is one in which
technology changes, but society and politics usually do not. The
authors draw on a wide variety of sources--popular-science magazines,
science fiction, world fair exhibits, films, advertisements, and
plans for things only dreamed of. From Jules Verne to the Jetsons,
from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw,
the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past
demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas
of the future.
Land
of the Giants - The Full Series -
After their sub-orbital space craft is drawn into a space warp,
the passengers and crew of the Spindrift, crash into a planet
where everything is 12 times its normal size!
