Since we're already in a Battlestar Galactica mood from that last post I thought I'd share one more image from the "70's sci-fi geek" portion of my blog picture folder with all of you, whether you like it or not!Clearly 11 or 12 year old me felt this would be much more convincing than 40 year old me does, but in 1979 or 1980 this battle-scarred (thanks to a handy dandy magnifying glass and a sunny day) Battlestar Galactica Viper model I built a year or two earlier inspired the not so convincing "What's that in the sky?!" shot above.
I'm sure that when I showed the above instamatic photo to friends and family I held it near the top with my thumb strategically placed over the nigh-invisible thread. Of course nowadays an 11 year old could easily create what I had envisioned in my head back then with some photo editing software and 15 minutes to spare...
But despite the gains from dynamite special effects pizazz I think it loses much of its original charm and innocent fun.At least I didn't display my Viper model at Hooters though...
4 comments:
This is cooler than Galactica 1980!
Todd: Thanks, but what isn't?! Well... those flying motorcycles were pretty nifty I'd have to admit.
Ahh,.. flying motorcycles. I remember that well. They did that in the movie "Megaforce" too.
I so remember looking forward to Galactica 1980,... and then being so disappointed after watching it. They made the Viper a 2 seater!! I always thought that was weird.
What would Freud have had to say about a couple of middle-aged virgins building an eight-foot long replica of the most phallic spacecraft in SF and taking it to Hooters to photograph young ladies touching it?
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