Felinoid

When I went back to the shop, the X-Wing was gone, so I picked up the Fine Molds TIE Fighter instead. Great detail, and I like the masks provided for the clear parts. The instructions are all in Japanese, but this will not be a problem as the drawings are very clear. One problem, though... No English titles given to the colors to be used, but I noticed that some are presented as a number surrounded by a square. Are these the same colors given as in Hasegawa instructions, with a similar style? Or is there a website that can help me? Felinoid

I have found a Fine Molds X-Wing at a local shop. I would love to try it, having seen the build here on your website, but $41 is a chunk of change, plus, I've been out of the loop for awhile. Is it worth the exhorbiant charge? Perhaps I should pick it up and put it the stash and try after a few more kits? I also saw the old AMT kit is back, but I recall building that as a kid (nightmares) and I'm trying to stick with 1/72 kits. Any feedback is welcome. Felinoid

Let's be honest-the matter of the best sci-fi, whether it be television or the movies, is a highly debatable matter. I have told my students for years that at least the first Star Wars movie is not science fiction, it is a fairy tale told with sci-fi trappings (black knight vs white knight, a beautiful princess, a farm boy who achieves heroism, etc). But bad sci-fi- that's another tale. I shall stick to television here. No argument on such pap as Buck Rogers (and absolutely no argument about Erin Gray). But does anyone recall Space:1999 or UFO? Both were the brainchildren of Gerry and Sylvia

Personally, I wish they had found time to insert Q into the mix somewhere, if not neccessarily the last episode. He was always a favorite of mine (although a few of the episodes spotlighting the charactor were not of the best quality), and the gifted charactor actor John DeLancie was always terrific. Some say he was too over the top-well, if you were a being with the power to eliminate history at a whim, so would you be. I liked a lot of the small touches in the last episode-Reed commenting "All good things.." (an homage to the last TNG episode), the hastily-installed control panels that were

Did you also take notice that the female lead in the aforementioned Twilight Zone episode was Mariette Hartley, who also portrayed Zarabeth in on of the few notable third season episodes if ST:TOS, "All Our Yesterdays" ? Quite an attractive young woman, there. Two questons concerning "In A Mirror, Darkly", was the Peter Weller charactor the same as in the recent two-parter, albiet as a "mirror image"? And the wife and I were both confused as to why the "real" Jonathan Archer kept appearing and talking to the "mirror" Archer. It was not a plot point, and nothing was done to continu

Perhaps this will help, if your interest is in constucting a non-working hilt-only type of prop. I have in my possession a book called From Star Wars To Indiana Jones:The Best Of The Lucasfilm Archives, by Mark Gotta Vaz and Shinji Hata, Chronicle Books, 1994. On pages 24-25 there are several pictures of the various weapons employed in the original Star Wars film. Included are three different lightsaber props.According to the supplied text, they were constructed from " old-fashioned press photography camera flash bars, with additional parts machined on." Unfortunately, I do not have a scann

I performed some research on your site and made a shopkeeper very happy yesterday. I visited a few other stores as well. Hobby Shop- Squadron White Putty Lots of paints, mostly acrylic, but some enamels (Model Master, Tamiya, Polly Scale), plus a few spray cans. I intend on graduating to an airbrush soon, let me do more research. Sanding sticks Files Bare-Metal Foil Testors Liquid Cement (with the small diameter metal tube, what a brilliant concept) Testors White Glue in a similar container Tenax Tamiya Tape Art Supply Store