I believe Bob Del Principe of the Centuri R&D staff designed at least the first three Fighter Fleet shown in the catalog images. Chris Michelson here on YORF I think knew him around that time and might can chime in.

However, I highly believe as mentioned above, that all the Fighter Fleet kits, from day one, had the pod nose and tail cones as shown in the image above on the right. They were all injection molded parts and every Fighter Fleet kit I have (the two mentioned above and multiples later on of ALL the kits in sealed condition) all had the same exact injection molded parts set for the nose and tail cones for the pods and nose and tail pieces for the small missiles. The image on the left above is simply the way the initial prototypes looked BEFORE everything was completely finalized for mass production purposes.

If anyone has production kit parts that look like that earlier image however, I’d love to see them.

If you need decal scans for these let me know.

Earl

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