All,

after seeing all of the cool designs in the "I Miss the Deep Space Fantasy models" thread at TRF, it got my mind churning.

http://www.rocketryforum.com/showth...&threadid=13966

There, I saw some of the really cool designs from Shrox (Sarah Connor, Icarus, Solarkron). I became impatient, so I went and built the Icarus as best I could from the picture.

http://www.rocketryforum.com/showth...20&pagenumber=1

After building and discovering how relatively easy the "ping-pong ball" trick is, I decided to start playing with the theme.

So here you have it, my first scratchbuilt model in almost 20 years. However, I'm still trying to decide on the nose cone...

Later,
EV

Picture 1 - Short Ogive nose cone

Picture 2 - Long Ogive nose cone

Picture 3 - PNC-50CA from the Alien Invader (available at Moldin' Oldies). I like this one the best, but I've got that cone reserved for my AI clone.

Picture 4 - Rear detail

Picture 5 - Overhead plan view

As you can see, there's a little bit of Alien Invader in there, as well as the canard design and ping-pong ball being straight from Shrox's Alien8. The wing shape was insipred by the design of the Centauri ships in Babylon5. I'm also trying to come up with a name. Here are some of my ideas....

Centauri
Chiron (the centaur that taught Hercules)
Annihil8
Obliter8

Any suggestions?

Later,
EV

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