Friday, February 07, 2014
Cloned from a Mutual Zygote: Discovery/Searcher Edition
award-winning creator of the web series Abnormal Fixation (2024), the audio drama Enter the House Between (2023) and author of 35 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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I always thought the Buck Rogers Searcher was based on the Discovery. Even when we first saw the Searcher in season one Buck Rogers as a "cruise ship". That model was just reused after being repainted.
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Man, I drew a LOT of spaceships when I was a kid that had a suspicious similarity to the Searcher... it was really easy to start off with a big circle for the forward end!
ReplyDeleteProbably why I also loved drawing the Soyuz/Salyut come to think of it, plus green made a nice break from Apollo white when in was in the mood for drawing something real.