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Captain Video's Galaxy II

[Thanks and Hail!  Zog]

Sponsored in part by Clyde 'Zog' Jones. Thanks!



by Jerry DeMocko

Scale: 1/48

The Leg

The model of Captain Video’s TV spaceship, the Galaxy II, has not been seen in 50 years. Now it arrives in 2005. That is one heck of a leg from black and white TV to the present.

The Model

When I was a boy, I was a fan of the Captain Video live TV show. On the Roaring Rockets website, I found a history of the Captain Video TV show and three pictures of his space ship, the Galaxy II. An interview with one of the original builders explained that it was kit-bashed from a 1950’s model. I figured out that it was a Lockheed XF-90 kit and I also got other clues from the website.

The model was scratch built from two 1/48th scale, vacuform kits of the XF-90 fighter that I ordered from Don’s Model Works. The model number is WM48023. Details of the ships proportions, cockpit, portholes, observation dome, and the probes sticking from the sides were extracted from the three pictures on the website. The model is built with two tip tanks, two fuselages cut horizontally, and one set of wings. The top halves of the XF-90 kits were joined to make the symmetrical Galaxy hull. The ship is a tailsitter, so the wings became the large tail fins. The tip tanks became the pods on the small tail fins. The fighter engine inlets were closed with curved plastic and became the Galaxy cockpit, which was painted on the inside. The portholes were individually assembled so that they stand out. The rocket nozzles are aluminum tube inserted into the four aircraft exhausts. The model is 15 inches tall and is painted silver like the original one.

Image: Bottom

Image: Nose

Image: Side

Image: Tail

Image: Top




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