![]() ![]() In the end, this is a remarkable kit with abundant possibilities for dioramas (see the video below for an excellent example). The AMT Polar Lights Galileo Shuttle with Interior 1:32 Scale Model is priced at $75 and is available at hobby stores and online at Amazon for $71. You can see the interior through the front window Perfect project for experienced Trek modelers… and those trying to learn While this discrepancy has long created a field day for nitpickers, it was quite common for big vehicle mockups for TV shows like the Galileo, Lost in Space’s Jupiter 2, and Land of the Giants’ Spindrift to be constructed at three-quarters scale, large enough to feel convincing next to the actors but small enough to be affordable and practical for television production. Gary Kerr and others noted that for the interior set to fit inside the Galileo the shuttlecraft would need to be about 30 feet long, not 21. ![]() While shots of actors exiting the full-size mockup clearly show them crouching to get out of the craft, the interior set has plenty of headroom for the actors to stand. Prior to the release of the kit, there was ample discussion about whether the model would include an interior, the issues being a) the ultimate cost of the kit and how that might affect potential sales, and b) the fact that the TV show’s interior set didn’t really match up with the exterior. ![]() Round2’s model kit flawlessly reproduced the sleek lines of the Galileo exterior, but a lot of fans complained about the kit lacking an interior-after all, if you have the model, the interior is very clearly visible either through the three clear front windows or the side exit door, which has an option to be built open or closed. There’s abundant research to be had, as the “full size” Galileo exterior mockup used on the series has been sitting around for years in various backyards, warehouses, and parking lots, finally restored and put on display at the Houston Space Center museum for several years and now on its way for installation at James Cawley’s official Star Trek Tour exhibit in Ticonderoga, New York.Ģ020 AMT Polar Lights Galileo model exterior It took 35 years for that to be checked off, but Round2 released a beautiful 1/32 Galileo model in late 2020, based on extensive research by Gary Kerr. Ironically, while AMT produced both the full-size and miniature Galileos for the series, when the company put out their own model kit of the shuttlecraft in 1975, they drastically simplified the ship for a wildly inaccurate 1/25 scale model that really was more or less a butter tub with a very simple interior and the ship’s coolest elements, mainly the rear section, all but ignored-making an accurate Galileo a longtime bucket list entry for Trek modelers. Inside the Galileo from TOS’ “Metamorphosis” AMT getting it right… five decades later Winfield worked with Jefferies to incorporate the nacelles and pylons which linked the shuttlecraft to the familiar design aspects of its mothership, the Enterprise. Kellogg’s original design lacked the distinctive warp nacelles (which are depicted as “boosters” in the seminal episode “The Galileo Seven” that introduced the ship) and featured a clear canopy that extended from the front to about halfway over the roof of the craft. ![]() series and later many of the street vehicles in Blade Runner) based on drawings by Thomas Kellogg, who designed the beautiful 1962 Studebaker Avanti, which shares some design aspects with the Galileo. In fact, its design lineage is sophisticated-it was built by Gene Winfield (a famed automobile designer who made the “Piranha” custom car for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The resulting spaceship has always been an underrated design, dismissed by many as looking like a butter dish or just a box with warp engines. Illustration of TOS shuttle from 1975’s Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Josef ![]()
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