NT/OT For “Star Wars” fans, my Fan-Boy geek credentials are still fully intact. I give you the T-81 Double X-Wing Heavy Attack Anti-Ship Vehicle
Well thats what I called it when I sketched it up…back in 1977! I was a HUGE Wars geek back then, I had the Ralph McQuary concept sketch books for the 1st flick and while I was doing my own drawings based on the concept sketched I pondered what if you connected two X-wings like the F-82 Double Mustang night fighter:
Unfortunaltly since my income at 13 was rather limited I couldnt afford to cut up 2 MDC X-wing kits to try it (I was glad to get the one kit I had!). So the idea was shelved and quickly forgotten. My Wars fanaticism was well intact right up until the Senior Lucas, now forever known as the Prince of Darkness, took a collective dump on all of us longtimers with those awful prequels, The Phantom Plotline, Attack of the Clowns, and Revenge of the Zits, that only seem to exist as a pretext to sell toys to 5 year olds and showcase “bad acting” lessons, and I still want to feed Jar Jar into the blades of a jet engine at full throttle. Luckily by then I was more of a Trek fan thanks to the TV shows so the Shock and Awe of badness wasnt as hard on me as some folks. Theres still a huge rift in the fanbase between fans of the first trilogy vs fans of the second, kinda like Trek original series and Next Generation fans…[original 
] Anyway…Fast forward now to today, well actually a few weeks ago when I saw the kits for sale, now I have no intention of getting back into kits again although today is literally THE Golden Age for sci fi kit geeks, everything from Wars Trek and even Irwin Allen TV shows Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, and Voyage to the bottom of the sea are now all avalable some in huge scales! So one day on a whim I bought the 2 on sale, these are prepainted snap togethers so they were perfect bash fodder. I have to admit I am really happy with the results, now I just need to build a support stand for it…
Now if someone would please PLEASE make a kit of the Valley Forge from the '73 movie “Silent Running” thats the Holy Grail model for me…
I always get a kick out of the drawer label in this pic…