A huge part of being a 70's Star Kid was
building spaceship models. I have no idea if kids today even still build model kits, but when I was growing up, it was both a frustrating
and rewarding way to add to my burgeoning sci-fi memorabilia collection.
Here's a comic book ad from 1980 featuring the
Battlestar Galactica and
Buck Rogers model kits from Monogram. Presumably, the TV revival of
Galactica: 1980 encouraged Monogram to try and move some unsold
Battlestar Galactica overstock from a couple years before alongside the newer
Rogers kits.
To see
my adolescent build-ups of these same models, go
HERE or
HERE.
And here's an ad from '79, promoting AMT's line of
Star Trek- The Motion Picture model kits. I had the Enterprise and the Vulcan shuttle, neither of which survived. I had all the classic AMT
Trek television kits, too, but I always ran into the same problems. On the various
Enterprises, the engine pylons always drooped under the negligible weight of the nacelles. I don't know if anyone else had those problems, or if I just kept getting defective kits. The "neck" of the TV Klingon Battlecruiser also tended to droop, as I recall....
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