THE SFX VIPER BY APOGEE
An image of the sfx model viper with some of the more noticeable differences marked out. Ever seen a CGI viper that looks anything like this one? No, me neither.
AN UNUSUAL VIPER
This
is a rather odd photograph reprinted here for current lack of a better place to put it.
This is a scan from the back of Space Trek Special 1978 and is part of an
advertisement for the Monogram Battlestar Galactica model kits. But neither is
this picture the Monogram viper or the sfx viper. Looking it over, it’s an amalgam of
the two. It has the simplified nose section of the Monogram kit, but lacks the lip on the
rear of the engine intakes, as does the sfx model, and although it’s not as visible
here as I would like, does have the same afterburner cans as the sfx model, with more ribs
and details. The laser cannon are also mounted differently from the Monogram kit and look
a little more like the cannons on the sfx viper. So the question is, what is this
thing? My best guess is that it’s an early pattern for the Monogram viper!