SMN report: We’re a bit tardy with this info, but there’s still time to bag a bargain. Fantastic Plastic, which styles itself as: “The Virtual Museum of Flying Wonders!” certainly gets our vote for creating and marketing the widest range of rare and odd machinery, both real and fictional. There’s plenty to choose from in the sale, though as we’re in Star Trek mode just now, there are three kits that look particularly interesting. Sleeper ship DY-100 Botany Bay First off, the 1:350 scale Botany Bay . It’s a simple resin kit with just a dozen components, and comes in ‘bare-metal’ finish - that’s to say, decals are not included, though that’s no great problem for this sort of subject. A word about the ship itself, which appeared in the first-season episode ‘Space Seed’, itself forming the basis for the 1982 motion picture Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . The DY-100 was powered by sub-light ion engines, so the crew had to spend years-long voyages in suspended animation. The ship, wor...
