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The other week, I found this nicely-styled illustration by Ryuhi Misaki on twitter.

I found this yesterday.  It's an article scanned by twitter user; bomberxf01, which the person claimed was part of an initiative to make a movie of the show, after the series ended.
The write-up didn't mention a date when the article was published, but I don't see how they could have produced a movie, with all the props, sets and puppets having been destroyed by fire ... unless they planned on re-creating them.

The situation with the unknown enemy is growing serious and the NX-191052 has arrived to reinforce NX-140646 at Starbase 17.

The Lin Wood is essentially four engineering-style hulls, containing a total of four conventional warp cores and four 'Best of Both Worlds'-style deflector cannons.
These four main weapons are capable of simultaneous fire, or a continuous, sequential rapid-fire cycle, where at least one cannon is firing at any given time, which can be sustained for at least several hours of continuous output.

The 8 phaser strips are intended for point defence and the 18 photon torpedo launchers are there for no real reason, just in case; the intention being that the vessel would normally be escorted by an entire battle group.

Since the ship contains no holodecks, large cargo bays, cetacean ops or petting zoos, the ship can maintain a surprising maximum warp for extended periods, the exact value of which is highly classified.

Star Fleet Saturday has a habit now of occurring on the Saturday...

I already had a photo of this painting of Dai-X from prolific comic book artist; Lee Bradley on xbomber.co.uk.
#leebradley

Well, the original came up on eBay before Christmas, and now I have it, thanks to Dominique, and now the website has a better scan of it ...

Captain Pepe is taking no prisoners ...

I was reminded by a post on one of the Star Fleet groups that I had collected quite a few Star Fleet images from Japanese artist; U1timate, which he often likes to do around Christmas time.
 
 X-Bomber | U1timate
 
 Merry Christmas and here's to another year of Star Fleet Saturdays!

Star Fleet Saturday gets pushed on a Saturday this week, rather than Friday, for various important reasons.

The lovely painting from last week's instalment sold on Yahoo Auctions. I think it was bought over FromJapan, since I think I recognised the username and its feedback was very high for a normal, private individual.

This week, here's a great illustration of Dai-X from pixiv, by Japanese artist Rokugo Aono.

Well here's something new ...
This painting was done in 2004 by Maemura Kyotsu as part of a range of illustrations commissioned by Gentosha Comics.

The style reminds me a lot of the Toshio Okazaki illustrations for the Showa books, but maybe even finer.

In any case, the painting is being sold in Japan on Yahoo auctions:
https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/en/auction/yahoo/input/m462429526/lgk-link_search

Here's something a little different this week...
Twitter user 059100 had some pictures of him trying his Dynamite Action Dai-X (I found one of those on Yahoo Auctions Japan the other day) out in some toy vehicles, that are apparently from Kamen Rider. ;)

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I saw this shared by my friend and master model builder; David Sisson.
Without that, I would've never come across it.

This is a great video. If you watch to the end, you get a great look at the MEV, which is completely different to the Captain Scarlet MEV.
This intriguing vehicle is used about twice in the show; to my memory; and only briefly. The only close-up shots you get are from the side.
You can see here that the crane arm (with laser cannon) is rail-mounted, so it can travel to the front of the vehicle and pick something up in-front of the cockpit.
I remember that the gun on the crane arm is gobsmackingly powerful; creating absolute havoc among the enemy with only a few shots.
Also, you can see that the vehicle must come in two variants; one with caterpillar tracks as seen in "To Catch a Tiger" and then with skis, like you see here.
They must have a few of these machines on SpaceHawk, since the one that you see is marked as #4.

I like the space tank as well, with the rows of zeroids on either side, which would've presumably worked like phalanx guns for suppressing fire or missile interception.

These models have held up surprisingly-well, given that nearly 40 years have passed by.
Updated Nov 27, 2020, 10:45 AM

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