"First Spacesahip on Venus" or "The Silent Star is a 1960 German/Polish science fiction classic. A heavily edited version was widely available in the West.
It's on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llfa7hThVaAIt's an interesting movie, but the most memorable part (for me) is the space ship - the Cosmostrator:
Pegasus released a
1/350 version of the Cosmostrator in 2014 including a chromed version.
It's a pretty simple model, although the fit of the wings isn't great. The model also has very sharp pointy ends. While I didn't expend much sweat or tears building this, I did bleed a bit...
I built most of the components shortly after it came out and put the model back in the box until this week, when I finished it in a couple of days.
I like how it looks dull in this image:
but more reflective in this one. Pretty much the way it appears on-screen:
It's mostly painted with Vallejo aluminum colors, with a satin finish (the ship isn't shown as being particularly shiny) followed by an aluminum powder rub in some areas.
I was going to make a base to go with it and add some 1/350 scale astronauts that I printed for another project. Something like this:
The background reminds me of the style of one of my favorite science fiction artists,
Richard M. Powers Maybe some other time.
