Mike Walston
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
In the final episode of the 1978 TV series Battlestar Galactica, the crew searching for Earth narrowly miss a transmission of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Mike modeled a follow up scene that indicates Galactica’s crew did intercept the signal using Monogram's 1/32 scale Colonial Viper in front of Monogram's 1/48 scale Lunar Landing diorama. Both kits were built straight from the box. “I left out the LEM ascent stage and put the astronauts' backpacks at the foot of the descent stage to show that the Earthmen had already gone,” Mike says. “I detached a wing and added light scorching and weathering to the crashed Viper. I call the scene ‘Almost Made It.’"