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Keith sent in these excellent photos of the Space Shuttle Discovery in its new berth at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum's Steven F. Uvar-Hazy Center annex near Dulles Airport in Washington D.C.

Take a trip into the wonderful manufacturing hub of Bandai's Star Wars model series. You may think manufacturing models is an automatic process handled by robots, but in fact, it requires the superb craftsmanship of a team of experienced model makers.

Randy is well known in sci-fi scratch-building corner of the web, but we thought it would be nice to highlight this recent project on a Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer measuring 42 inches (107cm) in length.

Gary (Transition Modeller on YouTube) built up this unique looking kits last year for us. Apologies on their late arrival here on the site.

Kostas Katseas stirs the fantasy waves with his latest mini-diorama of the US Naval fleet taking down an Imperial Star Destroyer and then trying to avoid the inevitable.

Daniel shows us the RetroSF Spiderbananaaa! kit and diorama base he made for his son who is a fan of the web slinger.

Ron started with the AMT/ERTL 1/32 kit of the Enterpcrise Bridge from the original Star Trek TV series1960's and greatly enhanced it. Lighting up the controls and adding the bridge outer hull completely transforms the kit into a unique display piece.

ALIEN made audiences cringe in 1978 and along with Star Wars premiering the previous year, they played a major role in cementing science fiction as the next great film genre. This Polar Lights resin kit build with lights was built by Anthony 'Ant' Hughes

Andy Brazier (betheyn) brings us photos of the Sci-Fi entries at Scale Model World 2015, held on the weekend of November 7th and 8th. Thanks, Andy!

David Woods (dwartist) assembled and painted a few kits from Modern Armies in Miniature's 1/35 "Front 46" product line and arranged them in a stunning vignette. Thanks, David!

Michael Maynard (Superchief) brings us his custom diorama of "The Mysterians: The Moguera." Thanks, Michael!

Celso shares with us his latest -a Hasegawa kit of the VF-22 Sturmvogel from the Japanese animated series Macross 7, the 3rd television series form the Macross franchise.

Duncan shows us a side of Star Trek not typically seen by viewers. A ship referenced but not seen in the original series but given a form in the effects updated Star Trek: Remastered series.

Top Gun meets World of Warcraft. Will Vale shares with us his work on a subject that even Maverick and Goose may have met their match with.

An original design from Dizzyfugu, a.k.a Thomas, from Germany; a'Labor' from the universe of the Japanese anime Patlabor. Thomas provides a detailed description of his kitbashing as well as a backstory for this mecha.

Shawn has allowed us to post some of his latest work. This is his first Ma.k universe kit as well as his first Wave kit and 1/20 scale kit.

An kitbash/scratchbuild project turning a model kit of a robot from the movies into a a space vehicle concept from another movie.

From the rebooted Japanese animated series Yamato 2199, the Bandai 1/1000 as done by Celso Ryuji from Brazil.

From trailer park kid to hero of the galaxy, Alex Rogan saves Earth and the Star League from the traitorous Xur with help of his pilot, Grig, in their Gunstar. Duncan Scott provides us with his wonderful build of Alex's space fighter.

Rob Pollock (rob_pollock) brings us his 1/35 Steampunk conversion he titled, "Matilda Swann - Steam Wars."