Original Phoenix, now 30 years old.
16″ Proteus.
5TH ELEMENT CARS.
I did these prototypes for Hollywood Collectibles Group
X-29
This is a homage the the rockets of the 50s.
SCARAB 1
SKYLYNE.
i got my inspiration for this one driving home from Boss Film.
i saw a catamaran on sawhorses upside down.
BACK TO THE FUTURE 3 TRAIN
everything had to be handmade, on parts off the shelf, this model is 3 feet long’
ROGER YOUNG
i was charged with upgrading the 19″ version, to the 18 foot version.
I built this one for myself while working on the film.
i built this in collaboration with Hugh Syme for an album cover for a group called Tesla.
This was made from a 12″ hamster ball.
I vacuformed plastic over the domes to get the plating, it.s my homage to the 2001 era.
TRON light cycles (analog version).
Resin kits modified.
What I mean by “analog version” is not digital!
A little joke!
GUNSTAR (analog version),
The story behind this kit is i bought a 12″ kit and i was so disappointed I built this pattern and sold it to monsters in motion. I figured the public deserved better.
TIME MACHINE (new version)
scratch built.
TERMINATOR 2 H.K .
VOYAGER from Fantastic Voyage the cartoon.
This a 16″ scratch build i did back in 1994. Later lunar models would buy it from me and made a kit out of it. iIt’s discontinued.
This 34″ Falcon is scratch built. it took about 3 months to build it.
The DRAGONFLY
This is my latest (10-14-07). I designed and built it in 2 weeks.
The THUNDER ROAD
From the film EXPLORERS, I did as a goof originally to see how fast i could build a scratch built model, it took 14 hours.
USS EARHART
This is one of my own designs i built in about 2 weeks. It’s 35″ long, with strobe flash lights, leds, and mini florescence bulbs in it as well. I guess you could say it’s from the Kirk era.
ICARUS ll
This is my version of the “BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES”.
In the film they used corrugated sheet metal and the landing gear off the JUPITER2 for the full size set piece.
2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY DISCOVERY
This is Scott Alexander’s 11.5′ version. I (and many others) helped Scott create the pattern for it.
2001 Discovery Pod 1/6 scale
The CONSTRUCTION SHIP, it’s the oldest model I have. I scratch built it in 1979,
The ARCHIMEDES. I was inspired from the MATRIX, so I designed and built this model in 2 weeks. It doesn’t have scale, all I know is it’s 19″ long.
SPACE 1999 EAGLE. I did back in 1998. It’s 90% is scratch built.
BLADE RUNNER SPINNER
This is the 1/18 scale spinner out of japan called “the back to the future 2 future car”. after purchasing the mega box set of blade runner, i decided after 3 years to throw some paint on it and the decals a friend sent me. naturally, i couldn’t leave well enough alone, i had to redo the interior doors, walls, seats, dashboard, opera windows, thrusters underneath, and make it light ready…. and make a cool display base which was from the original spinner plaque, i don’t like to waist time so i finished this in 3 days
This is the little spinner that comes with the box set. this is the one that motivated to finish the 1/18 scale version. The base is made with ALL original parts from blade runner, the photo etch towers, the resin base, which I didn’t know until a week ago it was from Blade Runner’ as well. I’ve had this mold forever, the mold’s falling apart. It was one of the roof tops on the outer slanted buildings surrounding the Tyrrell corp.
THIS IS AN OLDIE. I designed it over 20 years ago!. It’s 24″ long made out of plastic, it’s very fragile. I wanted something that looked fast and this is what I can up with. about 10 years ago, a friend showed me an artical where someone used the design in a video game.
Randy, I’ve first seen your incredible modeling work in the Fine Scale Modeler magazine Feb 1987 issue Vol5 No 1, the article Randy Cooper’s fantastic modeling is a fun read as the author Larry Munne was surprised when he saw your models, getting ready for a good laugh when he herd there were sc fi models was amazed at your work as was I at seeing photos in that article, your 1/48 scale of the pleasure craft Phoenix was is astounding…this I wish was available as a model as the 1/48 scale belt miner and the Recon Seven would make awesome models,these models still are ahead of there time even today, thank you for providing us modelers great models. Karl
yes truly awesome. you must spend a lot of time on these models awake and asleep. yes bigger pics would be great. . do you make your own parts like fuselage and engine pods
Randy, I hate to say this, but you really need to spell-check all your captions. It’s a shame to have such beautiful work spoiled by incorrect spelling and grammar….kinda cuts down on the air of professionalism that otherwise suffuses these fine pages.
Please don’t be offended by this critique…it’s only meant to suggest an area of improvement that would take everything to the next level, where it all truly belongs!
Randy, glad to see so much of your work here! Also very glad to see the MOON HOPPER and FALCON are still intact! This guy is great and the detailing and weathering is exquisite. Bigger pics would show it off better. You should see this guy take and idea, put it on paper and transform nothing into such creations. It’s amazing!
You should do another article on weathering models step by step. See that you redid the SPINNER. Like the other color better, but just me.
Lynda