Visitors' Transport from "V" (1983)

SCALE: 1/72

INITIAL RELEASE: 1990s

MEDIUM: Resin

RARITY: (4)

ABOUT THE DESIGN

ABOUT THE KIT

The mini-series "V" was a big hit for NBC when it aired in spring 1983.   A not-so-subtle parable of Nazism, the show focused on the arrival of seemingly benevolent humanoid "Visitors" who quickly established totalitarian rule all across our vulnerable planet.  The Visitors' technology was advanced, but still very recognizable: huge saucer-shaped "motherships" (clearly the inspiration for the "city destroyers" in 1998's Independence Day) and smaller modular atmospheric vessels that could be configured as either fighters, tankers or transport ships.

This atmospheric transport was used by the alien Visitors to shuttle crew and equipment to and from their motherships and between surface bases.  Capable of traveling only at subsonic speeds, transports were usually unarmed.

Because the kit was bagged, no box art is available.  Below is a photo of a Transport miniature used in the filming of the actual mini-series.

Series Miniature