AutoCad of Roswell Spacecraft for Testors

DESIGN ORIGINATION: Twenty-two drawings and sketches rendered by me, Bill McDonald that were turned in to John Andrews. The identity of the original AutoCad engineer and artist was lost when John Andrews died, Ernie Petit retired to Florida, and a Japanese toy company bought up the warehouse full of kits, their tooling and all inventory. Recently, Rustoleum decided to stop manufacturing Testor paints. It's a sad end for this era in the Twenty-Teens.

IDENTITY OF THE ARTIST: We lost touch with the identity of the Lockheed AutoCad artist who rendered this and five other views for the Testor Corporation.

LOCATION: Calabasas, California.

SIGNIFICANCE: The "AutoCad of Roswell Spacecraft for Testors" was created back in late 1994 and was tweaked very early 1995. During the model kit's development process, John Andrews and Ernie Petit hired a Lockheed Martin guy to attempt a series of AutoCad renders from my forensic composite blueprint of the Roswell Alien Waverider Command Module.

This computer program wielded by a Lockheed Martin aviation concept prototype engineer wizard whose name I am still searching for really helped lock down the design tooling for our Testor Corporation polystyrene model kit of the "Roswell UFO" released on the July 4th weekend of 1997--the fiftieth anniversary of the overnight crash 32 miles north of the town of Roswell which is now the City of Roswell which is the fourth largest city in New Mexico and is the home of one of--if not the largest--yearly rodeos on Earth.

Celebrity Actress Demi Moore grew up in this town and graduated from the town's Roswell High School. The town's iconic newspaper, the "Roswell Daily Record," ran a multi-full-page story on me, the kit, and a number of the drawings you are seeing in this portfolio.

HISTORICALLY: Merger talks between Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta began in March 1994, with the companies announcing their $10 billion planned merger on August 30, 1994. The headquarters for the combined companies would be at Martin Marietta headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland.