The Testors 1997 Model Kit of my "Roswell UFO" (also: Bill's 1997 Testors Roswell UFO)
That's my name on the box cover, along with the two book authors Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt. They had helped me get the movie gig that I wanted, drawing Roswell saucers for the Indi film shot and distributed via Sam & Maggie Productions, SHOWTIME and Viacom back in 1993. We all felt a strong sense of accomplishment launching this product with the Testor Corporation then homebased out of Rockford, Illinois.
Released and Distributed to hobby stores, toy stores and specialty hobbycraft stores worldwide over the Fourth of July weekend in 1997.
This is one of the five AutoCad images rendered by an engineer from Lockheed in Calabasas, California back around late 1995 and early 1996 for the Testor Corporation.
This is my on-the-spot, in-the-field, hand-rendered sketched blueprint of the flight crew-occupied "Biomorphic" thirty-two foot UFO vehicle with a twenty-five foot morphable camber wingspan.
The embedded layer of hexagonal power cells covering the little vessel's belly was noted by all witnesses and was included in the kit's design.
Our second Testor model kit of the Roswell UFO's entire "Crash Site" in resin released in July of 1999, two years after the first.
The crash site kit's interior casting:
"Zooming in on the Action":
The drawing that spawned the decal sheets for both model kits: The polystyrene plastic "Pristine" version of the "Roswell UFO," and the "Crash Site" wreck that was and is our resin kit: Testors used my artwork for the decals.