SCALE: 1/48

INITIAL RELEASE: 1954

MEDIUM: Polystyrene

RARITY: (2)

ABOUT THE DESIGN

ABOUT THE KIT

This classic alien "flying saucer" comes straight from the Golden Age of Little Green Men.  A basic convex disc with a bubble-dome cockpit within which the big-headed Martian pilot is visible, the craft also featured twin jet/rocket engines on its "tail," additional engines on its "rotating" rim, and a pair of "zap guns" for shooting down pesky Air Force fighter planes.  A timeless relic of Eisenhower Era mythology and paranoia, the Lindberg "Flying Saucer" captures in plastic the hopes, fears and innocence of Pre-Sputnik America.

The Lindberg "Flying Saucer" holds a place in history as being the world's first injection-molded science-fiction model.  Re-released repeatedly during the 1950s and 1960s, it again hit the shelves in the 1970s in a "glow-in-the-dark" version, and finally in the 1990s as one of the Golden Age science fiction kits resurrected by Glencoe Models.

The model was also released by Lindberg in the mid-1950s as part of its "Spaceships of the Future" and "Past, Present and Future" collector's sets.

This is a build-up of the 1990s Glencoe re-release.

Original Box Art

Re-Release Box Art

Alternative Re-Release Box Art

Glencoe Re-Release Box Art

"Space Ships of the Future" Collector's Set

"Past Present Future" Box Art