The Catacombs Art- Spaceships

I have sketched some of the less well-known props and models in the series. You don't see much of them on screen but I like the look of them, and drawings show details you cannot see in photographs. These sketches aren't works of art, or technical blueprints, but they were drawn with reference to the original props and models. In addition to my poor draughtmanship the scans of photocopies don't give great quality! They are all copyright Martin Willey.

The Meta Probe from Breakaway. One of the few ships with obvious solar panels. This is a fast powerful probeship, as can be seen by the three rear rockets. Crew may be minimal (the command module is a modified Eagle command module and the crew compartments are tiny, much smaller than the Ultra Probe). In front of the long cylindrical fuel tanks are equipment and experimental pods. This lean craft is evidently built quickly and cheaply for a fast trip out and back.
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The Hawk from War Games. There is an extensive article and photos of the model here. A clever design that suggests a common heritage with the Eagle while being much more sleek and deadly.
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The Superswift never got off the drawing board, but an illusion of it appeared in Bringers Of Wonder. No, there is no obvious hatch for the pilot ship. The large and small tanks (fuel and supplies) indicate this is a long range deep space craft, although unlike the Ultra Probe it has large robust legs for landing.
The Collision Course shuttle resembles NASA's space shuttle design, with a white hull, wings and rounded contours. We presume it launches vertically on it's massive rear rocket engines, and flies back through the atmosphere on horizontal flight. The landing gear must be retracted during flight; it would have to be sturdy. The end profile resembles the C5-Galaxy, the world's largest aircraft.
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The Sidon ship from Voyager's Return resembles a wasp, with a segmented body, large compound eyes and wasp's tail. It is hard to work out the scale of the craft, but we presume it is a large ship, equiped for a long journey following the Voyager and sufficiently armed to destroy the Earth.
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The scout ship from Space Warp. A different version of the same craft appeared in Mark Of Archanon (with a different nose, and the segments in a different configuration; the central docking bulkhead was at the rear of the craft, adjacent to the rockets).
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The Dorcon Probe from The Dorcons was a small robot scanning ship. Antenna on the nose and side buttresses suggest this craft is filled with remote sensing equipment, and also suggest the insect-like appearance of the parent craft, the imperial Dorcon barge.
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Copyright Martin Willey