There’s a YouTube channel I’ve been meaning to feature here, and I think that time has come. It’s called “CreateSciFi,” and what I love about it is the many videos about building your own spaceships from common household items. It’s a testament to what was called “kit bashing” as well as the techniques that film studios once used to create their stellar vessels: You had someone in a model shop, and they got creative with existing model kits, hardware, and whatever was at hand.

Note: This is where I insert my pet theory that the Borg Cube was originally made from all the spare model kit trees that the people who built the miniature spaceships had lying around.

So anyway, the channel has launched a series called Zenith Run which is fun to look at given its retro-film aesthetic and all the handmade props:

Be warned, if you delve too deeply into their video archive, you might find yourself at your local Dollar Tree store picking up random objects with the intent of gluing them together.