Nantucket Sound Kit bashed into Star Trek TOS “Edith Keeler Must Die!”

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Nantucket Sound Kit bashed into Star Trek TOS “Edith Keeler Must Die!”

This Nantucket Sound has been modified due to actions of Dr. McCoy jumping through the time portal of the Guardian of Forever. What Spock sees in his little cathode ray tube includes these pictures of the aftermath of the NAZI takeover of the East Coast. Martha’s Vineyard is now Eva Braun’s Vineyard; Nantucket Sound is now the Polka Music Sound.

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My God man, they turned it into a rocket! No guard rails with these Nazis, just the big guns from Navarone. All the Fuhrer asked was if it could carry bombs. The horror continues with a mix of German, English and what could best be described as DRM Slang. The V2 splintered paint scheme and woman on the moon decals indicate Von Braun is still around. The DRM decals live on despite any changes in the time line. What looks to be just a jagged camouflage design on the light house roof turns into a National Socialist aerial recognition banner when viewed from above.

Ricardo Montalban may have asked “What have they done with my car?” Jim Flis will ask “What have they done with my kit?” No Corinthian Leather here, just the smell of burned out D12-3s. Jim, you must fix the time line! Yes Jim, Edith Keeler must die.

McCoy tells Kirk that he could have saved her. “Do you know what you just did?" he says. Spock adds quietly, "He knows, Doctor. He knows."

In the City on the Edge of Forever the Guardian says “Many such journeys are possible.” But for the time being let’s just get the hell out of here!

In addition to the kit I just used some styrene for the guns and left over pods from the Estes EPM kit for the bombs. A few bits of balsa for the gun mounts and bomb fins. Swastika is striping tape, decals from 2 Mini DRM kits. Excelsior BT 60 V2 decals and some FW 190 D aircraft decals.

Here is "Edith Keeler must Die" after the army man modification to the nose cone. Is it really a good idea to glue army men to your nose cone? What does the RSO say?

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Nantucket Sound Kit bashed into Star Trek TOS “Edith Keeler Must Die!”

This Nantucket Sound has been modified due to actions of Dr. McCoy jumping through the time portal of the Guardian of Forever. What Spock sees in his little cathode ray tube includes these pictures of the aftermath of the NAZI takeover of the East Coast. Martha’s Vineyard is now Eva Braun’s Vineyard; Nantucket Sound is now the Polka Music Sound.

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My God man, they turned it into a rocket! No guard rails with these Nazis, just the big guns from Navarone. All the Fuhrer asked was if it could carry bombs. The horror continues with a mix of German, English and what could best be described as DRM Slang. The V2 splintered paint scheme and woman on the moon decals indicate Von Braun is still around. The DRM decals live on despite any changes in the time line. What looks to be just a jagged camouflage design on the light house roof turns into a National Socialist aerial recognition banner when viewed from above.

Ricardo Montalban may have asked “What have they done with my car?” Jim Flis will ask “What have they done with my kit?” No Corinthian Leather here, just the smell of burned out D12-3s. Jim, you must fix the time line! Yes Jim, Edith Keeler must die.

McCoy tells Kirk that he could have saved her. “Do you know what you just did?" he says. Spock adds quietly, "He knows, Doctor. He knows."

In the City on the Edge of Forever the Guardian says “Many such journeys are possible.” But for the time being let’s just get the hell out of here!

In addition to the kit I just used some styrene for the guns and left over pods from the Estes EPM kit for the bombs. A few bits of balsa for the gun mounts and bomb fins. Swastika is striping tape, decals from 2 Mini DRM kits. Excelsior BT 60 V2 decals and some FW 190 D aircraft decals.

Here is "Edith Keeler must Die" after the army man modification to the nose cone. Is it really a good idea to glue army men to your nose cone? What does the RSO say?

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You sir, are one sick puppy!! (and I mean that in the good way). :y:

Never ceases to amaze me what comes out of your head.

Cheers!!
 
You sir, are one sick puppy!! (and I mean that in the good way). :y:

Never ceases to amaze me what comes out of your head.

Cheers!!

I have heard the same comment but they all stayed around to see the launch, so much for their chastity. Just finding an excuse to dress up a kit with nasty yet cool Kraut decals. The V2 and DRM may be favorites but a bit nasty, and that is what makes it fun. I hid the rocket and told the hard core TOS fans the name, when I pulled it out of the truck they got it at once. Non TOS fans take awhile, but they all eventually remember the episode.
 
“City on the Edge of Forever” was written by Harlan Ellison and like virtually everything he was involved in he hated the final results, even though this episode won several awards and is considered one of the top five episodes of the original “Star Trek” series.

Now if you had ever seen “The Starlost”, a TV show of which Ellison was the executive creator; well there he had good reason to be mortified with the final results.

And if you want to read and have a good laugh try Ben Bova’s “The Starcrossed” (Swords!!! You want swords!!?? I’ll give you *$@)^$ swords!!!) a parody of the events leading up to “The Starlost” though as Ellison tells it Bova got it more right than wrong.

And if you want to read what Ellison had originally in mind for “The Starlost” try and rustle up a copy of “Phoenix Without Ashes".

And on topic; how did you paint that camo pattern?
 
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Painting the jagged camo pattern is real easy. First a coat of gloss off white, then some Testors tan brush painted on by hand - no tape for a quick job. Then hand paint the green. Put on decals then a light coat of Testors matte.
 
Hand painting!!

And here I thought I was going to get a comprehensive tutorial on the secrets of cutting and masking and all that rot.

Any chimpanzee with a paint brush can hand paint; and probably do a better job at it than I could.

Not that I’m comparing you to a chimpanzee that would just be wrong.

Not that there is anything wrong with chimps; we wouldn’t want to get PETA involved here by denigrating chimpanzees. . .
I’ll just go away now.

Nice job however it was done.
 
Thanks. The red and gray are hand brush painted too. No need for all the pain and suffering, just slop the gloss paint on in heavy coats, let dry, put on the decals, then cover with matte. Didn't even use nice brushes. The Testors was even a bit old and thick. I think I bought that grey back in '96. Given enough Chimps with typewriters eventually you will get Shakespeare, at least that is what my rocket scientist friends say.

Can't put in too much effort on a rocket subject to banning due to non PC content and misappropriation of goose stepping army men.
 
You have men stepping on geese?
And here I thought I was in trouble with PETA for my chimp reference.

But seriously; have you actually had PC problems with that rocket?
 
Lets just say I wait until most of the minivans are out of the lot before I bring this one out (mom-mom looks can kill). The "you're a sick puppy" phase has been used. But I thought that was just for gluing army men to the top. I did put my finger over the woman on the moon sticker when showing it to a teenage boy. There is a guy who glued a bunch of copper BBs to the top of his peach colored nose cone so I call his rocket "Fuzzy Nipple." When I see that rocket on the pad I then know I can bring out Edith Keeler Must Die. The old fart Star Trek TOS guys love it. The NEOCONS love it and the Bleeding Heart Liberal is a TOS fan and has seen so much of my Kraut stuff fly I think I have desensitized him, and he is the one flying the Fuzzy Nipple.
 
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I simply LOVE the creativity folks put into some of these rockets! And when it's a FlisKits kit, WELL! :)


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Yeah but she looks just like that evil witch on Dynasty.

Edith Keeler was the only woman in time or the universe that could tame the shrew that was James Tiberius Kirk. All of his male chauvinist machismo went out the window when she was around. She stood up to him and made him into a sensitive little puppy, incapable of stopping the Klingons. Therefore she had to die, so Kirk could go one being Kirk for another two seasons and history was made right.

I didn't watch Die-nasty but I think her Anti-Edith Keeler character did in a lot of macho men as well.
 
As the kit gets older and with many CA field repairs it has now become quite strong. It takes a licking and keeps on ticking. The plastic guys on top no longer want to come loose. The interior and chute now have a nice coating of soot. The small fins are hardened and can take the punishment. The paper cone has many battle scars and has a nice patina. Eats up any spare D12 3s. Likes F12 composites for lots of black smoke. Good one to launch at the end of the day. Thanks to Paul for the pictures.


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"Ah say, boy, 'at's one fiiine contraption ya got there!"

Even a touch of Caribbean piracy going on there, in case the Nazis can't get it done...."Aaaaar, break out the cutlasses and grapplin' hooks, ye scurvy dogs!"
 
"Ah say, boy, 'at's one fiiine contraption ya got there!"

Even a touch of Caribbean piracy going on there, in case the Nazis can't get it done...."Aaaaar, break out the cutlasses and grapplin' hooks, ye scurvy dogs!"

A Pirate themed Nantucket Sound would be cool. A nice Caribbean look flying the Jolly Rodger!
 
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