Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Book of Model Space Ships (1952)


Wallis Rigby was the guru of "punch-out" books. He designed hundreds of paper models designed to be punched out and built. The Book of Model Space Ships is a great example of his work. Rather than show pages of unbuilt silver paper models, I choose the back cover that shows how you could fly your ships (while wearing your helmet and ray-gun!)



I think this 1951 book was also Wallis Rigby's work, although I have never seen (or been able to afford) one.





5 comments:

  1. What a wonderful-looking book! I'd imagine Tom Corbett is credited somewhere inside, right? Judging from the cover, it could almost be a Tom Corbett tie-in.

    -- Michael S.

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  2. Nope, Tom Corbett is not credited although you can see that is where a lot of the design ideas came from. After all it was just children's books, few cared as long as something sold.

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  3. I imagine they cared over at Rockhill Productions, though! Well, perhaps they had some deal worked out between them, despite the lack of credits.

    -- Michael S.

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  4. Go to rigbypapermodels.com to order a PDF of this and many other WWII era "punch out" paper model books!

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  5. cool blog friend!

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