HMS CHURCHILL SPACE SHUTTLE from the film ‘LIFEFORCE’ (1985) directed by TOBE HOOPER

Lifeforce is a 1985 horror film featuring vampire-like aliens. Adapted from the novel ‘Space Vampires’ by Colin Wilson.

The film opens with the unlikely European space craft the HMS Churchil (in the narration) or Winston Churchill (insignia on the spacecraft itself) investigating Halley’s comet. This picture shows the ship approaching the tail of the comet as seen in the film.

The space shuttle is an original design, based on the contemporary orbiter. It appears to be about 20% longer than the real space shuttle with canards and a large solar panel array that can be deployed from the cargo bay.

I imagined this ‘What If’ kit as Revell kit, as they already had a number of Space Shuttle and Space related kits in their line.

Visual Effects supervised by John Dykstra

Link to video ‘What If #11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWE8MpiFYWY&t=442s