NARIELA’S SPACESHIP BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS’ (1980) is a science fiction adventure film produced by Roger Corman / directed by Jimmy T Murakami

The film is based on ‘The Seven Saumrai’ / ‘The Magnificent Seven’. Made in the wake of the phenomenal success of ‘Star Wars’. It was produced by the master of low-budget film-making Roger Corman.

The film featured several distinct spaceships representing the rag tag group of mercenaries enlisted to protect the peaceful planet Akir. Nariela is Shad’s first recruit when he visits Dr Hephaestus. This is small, single seat ship.

Like all of the spacecraft in the film this was designed by James Cameron and the admirable visual effects were handled by miniature experts Dennis and Robert Skotak.

As the film was a low budget affair, I have tried to represent a likely manufacturer from the time. ‘Life-Like’ Hobby Kits was a small outfit who produced, models of ships, galleons, civil war cannons and aircraft as well as dinosaur kits. (the latter were not patch on ’Aurora’s Prehistoric Scenes). This is all ‘what if..’ and a bit of fun, as such I am not 100% concerned with potential accuracy, and I think this is credible enough.

I have avoided showing any scales, as this imaginary kit series would be sized to fit-the-box, with models being in the 6” - 8” size range, making this kit something like 1/32nd scale..

All spacecraft designed by James Cameron

Visual Effects by Dennis Skotak Robert Skotak