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I grew up watching Space Ghost, and I always loved Space Ghost and his ship, the fabled "Phantom Cruiser." This ship looked great, and it had everything! It could fire every beam weapon you could think of: Power Beams, Force Beams, Tractor Beams, Freeze Rays, Heat Rays, . . . you name it. It was way ahead of its time, in terms of Sci-fi space ships. It had defensive energy shields. It had an FTL capability, (I think they called it "Hyper-speed.") It even had a cloaking device, (which they called "Inviso-Power.") Well, maybe some of the terminology was a bit juvenile, but as a kid, I just ate it up. You just had to love the Phantom Cruiser. The design of the Phantom Cruiser changed and evolved a bit over the years, but I decided to build the classic original design. Since they usually only showed the Phantom Cruiser from one or two different angles, there wasn't a lot of reference material to use in putting this model together. But I did my best to be faithful to the original design. The basic design (vaguely reminiscent of a falcon) is wonderfully sleek, and has tons of attitude. I only took one real liberty with the design. The original design really seems to have paper-thin wings, and lacks any kind of engine exhaust, so I thickened the wing root a bit to add a subtle exhaust slots to the back of the wings. There is a similar slot at the front of the wing roots. This might be an intake, a reverse exhaust port, or a navigational deflector. Normally, I wouldn't be a fan of a painting a ship yellow and orange, but this design really popped off of the bright blue spacescapes that they featured in the colorful galaxy that Hanna-Barbera had created for Space Ghost.

Description
I grew up watching Space Ghost, and I always loved Space Ghost and his ship, the fabled "Phantom Cruiser." This ship looked great, and it had everything! It could fire every beam weapon you could think of: Power Beams, Force Beams, Tractor Beams, Freeze Rays, Heat Rays, . . . you name it. It was way ahead of its time, in terms of Sci-fi space ships. It had defensive energy shields. It had an FTL capability, (I think they called it "Hyper-speed.") It even had a cloaking device, (which they called "Inviso-Power.") Well, maybe some of the terminology was a bit juvenile, but as a kid, I just ate it up. You just had to love the Phantom Cruiser. The design of the Phantom Cruiser changed and evolved a bit over the years, but I decided to build the classic original design. Since they usually only showed the Phantom Cruiser from one or two different angles, there wasn't a lot of reference material to use in putting this model together. But I did my best to be faithful to the original design. The basic design (vaguely reminiscent of a falcon) is wonderfully sleek, and has tons of attitude. I only took one real liberty with the design. The original design really seems to have paper-thin wings, and lacks any kind of engine exhaust, so I thickened the wing root a bit to add a subtle exhaust slots to the back of the wings. There is a similar slot at the front of the wing roots. This might be an intake, a reverse exhaust port, or a navigational deflector. Normally, I wouldn't be a fan of a painting a ship yellow and orange, but this design really popped off of the bright blue spacescapes that they featured in the colorful galaxy that Hanna-Barbera had created for Space Ghost.