In 1995, I scratch-built a model spaceship for an independent comedy film called ‘The Best Movie Ever Made’. The ship is the S.S. Carol Channing, piloted by space adventurer Buck Fifty. Sadly, the model itself is long gone, and the only record I have of it is a roll of godawful lousy photos I took just before I delivered it to the studio. (And good luck finding a copy of that movie.) So I thought, why not recreate it in CAD? It can’t be a perfect recreation, because the reference material is so bad, but I remember a lot of it, and I could make it close enough.
If you look closely (or maybe it isn’t necessary to look that closely), you can see some of the household items I used in its construction. Soup cans, yogurt cups, ping pong balls, various containers and fasteners, and cut-up sheets of cardboard. The engines even lit up using headlight bulbs. I only had a couple of days to complete it start to finish, so it was a quickie, without any design going into it ahead of time.
Now that I have a CAD model, maybe it can live again.
Built in Fusion 360, and converted to a mesh and textured in 3DS Max.