The earliest kit I know of that used that nose cone--or one very similar to it--was Estes' Odyssey (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/77est024.html ), which first appeared in their 1977 catalog. The Odyssey was--judging by the "real" vehicle's description in the catalog listing--part of Estes' "Star Trek canon" that began with their licensed Starship Enterprise and Klingon Battle Cruiser kits in 1975 (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...75/75est22.html ), and was continued in 1976 with their Alien Invader (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/76est028.html ), Photon Disruptor, and U.S.S. Atlantis kits (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/76est024.html ). (Their Andromeda [see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...5/75est24h.html ], another starship kit that also first appeared in the 1975 Estes catalog, may have been inspired by this, although to me, it "felt" more like it was from the SF universe in which "The Starlost" occurred.)

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