Martin Bower

Martin Bower
Born	1952 (age 63–64)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Special effects artist and model maker
Years active	1969–current
Known for	Alien (1979) Space: 1999 (1975–78)

Martin Bower (born 1952)^[1] is a model maker and designer of special effects miniatures for both film and television. His credits include the television series Space: 1999 (1975-8) and the films Alien (1979), Flash Gordon (1980) and Outland (1981). He has a long-standing professional relationship with special effects director Brian Johnson.

Notable Designs

Space:1999

Mark IX Hawk model as seen in the episode "War Games"
Ultra Probe model as seen in the episode "Dragon's Domain"
Laser Tank model as seen in the episode "Infernal Machine"
Super Swift model as seen in the episodes "The Bringers of Wonder, Part One" and "The Bringers of Wonder, Part Two"
Voyager One model as seen in the episode "Voyager's Return"

References

↑ Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century

External links

Martin Bower's Model World - comprehensive website of Bower's work
Martin Bower at the Internet Movie Database

Space: 1999

Characters

Vehicles

Episodes

Series 1	"Breakaway" "Matter of Life and Death" "Black Sun" "Ring Around the Moon" "Earthbound" "Another Time, Another Place" "Missing Link" "Guardian of Piri" "Force of Life" "The Last Sunset" "Voyager's Return" "Collision Course" "The Full Circle" "War Games" "The Last Enemy" "The Troubled Spirit" "The Infernal Machine" "Mission of the Darians" "Dragon's Domain" "The Testament of Arkadia"

Series 2	"The Metamorph" "One Moment of Humanity" "All That Glisters" "Journey to Where" "The Taybor" "The Mark of Archanon" "Brian the Brain" "New Adam, New Eve" "Catacombs of the Moon" "The AB Chrysalis" "Seed of Destruction" "The Beta Cloud" "Space Warp" "The Bringers of Wonder": Part 1 / Part 2 "The Lambda Factor" "The Seance Spectre" "Devil's Planet" "The Dorcons"