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ARA Press
785 Jefferson Avenue Livermore, CA 94550 |
On this page are the books and source materials for the avid scale builder, or just someone with a keen interest in rockets and space flight.
Our premier product is Spaceship Handbook . This is the standard reference for the NAR "Concept Scale: event and a source of enjoyment for those with a general interest in the history of the spaceship as a social icon.
For those of you with a little wall space, Spaceship Handbook's gorgeous cover artwork is available in small poster form, both unsigned and signed by the artist. Jon Rogers also has a new version of his Ad Astra per Aspera poster, as well as tons of other neat stuff, available on his website, RogersRocketships.com .
Last January we finally introduced The Saucer Fleet , a project six years in the making. It gives the Spaceship Handbook treatment to 12 of your favorite flying saucers from Movies, TV and other popular entertainment. Check out what the boffo reviews are all about.
If you are looking for any of Peter Alway's works, such as Rockets of the World and its annual supplements , we have some good news. Please check the Saturn Press section for the latest updates.
We also have several issues of the French Sci-Fi modeling magazine Dixième Planète (Tenth Planet). Their Special #1 covers Star Wars figurines, and Special #2 was published in conjunction with a special exhibit of models celebrating the film 2001: A Space Odyssey's title year. There are also a select number of standard issues with cover stories that will be of interest to the Sci-Fi modeler. Please note that the publisher, Historie & Collections in Paris, has discontinued this magazine. We have bought the entire remaining stock of the 2001 issue and a number of the others, but once they're gone, they're gone.
A new addition to our line is a series of actual modeler's guides from CultTVman . The first two that we're offering are the "Ultimate Modeling Guide" and the "Starfleet Assembly Manuals."
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These two books are our home-grown offerings. Together they represent over a decade of research and toil (but very enjoyable toil) to bring you the history of the spaceship in our culture. |
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 Spaceship Handbook A history of the Spaceship in the 20th Century covering Theoretical, Fictional and Cancelled programs. |
 The Saucer Fleet Extended biographies of the most famous flying saucers in popular culture from the '50s and '60s. |
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Peter Alway's Saturn Press has been shut down since early-2007, but we are licensed to reproduce a number of the Saturn Press booklets. Currently this is all of the annual Supplements to Rockets of the World plus Soviet Missiles . We're working on expanding that to include US Cold War Missiles, Scale Bash, V2, etc. Regarding Rockets of the World itself, the NAR did not want this valuable resource to be lost, so they took over production. ARA Press is the first (and so far only) distributor, outside of the NAR. We are working on some projects to publish other Alway materials, but nothing firm yet. Unfortunately, Retro Rockets has sold out and there are no plans to reprint it. |
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 Rockets of the World Fourth Edition The standard modeler's reference for real space boosters and sounding rockets. |
 Twelve Soviet Missiles of the Cold War Historical summaries with dimensioned and color-keyed drawings of twelve Soviet missiles from the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's. |
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There are six annual supplements to Rockets Of The World. Each one contains all-new subjects with no overlap between the Supplements or the book. Each Supplement includes historical summaries, photographs, and dimensioned and color-keyed drawings. |
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While everyone appreciates the wealth of data available here that can be used to design scratch-built models, some prefer actual guides for techniques and tips when building kits. Steve Iverson, administrator of the popular CultTVman.com website, has collected 17 of the build articles for Sci-Fi kits from his site (all done by expert modelers) and collected them together in his Ultimate Modelers' Guide , a large format softcover. Illustrations are mostly B&W with two color "gallery" sections of the completed models. Steve has also published the Star Fleet Assembly Manuals , a combined collection of all three SFAM's by Paul Newitt. These show how to improve all of the Star Trek kits out there with improved techniques and upgrades such as working lighting. |
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 Ultimate Modelers Guide A large format softcover with seventeen build articles for Sci-Fi kits. |
 StarFleet Assembly Manuals A reprint of three manuals with additional new material. |
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 Special #1 Star Wars |
 Special #2 2001: A Space Odyssey |
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 Issue #5 Star Trek |
 Issue #13 Thunderbirds |
 Issue #14 Lord of the Rings |
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We currently offer The Next Shuttle (2nd Edition) by Dave Ketchledge. Dave has a new CD reference in development on dynamic stability. It will be a combination of text and software tools on disc, and should be ready sometime this fall. We are also negotiating with Scott Lowther to distribute his Aerospace Projects Review series and other reference materials he publishes on CD. Stay Tuned. |
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 The next Shuttle Descriptions of dozens of rocket planes and reusable shuttles. |
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 Spaceship Handbook Cover Artwork A high-quality poster of Spaceship Handbook's gorgeous cover artwork. |
 Ad Astra per Aspera Artwork A high-quality work of art by Jon Rogers of the spaceships featured in the Spaceship Handbook. |