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Close Encounters of the Third Kind was one of those fantastic films that inspired the ways of film making today! Stephen Kundrat did a magnificent job in creating one of the aliens seen toward the ending of that film… “Puck”. It is speculated that “Puck” was Richard Dreyfuss’s character transformed for space travel… especially after Steven Spielberg released his “Director’s Cut” showing Dreyfuss getting some sort of shining light showered upon him from within the alien vessel just before “Puck” emerges from the ship to signal Francois Truffaut the infamous sign language for the 5 musical notes we all know so well from the film. My babble of the film aside…. THIS sculpt of “Puck” is fantastic… and graces the Karl Southcott Collection.

I have the great pleasure of introducing another great talent to this Gallery… artist Stephen Kundrat of Haunted Pen Studio! Commissioned by known collector, and Radio Personality Karl Southcott, Stephen did amazing work on this rare piece from James Cameron and Roger Corman’s Battle Beyond the Stars! Even though the film was thought of as a flop, this design of vessel is what everyone remembers best of that film. I even believe that Cameron may be remaking this film the way he thought it should have been made to begin with! The hero ship model “Nell” that you see here is such a rare design to find anywhere and this may be one of the few now in existence today...