50's-60's sci-fi chicks

Gmanx · Jan 2007

A friend of mine is re-designing an old project in the style of 'Barbarella' and pulp sci-fi covers from the 1950's (all scantily clad girls in skin-tight spacesuits with fishbowl-helmets).

Anyone seen any good sites for ref pics??

MoP · Jan 2007

http://www.geocities.com/buckrogers_nz/wallpapers.html?20074

Buck Rogers (!) was the first thing that sprang to mind, there's a few pics of that woman who was the pilot in the spandex suit and big helmet, might be a start.

Paul Jaquays · Jan 2007

Suggest to your friend that he do Image searches using the names of popular science fiction magazines from the era ... like Astounding Science Fiction, or Amazing Science Fiction, etc. Also look up the work of leading artists from the period ... Kelly Freas is a good starting point.

Mark Dygert · Jan 2007

I had these two in my ref bookmarks, glad to see they are still up.
- Lots of pulp covers.
http://www.oldsfbooks.com/pulpgal.html

- Pulp Pin-Ups
http://grapefruitmoongallery.com/

As suggested try tracking down a few Pulp artists like;
- Virgil Finlay
Worked on Weird Tales and Amazing Stories, pretty well know for drawing the ladies.

- Margaret Brundage
Her work wasn't as much Sci-Fi since she only worked on Weird Tales a gothic fantasy mag. But she did draw a lot of scantily clad or not clad at all girls, and she pretty much nailed "the look" and should be good ref.

- Frank R Paul
http://www.frankwu.com/paul1.html
Not much in the way of Iconic Pulp chicks but searching for his stuff could stir up something...

The bookstore at the pulpzone.com has some good recommendations, too bad main url is broken, the site might not be up for much longer.
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0256503202/Default.htm#gallery2

- A small Gallery of Galaxie covers.
http://www.noosfere.com/showcase/galaxie_1_page_2.htm

I was surprised how infrequent the iconic Sci-Fi chick actually pops up in these kinds of searches =/

hawken · Jan 2007

also space channel 5 part 2

Gmanx · Jan 2007

Many thanks to everyone. Hopefully someday the friend in question will sign up here at polycount, and post what he does with these refs.

In the meantime - thanks again!!

Husch · Jan 2007

Couldn´t resist, have to post these links, they are so hot:

http://www.jamesart.com/venus.html

http://www.thepinupfiles.com/images/KBS-Bawidamann-OneRudeRide-LG.jpg

http://www.thepinupfiles.com/images/KBS-Bawidamann-SpaceGirl-LG.jpg

Honolulu_Ninja · Jan 2007

Gmanx: Haha, that description fits like a glove to one of the character i'm working on right now.

I don't have the character on this computer. Although, here's her sidekick Sputnik, the spacedoggie!

Gmanx · Jan 2007

Haha, nice one Honolulu_Ninja. Good doggie!!

We found some more ref too, including these:

http://www.darkrising.co.uk/Nancy.htm

http://www.jamesart.com/Photos/p143Averella.html

http://www.jamesart.com/Photos/pSpaceCadet.html

Those last two are from 'www.jamesart.com' who also did the 'Agent Venus' figure Husch linked to. His Photography section has some awesome reference of girls with, shall we say, 'Pulp' figures..:)

50's-60's sci-fi chicks

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