The Liabe must be considered as the "Millennium Falcon" of the Rising Sun. This ship comes from a movie and later a TV serie called Message from Space, which is a Japanese program that was aired soon after Star Wars, in 1977. The movie had a far more succes than ANH because it appeared on screen BEFORE the movie of G. Lucas !
Concerning this model, it is the original ship used as both in the movie and the TV serie. I was asked to restaure it in it's original condition. When the guy came up I first believed it was a piece of junk ! I had to build and repair the whole model… for my pleasure ! Enjoy this piece of SF History that is unknown by most of the fans.
