Finished this one up just in time for a show this weekend!
Moebius Models 1/350 Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I used Paragrafix Pod interior with custom decals and lighting. Even lit 2 Pods (cast in clear) and added manipulator arms from some leftover PE ship railing!
Love it, curious how long is she at 1/350?
Brings me back to the first time I watched Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”. I was in awe seeing those magnificent models. The Space Wheel, the Pan Am shuttle, the Lunar Shuttle, the Moon Bus and as here, the wonderful and very slick Discovery (also seen in “2010: The Year We Make Contact”) and its pods.
Unfortunately all these models by Moebius are a tiny bit too expensive for my pockets, just like the newest Polar Lights large Enterprise (especially if ordered with its lighting kit).
I too have Paragrafix items, but those are just to accurize some of my Star Trek models.
Very nice build veedubb67. As said, it brought me back to 1968 when I was just 12 years old.
Thank you for sharing this beauty.
Joe, about 17" long (perfect for my mancave).
Patrick, this one is currently going for $40 - $50…
I know but alas I live in Switzerland and ordering it in the U.S. would cost me a bundle in Shipping and Customs trafficking. In Germany it does cost 224.50 € ($258.05), and this for 1:144 scale one.
So, as you can see it is Mission Impossible for me. Lucky you who doesn’t have to care for huge shipping & handling costs.
That is fantastic work on your Discovery and pods. I can just hear Dave saying “Open the pod bay doors, HAL”.
2001: A Space Odyssey is such a fantastic movie. I was only 1 when it came out in 68, but recently had an opportunity to see it on a big screen. The difference between television viewings and a theatrical viewing cannot be understated. The visuals jump off the screen. And the problem with TV is that you are typically in your home with distractions; in the theater, no distractions. I was never so fully immersed in the story than I was in that theater.
2010 is a vastly underrated movie. While it was more “commercial” than its predecessor, it did tell Arthur C Clarke’s original story very well. I’d love a kit of the Leonov from that movie.
Wow nice, not too huge, considerably shorter than an Iowa BB at 350
Agree on 2010 being underrated - but I totally get why it is. I can’t tell you how disappointed I was with it when I first saw it in theater. It had none of the artistic atmosphere or pace of the original and I despised it. I finally gave it a second chance 5 years ago after seeing a clip of it on youTube. Gotta tell you, nothing sets you up for liking a decent movie more than despising it for 30+ years because it wasn’t what you had expected. Without the baggage of my earlier expectations, I was able to appreciate it for what it actually was instead of what it wasn’t, and it is a solid sci-fi film. Heck think I’ll watch it again 
The director, Peter Hyams, was wise to not try to duplicate 2001. He would have failed spectacularly had he attempted that. What he did do is deliver a satisfying story that resolved most of the questions the first film left viewers with. 2010 also had the shadow of Star Wars with those films’ well-known and still very recent at the time of 2010’s release in 1984 sound and visual effects looming over it. That led to the sound of spacecraft engines in the void of space, as opposed to the reality that 2001 depicted.
I get why one might despise that movie upon first viewing, but I’m glad you gave it a second chance and now see the good movie that it was.
Same here. If I were a bit wealthier I would buy the entire “2001” stock of Moebius models, but alas I have to rely to a meager pension which barely allows me to every now and then to afford to buy some tools, paint or tools and they too have risen in price in recent years.
Oh well, I cannot blame it on anyone and I already have plenty to build as it is… and yet…
Unfortunately I don’t have anyone left to offer at least one as a gift to me, since all my friends and former work colleagues all live across the big pond or distant from me and like me, they are also retired people and are not utterly wealthy, but at least I have found some right here and I am fully satisfied with their comments and discussions with me.
This to me is by far more important than anything else.
I didn’t like 2010 when I saw it in the theater, but have since changed my mind after watching it on TV many years later.
For me, it is just down to the limitations of VFX of the time. I think the story is fine and the movie does capture some of the feel of 2001.
And HAL’s redemption at the end of the movie is something that moves me way more than it did the first time I watched it.
Regarding the models, I really wanted to get the space station, but I could not get myself to buy something that was the size of two car steering wheels.
Unfortunately, we’re in the same boat due to the current administration’s tariffs/consumer taxes. Most of the models I order from Japan and Hong Kong have doubled/tripled in cost and shipping over the past 6 months…
Stupid restrictive policies which just advantage the wealthy while we are left stranded behind.
This is not a wise decision and actually damages both the sellers, as well as the customers.
The sellers because they get lesser orders altogether, hence if their store is small enough forces them to completely shut down, and the customers, because it limits their buying power and therefore damages many markets around the world, including the United States.
I wonder if politicians ever use their gray cells in what is called a brain before issuing such demented laws and restrictions.
BTW, I just received a cancellation notice from a Chinese seller of a hot wire cutting machine due to this very problem. He was very apologetic and polite and regretted not to be able to follow up with my order, and since I wanted to buy it from Amazon, even they sent me an apologetic message about it.
As you can see, Washington and Co. have managed to ruin markets everywhere and instead of damaging either Russia or China, are just damaging the otherwise well functioning of the rest of the world.
My compliments to those knuckleheads that I would just send to Mars without a spacesuit.
Who needs such nincompoops? Not we, the customers, for certain.
Thanks Rob (Iwata Padawan) for showing me the brotherhood of the stranded.
I am sure though that things will soon change, or so I hope.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life as Eric Idle once sang… 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAzwji5Cfmk
My same problem here since I already must calculate every inch of my apartment to make at least a couple of dioramas fit the space. Any further project will be a vignette and my Sci-Fi models will only take the space they can have, without any further embellishments, like background scenes. I also own a ton of WWII and Desert Storm aircraft in 1/72 scale and some are really huge, just like the B-52G Stratofortress and the Handley-Page Victor Mk II for instance. Having also to still assemble the Launch Tower of the Space Shuttle and the 1/144 scale International Space Station will create a new problem in size.
You will certainly understand that I too cannot afford the additional “2001” collection in any scale they may come on or for the price offered here in Europe (just too expensive) and so I better give myself content with what I already have and it is plenty, forgetting the rest.
This said though, I will always admire other people’s depiction of those wonderful models.
Perhaps the day will come when such models will be re-released at a bargain price, but by then I will already be gone where everyone else has gone before me and so I won’t worry anymore since I will already be admiring Saturn (not Jupiter) at light speed and say: “My God, it’s full of stars…”, and no, my name won’t be Dave, but Pat and I will be happy and at peace.
