I have never heard of them. I will look them up. If you go to my profile page ( which another member here did … to see if I was an “Ax Murderer” ) you will see a list of band’s I listen to.
Don’t believe I listed The Dead … I really dont care for most of their music.
If all else fails on the wiring front, shomebody over in Ships illuminated a man-o-war by using adhesive-backed copper tape, and used tiny bits of solder to fasten LEDs to same.
Just a thought.
Yep. That is also an option.
I am also considering using Evergreen u channel to run some wiring back. If you look at the actual movie prop you can see that they did something similar. Timmy posted an image of the interior. It runs front to back on both sides of the cabin ceiling. In the elctronics industry that is called raceway. It is used to cover wiring. There are two dome lights in the ceiling at the front of the cabin, and I want to recreate those. The delema is that the raceway does not connect to those in the prop. I could deviate on that, but not until I exhaust all my options. It’s a visual thing. I feel the raceway would take away from it. Another extreme option would be to drill a hole through the roof, cut a channel along the roof for the wiring, then backfill it closed. Similar to how I ran the fiber optics on the fins of the Seaview. It’s an extreme measure but one that I know will work.
If you liked that “What if” , Your gonna love this one…
Ther was also the “Interplanitary Drive”.
Then there’s this rather “fanciful” version used for the second generation of the Icarus.
Then there’s this … sorry …it’s as big as I could get it.
Or this…
But I believe “This one” was what we were Suppose to see in 1968.
Ahhhhh…
But now there are a L O T more question’s to be asked… L O L !
Cool stuff Tim. Too bad they didn’t stick with that design in the drawing. Very cool.
I was just scanning over the beginning of the movie and noticed this. Look at the right side of the ship time clock. It looks like the display collapsed. The Icarus is falling apart. No wonder why they crash landed.
Well… It’s bedtime for Bonzo…
Actually I just used a short piece of the same tape over the lead.
Timmy: Lol I was wondering if the USS Aperprise might come up!
Love those rendering, I had no idea anyone had put that much thought into the rest of the ship!
One thing I always wondered though, we don’t see much of an industial civilization by the apes and most of the scientists they did have were orangutans. So how on earth did the three chimps get the ship fueled and repaired enough to launch into orbit for ‘Escape’???
Bakster: Hmmm, actually with the ship in that bad a shape you might just cover the pinholes in the seats with little paper strips and paint them grey/silver.
Taylor: ‘This my chimpanzee friends is humanities greatest invention- duct tape!!!’
Hello Steve,
Just subscribed to this one and I am ready to be amazed yet again. Should be a good one, and I am sure I will be inspired.
Looking forward to this. [::DD0]
No kidding! [I]
Noted!
Hey Mark, glad you found this! At the least it should be entertaining! [;)]
Where am I on this:
I expect the seats to be painted by the weekend. Along with that, I hope to get some major progress done with the sanding and fitting of the hull. There will be a lot of work with that.
I ordered the resin nozzles last night. It looks like they are made to order, and they quote 4 weeks for delivery. The wait is okay. I have a lot of other things to do before I tackle that section.
I am looking forward to the fabricating. The windows will be the first thing.
I am putting some feelers out guys: I’d like to add instrumentation to the forward cabin. The kit comes with some molded instrumentation relief, but not much of it. And, I am not quite sure what I’d do with it. I want some of it lighted. I was thinking that I could add or convert this stuff to something like touch panels. If I can find instrumentation decals, in scale, I could apply it over clear styrene and then backlight it. Lighted consoles would dress things up nicely. Just spitballing here. If anyone has ideas about this-- please share. No rush. It will be a few months before I need to address this.
I have wondered that myself. The following picture is from Escape from the Planet of the Apes.
You will note that there are only 3 seat’s. The Icrius has 4, so who “redesigned” the cockpit. You will also see an overhead console, that wasn’t in the cockpit of the original.
Speaking of the cockpit, there are not a lot of good pictures of it. It appeares that the instrumentation is “Analog”… no screens of any kind.
I had two more picture’s to share … but my “Rock” decided to take a Qualude !
The ships clocks are digital, but they are not screens. And you are right. There are no screens. From what I have seen thus far, most of the dash is comprised of digital readouts, a few analog reel to reel recording devices, two gooseneck microphones, maybe some switches and lights. If I’d be striving for complete accuracy, I’d have to strip out entirely what MIM created. The instrumentation that they molded is not accurate at all. They created a representation of the ship. If I want to replicate the ships readouts… how would I do it in a way that it doesnt look like garbage. I’d have to make tiny custom decals I guess. If anyone knows how I can do that… I am all ears. If not, I’ll have to do what MIM did, and make a loosley based representation. How far do I want to take this?
I just took a close-up look at your picture of the kit’s cockpit. It’s not even close. Wow !
Anything you come up with will be an improvement !
Thats what I think too.
On a side note. You are finding some cool images, many that I have not seen. Kudos for digging these photos up.
Lastly. The chairs are painted with a fresh coat of black paint. Once that dries, I will mask and detail the metal parts with probably alclad silver aluminum.
My Badger 200 was giving me problems tonight. Plugged. I gave it a good cleaning and hopefully it stops being a pain in the “beep.” I should just switch back to my Anthem. I have less problem with that one.
I was having my banana. Then I found this build and all its attendant monkeying around. So, I thought; this looks like a project I should swing by and study more.
Congratulations on the work to date, it “apes” the movie ship pretty dang well. Lookin’ forward to the next instalment.
Wow! Been forever since I’ve seen any of the movies and I didn’t pay that much attention to the interior of the spacecraft. Guess they figured in the years between the movies we’d have forgotten what everything looked like!
Good luck with the interior Bakster, I think I’d just go with the general generic '60s futuristic look you were talking about.
Sounds right. Put some brightly colored MonkeyShines to bedazzle and bewilder any intruding apes. And maybe hang a pine tree air-freshener to the rearview mirror too. That rotting corpse is gonna be ripe. What more do you need? [clwn]
Lol. Hey Duster–thanks for stopping by! It is always nice to hear from another fellow ape. Keep eating them bananas. Good for the heart, or that’s what they say. Love the animation. [:D] I look forward to you swinging around.