My personal 1:48 EAGLE TRANSPORTER pulled out of storage. I had acquired another cargo container and air brushed it with the red rescue stripes so I could swap out with the regular cargo container.
So I did.
Also the cockpit is lit with my own light set up.
The engine bells and landing gear support are aluminum.
That’s out of this world well done.
I used to love Space 1999 when I was a kid and had a diecast Eagle.
Always remember one episode of a big jelly monster with tentacles that was on moonbase Alpha,scared the crap out of me.
That looks amazing! Is this a kit, or did you build/3D print some of it yourself?
Funny timing too — just today I ran across a YouTube video where somebody had built one of these as an RC model that could actually fly. Very cool to see one in the air.
Fantastic build of an iconic sci-fi spacecraft! I think the Eagle easily makes it to the Top Ten list of the most famous and recognizable fictional spaceships.
I used to watch the TV show as a kid and particularly remember the episode where they encountered a spaceship graveyard where a big, brown monster with tentacles and a glowing eye showed up and began devouring the crew members. That was the scariest episode of Space 1999 to me.
I rewatched the episode on YouTube recently and found it much less terrifying. I think the headline news scares me more today.
The thing that freaked me out the most as a kid was the way the monster ate its victims - it drew them into its mouth using its tentacles, screams would follow, then a greasy looking skeleton would slide out like it was on a drawer.
Watching as an adult, I realized the slide-out victim was more of a limitation of the filming budget rather than some unnerving design choice.