Title: Re: Space 1999 Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: elmayerle on November 11, 2013, 02:22:57 AM
Good reference site. I'll wager we could come up with some plausible and interesting alternate modules for the Eagles.
Title: Re: Space 1999 Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: raafif on November 11, 2013, 04:58:38 AM
as per my proposed model build ... (http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/E4.png)
OR am I really going to do this one ??? >:D ........
following the "Great Accident", resulting in the moon moving out of Earth's orbit & drifting off, Moon-base Alpha was left to its own devices to survive. Over the next few years they had the usual malfunctions in their equipment & with very few spares at hand, made do with what they had. Eagle Transporter 3 suffered a major fire in the cockpit area rendering it unrepairable & so damaging it that the crew-pod was no longer able to hold an atmosphere. Unable to bring themselves to park Eagle-3 for parts just yet, the engineers decided to scavenge the crew-pod from the Falcon Lander that had failed to launch from the 1985 Moon-landing due to a fuel-pump failure. Even though it still contained the bodies of the two astronauts that were condemned to a slow death & was considered as sacred as a war grave, they appreciated that Alpha's situation justified such a move. The complete Falcon was retrieved and the astronauts buried in the landing crater - a simple monument was built over them. The lower Falcon stage was stripped of everything usable & the upper, crew section was fully refurbished with new & 2nd-hand parts. A jury-rig stystem of controls gave the pilots equally good control as a standard Eagle though her front-end didn't look anything like standard now .....
It may look a bit like a New York subway-car but as they say "form follows function".
Title: Re: Space 1999 Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: Kerick on November 11, 2013, 07:58:24 AM
I always thought the crew section looked too streamlined for a space craft and not streamlined enough for a craft that might fly in an atmosphere. I like your version much better.
Title: Re: Space 1999 Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: elmayerle on November 11, 2013, 10:05:02 AM
I keep thinking of a center module, crewed or un-crewed, with multiple planar sensor arrays arranged around it (likely just clearing the ground on the bottom) for intensive sensor sweeps. A crewed one could do initial data processing and analysis there before sending it back to base via datalink; the other version would be directly datalinked to the base.
Title: Re: Space 1999 Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: raafif on November 23, 2013, 01:39:44 PM
Space 1999 guys been watching Star Trek ! (http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/091/9/b/the_2013_eagle_design_by_chrisofedf-d3cxs53.jpg)
Title: Re: Space 1999 Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on November 24, 2013, 02:16:39 AM
Wicked! :)
Title: Re: Space 1999 Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: jschmus on November 25, 2013, 11:30:35 AM
From Starships of the Universe on Facebook: (https://scontent-b-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/971320_613333468713555_2110813069_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Space 1999 Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: The Big Gimper on December 19, 2013, 07:25:02 PM
Inbox review of the re-released Eagle from MPC/Round 2 here at Cybermodeler (http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/mpc/kit_mpc_0791.shtml).
Title: Re: Space 1999 Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 22, 2013, 05:09:31 AM
Eagle Fighter (Heavy, removable weapons pod with trainable lasers) (http://photos.smugmug.com/NICKMACARTY/i-vBqsdbM/0/65703be9/L/EAGLE_HEAVY_FIGHTER_01-L.jpg)
Title: Re: Space 1999 Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: jcf on March 04, 2018, 04:41:11 AM
Eagle Heavy Lift (http://photos.smugmug.com/NICKMACARTY/i-LJsQg3L/0/2f73ef27/L/EAGLE_HEAVY_LIFT_01-L.jpg)