Here are a few more shots of the great looking Sixteen 12 prototype Swift, the featured guest spacecraft in the Space:1999 episode ‘ Brian the Brain’.
As it’s a prototype I imagine, like several of the other 16/12 models there are bound to be improvements and alterations until its official release.
I’ve no idea what those modifications might or might not be, that’s up to the 16/12 team to decide. We know the final model will be die-cast and will come with its own launch pad display plinth.
I don’t know
whether it’s planned, but I’d love the large rear engine bell to be alloy like
we have on the 16/12 Eagles.
One thing that we don’t see on the prototype is the small green and silver mechanism fitted in between the two top mounted storage tanks. Maybe that’s something else that might be added. We do get a look at this briefly in the episode. I can’t say what its purpose is. It looks like it’s got small rocket nozzles at the back so maybe it’s intended as some guide clamp when replacing the tanks while in space.
This garage kit appears to have overlooked them too; I have to say the build still looks good though!
These photos I took of the original Martin Bower built prop shows it with the tanks removed. This was apparently how designer Ron Burton originally intended the model to look as the Altares spaceship landing craft if the one-off pilot show, Into Infinity- The Day After Tommorrow had made it to a series.
Finally, here
are some of the publicity flyers that Sixteen 12 has created using some of my
photos.
Love the use of Venus Fly Traps, Ferns and Cactai to give your jungle planet an alien feel.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mish. I take my lead from what concept artist Keith Wilson said about alien environments about giving them something that people can relate to rather than make them too arty!
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