MOONBASE CENTRAL: A 25 Foot Long Space: 1999 Eagle Model

Friday, 23 August 2024

A 25 Foot Long Space: 1999 Eagle Model

https://youtu.be/UglnKxKE07w?si=PTV7Dt9rI09rXbr0

look at this Eagle!! It's HUGE!!!!

Do you like it?

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14 comments:

Baron Greystone8/23/2024 1:36 am
I wonder how his wife felt about having that thing in the back yard?
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Paul Adams from New Zealand8/23/2024 5:49 am
That is both amazing and insane. What a wonderful model. Originally made as a playhouse for children.
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lewis p morley8/23/2024 6:53 am
Wow! That level of detail and quality of finish is astounding! It makes the choice of widgets in the original model glaringly obvious too!
I wonder why he chose 1/4.4 scale? I was wondering if it was full 1/3 Thunderbirds size, but it's still not big enough!

Wow! A Thunderbirds style puppet of Commander Koenig! No one has ever made one of those!
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WOODSY8/23/2024 8:09 am
Could that model be AI?
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lewis p morley8/23/2024 8:25 am
Good call, Woodsy.
You can't be too careful nowadays!
I think it's real, too many intricate close ups and cuts. I'm not sure SORA or the other AI Video systems are quite up to this level of consistency yet.
-But give them another 6 months!

As the Beatles said, "Nothing is Real"!
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Yorkie8/23/2024 8:31 am
Superb craftsmanship. The entire build was posted over the past couple of years or so on the Space 1999 Props & Ships Facebook page. Even Brian Johnson was impressed. The Eagle fits in his garage, comes apart in sections and has been on display at a convention in Denmark. There is also a guy in the US who is building a full size Colonial Viper from the original Battlestar Galactica in his garage !
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lewis p morley8/23/2024 8:33 am
I was just watching it again with an "eagle" eye for fakery. I wondered if it might be a really good piece of greenscreen compositing, as there are no obvious shadows in the interactions between man and model.
However, the close up of the polished aluminium thruster quads shows a SLIGHT reflection of his arm, so yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!

The amount of effort I have to expend these days, fact checking reality...
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Mish8/23/2024 3:10 pm
Whilst building this model will have taken a lot of time, it would also require considerable time and effort to fake it. And why would you bother ? I can't imagine the number of clicks such a niche thing will get online, could generate all that much cash.
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Yorkie8/23/2024 4:12 pm
Full build here if you want to try making one yourself ! https://www.wenneberg.dk/eagle.htm
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Ed and Bettina Berg8/23/2024 5:17 pm
Wow! What a humongous effort - awesome!
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