Some photos I’ve taken of Sixteen 12’s, ‘The Exiles’ Episode set which features a
fully posable manipulator arm, a cryogenic pod, Eagle fuel cells, a top mounted
laser gun, Moon buggy and launch platform display plinth.
The posable manipulator arm aka grab arm has a lot of
delicate detail. It fits into a small hole on the forward port side leg pod. It is hinged in the middle and can fold left
or right.
The pincers look quite fragile but the plastic they’re made
of is fairly malleable, and both the cryogenic pod or the fuel cell fit nicely,
although it goes without saying I fitted them in place with extreme care.
The cryogenic pods as seen in the episode, The Exiles
carried an exiled group of rebel leaders from the planet Golos, who have been
cryogenically frozen and sent into space for their crimes against their own
people. There are just over fifty of
them which go into orbit around the Moon.
One cylinder is collected and brought to Alpha, containing
the alien, Cantor who, once he’s brought back to life appears benevolent, and
persuades Comr. Koenig to bring down another pod, which contains his wife,
Zova.
Of course, all is not what it seems, and Cantor and Zova
plan to use the Alphans to get their revenge on the rulers of their home
planet, unaware that 300 years have passed and their original punishers are
long dead.
Apart from the full size prop, the original
capsule/cylinders/ pod miniatures were 41/2” long to appear in scale to the 44”
Eagle prop, and the smaller ones for the 22” Eagle were 21/4”. The Sixteen 12
ones look to be around 11/8”
The manipulator or grab arm prop also appears in the
episodes, The Rules of Luton and The Space Warp when it’s used as a refuelling arm, with the red cylindrical nuclear
fuel cell at the end.
The set also has a small top mounted laser turret that
attaches to one of the bottom cross rails on the superstructure girders.
It can swivel up and down, but I don’t think I recommend doing that too often
as it’s very small a delicate.
Although it’s only a small piece of additional Eagle
equipment it does add to the look of the Eagle.
The turret appears in the episodes, Devil’s Planet, A B Chrysalis and The Séance Spectre.
For my photos I decided to add a couple of things resembling
nuclear domes (made from an old garden ornament) purely as some surface
decoration and hopefully give a little added interest.
The Exiles set is now sold out on Sixteen 12’sown website,
although they are currently still available for a time from other dealers.
