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Published: 2012-06-24 22:11:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1956; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 88
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Model builder extraordinaire, Martin Bower, who built the Space:1999 models, and Alien and Outland, etc, was gracious enough to email this shot of one of his latest projects.I have painstakingly rotoscoped it, and here she is, in her native environment.
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This is a good image, and takes me back many decades. I built the original kit when it came out. When was that? Around 1969 I think.
Very good point on the colour. I once saw an image of a Moonbus parked on a pad that looked to be the APOLLO-11 landing site. If memory serves it was painted in a traditional school bus yellow and black livery. I suspect that in reality International orange, Industrial Yellow, and/or blaze orange, would be best.
Although, a bright blue would work in lunar light phase, but would likely get lost in dark phase, which would have a lot of reflected "Earth-Glow" blue on the surface. Anyone have a scene of a crashed Moonbus?
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Great composition RR
Got the model under the bed, waiting for a rainy day, never keen on the white ship flying over a pale grey back ground, if it crashed it would be hard to find.
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You're right about that!
I guess the orange beak on the Space 1999 hawks makes sense.
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I was think of red or blue(ala Zero X)when I get around to mine
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