Starcruiser 1

[kerick]

Just did a bit of cutting last night.

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As you can see, I removed the original moulded in seats and have test fitted 1/48 TSR2 ejection seats.  I did trial fit some 1/72 ejection seats, but they looked lost it there....
The back wall will have to be moved further back to accommodate the pilots, but that's not a problem now.

Just my $0.02 worth but could you open up the side panels next to the main window? It would look more real and would allow better view of the cockpit. Since you are doing a bunch of work to it would be better to show it off.

BTW, save those original pilots for something with a real Buck Rogers look to it.
I can see how this model needs quite a rebuild. I love how so many SF spacecraft have a living quarters and cockpit with great big engines but apparently no place for fuel or supplies. Just look at a space shuttle or a Saturn 5. Tiny crew space, comparatively small engines and a huge amount of fuel. For the Space 1999 universe, this should reflect in the designs. But of course, that would make a boring TV show if everyone was sitting around making fuel calculations!

I agree about the interceptor. Is the pilot for that thing supposed to live in that cockpit for the whole mission? Perhaps a atmospheric shuttle type of vehicle with a docking port.

[Devilfish]

Wow, you dug this thread up, lol.  I was just thinking about this, as it has been on hold pending a total rethink and accumalation of parts.  I think it's going to form part of a Solar Explorer craft, with almost light speed engines.  This will obviously be the lander/exploration part, with another part holding the living area and main engines.

[zenrat]

I had one of these.  Like most of what I had it didn't survive.

When you say solar explorer craft what pops into my head is solar sails.  You could use mylar from a helium balloon for the sail but i'm not sure how you'd get it to hold it's unfurled shape without a very visible supporting frame.
Here's the DS9 version

[Devilfish]

I had one of these.  Like most of what I had it didn't survive.

When you say solar explorer craft what pops into my head is solar sails.  You could use mylar from a helium balloon for the sail but i'm not sure how you'd get it to hold it's unfurled shape without a very visible supporting frame.
Here's the DS9 version

Going for Nuclear Ion drive engines on my version.  (Halogen spotlight bulbs)

[kerick]

Watch out for the heat from the halogen bulbs!

[Weaver]

I had one of these.  Like most of what I had it didn't survive.

When you say solar explorer craft what pops into my head is solar sails.  You could use mylar from a helium balloon for the sail but i'm not sure how you'd get it to hold it's unfurled shape without a very visible supporting frame.
Here's the DS9 version

And like most movie versions of the idea, it gets the scale of the sail badly wrong: it would have to be vast....

[kerick]

Take one of those mylar ballons, cut it around the seam so you have a circle, and put a tiny little dot in the center. If you could see it, the dot would be too big.

[zenrat]

Yes.  But this is the Star Trek universe where shape shifting aliens live in buckets, there are no problems with time dilation when travelling FTL and they still haven't managed to invent the seatbelt.

[Devilfish]

Yes.  But this is the Star Trek universe where shape shifting aliens live in buckets, there are no problems with time dilation when travelling FTL and they still haven't managed to invent the seatbelt.

They have in the latest movie.  And in I think the very first...

[McColm]

Is three the magic number?