Starship Modeler: Gallery (Space: 1999)

Eagle with Space Mine

The Space: 1999 episode "Collision Course" showed us how to deal with any pesky asteroids heading our way: send spaceships to strategically place nukes on the surface and blow it up. And while 1975 wasn't a great year for science on TV, the model work was terrific. I modified AMT/Ertl's Eagle Transporter kit by opening up the framework with a Dremel Multi-Pro, then backing the sides with plastic inserts and detail parts. Next I added 16 small frame-ties and made new piping for the engines from heavy guage wire. I bent paperclip wire to make the new landing gear undercarriage and added latches and four stamped metal steering rockets to the Command Module At the end, I applied new decals from Tangents throughout.

I scratchbuilt the grappler claw and nuclear mine out of scrap plastic and coat hangar wire. I kinked the stiff wire supporting Eagle One close to the nuke to give the illusion of slack. That wire runs from the Eagle's Passenger Module, through the nuclear charge and down into the 6 x 8 inch base. That base was given a fractured surface with my Dremel, and a boulder field made up of painted rocks from our garden.

Another view of this model appeared in the Reader Gallery of FineScale Modeler Magazine's September 2012 issue.

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