Aztek Dummy Update 5/15/20 - 22" Eagle 2 episode 1

[@splashfx_]

Thanks for taking us along for the build. Great work as always Lou! Also, Round 2 should ALWAYS send you a test shot as soon as they have the instructions ready so you can proof them and raise their quality - it's a testament to your attention to detail.

[@silvereagle2061]

Finally someone who still calls them "trees" like I grew up calling them. This "sprew" stuff is wrong.

[@tachi98lep]

I always loved the Eagles from Space 1999. Today you are bringing out the memories of youth! Another great video and model. Also, they miss spelled: assemblies!

[@brandonb1681]

I love this show. I had a crush on Zienia Merton watching as a young boy. Looking forward to this build. TY.

[@mikegilliam]

Great looking build going on Lou. I've always loved the Eagles and those 22" ones are nice and large. I wondered about the angle of the booster nozzles when I saw that on the show too!!! Seems odd but hey, it's sci-fi. I'm looking forward to the next episode!!!

[@jasonotoole1822]

Great update Lou. I just got these two kits myself and was interested in the update to the kit from the first kit. I was disappointed at first that it was different and we didn't get the Astronaut pilots but when I saw how much has been reworked in your video and from checking the kits out myself I am impressed with it. I have always loved this version of the Eagle after seeing it in the Metamorph episode and am very keen to get it on my model shelf soon.

[@HowardWatts1]

Hey Lou, just want to say hi from the U.K, and thanks for your fantastic builds. I've learned a great deal (love the aluminium tube / led / fibre trick from the Enterprise C build). Gonna watch this now - looking forward to it!

[@604Gonzo007]

Just found your channel. Really enjoying it. I will be picking up a copy of this kit. Thanks

[@calvinroestudioworks5222]

Thanks Lou. Great build and entertaining as always.

[@dalethelander3781]

Lou...the Eagle 1 spine was always like the Eagle 2, nothing has changed. I think you're thinking of last fall's 14" Eagle. The spine made me pull my hair out 4 years ago when I built 3 Eagle 1s. I shave my head now. The landing gear pads were originally one piece, but the plastic sunk on the bottom surface. Splitting the pads into two parts solved the problem.

[@RyderSpearmann]

Lou... the angle of the nozzles for the booster actually make sense... (surprising!). They push through the center of gravity of the Eagle... and so would not impart any rotation on the eagle... (similar to the main engine angle on the Space Shuttle). Or course, thanks to vector addition... the trajectory would be odd (direction of travel would no longer be aligned to the axis). Of course... they didn’t fly right on the show IIRC, the boosters somehow added velocity only on axis... but there ya go.

[@MrChief101]

I often wonder at the type of personality that could get a sci-fi show made in the 1960-70s. Irwin Allen was famous for saying give me this or that, doesn't have to fit, doesn't have to make sense-- roll cameras! Your youthful brain wondering at the way-off-center-of-gravity "booster" (better called a "pinwheel") was not wrong. The idea of a Gerry Anderson craft not working as the laws of physics would suggest is no prob. If you recall, when any of the Thunderbird craft came in for a landing, they floated with no means of propulsion, until they needed to actually land. Then their landing rockets would fire, gently lowering them to the ground. But here we are, decades later, pondering and paying tribute to the Trims and Meddings who made the wonky concepts sing. Dalmaso Mysteries-- sounds like a perfect alternate YT channel! I very much applaud your use of magnets!

[@djcorny]

It alsways surprises me how many errors a manual from Round 2 contains. Not that I'm not used to it. Back in they days when I was 12 and built my first AMT Enterprise, I found problems with the manuals.

[@weaponeer]

great series. wish I could afford one of those kits for building. I would love to try to build a modernized version, and changing from Gemini style windows, to Shuttle style windows, and expand the sides out like an F1 car so it's even with the shoulders, and paint it as if there was a heat shield along the bottom etc.

[@TheShornak]

Those extra pieces on the cross spines related to the engines were added for year 2 so they can have the simulated jet propulsion coming out the back engines. Just a little change.

[@SamLowryDZ-015]

Kind of shows MPC/Round2 do pay attention to some details that they replicated the change in pipework for the engine section for year2

[@pedrotome9119]

Thank God you're here! It won't be easy to get this model eagle where I am. But maybe I will find some one who sells this in U.E. or otherwise it will be a big big head ache with our ''lovely'' Customs. In your opinion does this model is just like the movie model of its counter part? I loved this video as well as all yours and your explanations of everything in them. I do not even know other modelers here or close, specialy space ships and sci-fi builders. Please keep around ...!

[@wraith20072007]

I get my magnets from K&J too and they are really good magnets,,,very strong.

[@mlehm63]

Hi Lou - I think the gap is because one or both of the interior posts inside the wedge shaped lab pod extension is not fully inserted into the hole - there is a certain orientation they need to be in so as to fully fit down flush into the hole, and if they aren’t then the roof and floor height will be a bit too much, causing the gap you noticed. Hope this is helpful

[@aztekdummy]

I don't think that's it. The wedge shape is fitting the contours of the cabin roof and side walls perfectly and the floor of the wedge is fitting the sides of the wedge. if there is a gap at the bottom, there should be a raised bump at the top if I had not seated the wedge correctly

[@rasmokey4]

Nice work Lou!

[@cptcosmo]

Fill those holes with squadron green putty and get to sanding...

[@michaeljoseph5187]

Hey Lou do think it would be possible to put video monitors in the windows like in your 2001 pod with video of pilots

[@TheShornak]

Did you know the tops of the 2 modules on either side of the lab pod there is some detail that on the 44 inch models they use the 2 halves of a lunar lander from the old Apollo kits. I noticed on the round 2 model you can see them.

[@aztekdummy]

there are tiny lunar modules all over this kit. only fitting since it's a moon ship itself

[@eugenerusselnash]

Just a Quick Note! If you look at any Space Shuttle, the Engine Bells are Flared Out in a Similar Configuration to the Eagle Booster Assembly? The Only Significant Difference is that the Space Shuttle’s Have Three Boosters and the Eagle Has Two. Also as an Observation the Eagles Booster Assemblies might be Slightly More Acute than the Shuttles But Not By Much? Also Look at the Russian Jupiter Rockets and the French Arianna’s? These Engine Bells from Rocket to Shuttle Also Pivot For Directional Thrust an Aesthetically Sound Theory Probably Applied to The Second Season Laboratory Eagle?

[@dalethelander3781]

When Space:1999 began filming in 1973, the Space Shuttle was still on the drawing board at North American-Rockwell.

[@eugenerusselnash]

Heya! Martin Bower Built the Eagles- not one Eagle was the Same. So the Laboratory Eagle will Differ from the Cargo or Executive Pod Eagles. Maybe this has Followed through to the Production Models? The Construction will be Different? Best

[@dalethelander3781]

The first two Eagles were built at Space Models of Feltham, England by a modelmaker named Wag Evans. Martin Bower wasn't hired as a freelancer until Alpha Child. The third Eagle was made by Derek Freeborn and Associates. Freeborn had a problem matching the Command Module to the first two.

[@Wild-Dad]

I’m surprised you are not lighting the cockpit or is that part of the fun and games for next week? Also, I suppose that’s why it’s called “movie magic”, at 23:00, one of the “BOBO” frames all of a sudden appeared on the cutting board all the while the narration had continued with out a stop. LOL. I don’t suppose if one has dyslexia, that those frames could be called “OBOB”s instead. (I know, a very bad pun) Now, I hadn’t thought to look when you had the Eagle 1 out, as I noticed it at the end - there are no “BOBO” frames on that front module assembly. Is that the same on E1? I checked my original 1976 MPC model and those cages (while moulded in one piece) were on the front and rear modules. Is that a design flaw on the original 12” model or a major difference between E1 and E2? I’m only asking as I may have missed you pointing it out. Thanks again for building the models that I’ll never get a chance to.

[@aztekdummy]

i just didn't put those cages on for the last shot because the paint was wet on them.

[@Wild-Dad]

@@aztekdummy - that sounds like a good reason not to attach them. I was watching the video a bit later last night/this morning than normal as I was interested in the build. I thought I had missed a major part of the build when you ended up actually comparing E1 to E2. It is sort of like when/was one realizes you nodded off for a second while driving. Not quite the same consequences but I hope you know what I mean. So are you going to light the cockpit? I'm just asking as you had mentioned that there is an option to pull the front cockpit off to see the interior. That sounds like a strange option to have, is it that detailed? I'm just thinking of the many kits of large bombers (17s, Lancs, 52s, etc...) that have very detailed cockpits but you don't have the option of pulling off the front of the plane to view them.

[@d-dude7323]

At 50min part... When looking at those connector modules. Being silly. But how are those doors supposed to open to the side? And the inside set is easily larger than the outside! For the Boosters, they would just use blue-tooth to control it. :) Looks good. I want one!

[@aztekdummy]

yeah, that's the tricky thing about those sci-fi doors that slide open. where does the pocket door go? Only the Enterprise got that right. my favorite is the Hangar control room on the Death Star. The one that slams down behind Luke as he takes off the stormtrooper helmet. I mean where was that door? was it in the wall on the floor above this one?

[@d-dude7323]

@@aztekdummy over all the lab module makes more sense, with air locks on the side. But there rocket motors on the bottom do not. 6 of them? Is it really that heavy? The passenger regular pod has 4, the air locks that heavy? Those are just the nozzles, the motors would be kinda large lol. All of the bottom rocket engines don't fit. Each section inside is it's own system. 6 doors. But how does the door fit inside the command pod? Questions we shouldn't ask ourselves. I still can't really to get that model. Your videos will be helpful to me. Thanks for making them.

[@scifiguy26]

@ D-Dude.. did they have Bluetooth in 1999??😁

[@d-dude7323]

@@scifiguy26 do we have a moon base? Or have eagles space craft which have a top speed of 15% the speed of light. Haha. So... If we have moonbases, then Bluetooth like tech will be there too. And oh course WiFi!

[@scifiguy26]

@@d-dude7323 i know i was just kidding 😅

[@jaws062666]

Great job as always Lou. Question, when you prime the parts first does the Tenax melt the parts together after the promer is applied or do you still scrape the paint off first

[@aztekdummy]

The tenax will wipe off the primer so I don't need to scrape it

[@scifimodelshop]

I always those boosters on top angled up was to keep the nose down while flying in space ? my story I am sticking withe it . looks like a half year build for me very nice ship...

[@EddieLopez711]

I want to see a Jupiter build, have you done one?

[@softdorothy]

Do you ever kit-bash, Lou? I have an awesome idea that I think you could pull off beautifully.

[@Wild-Dad]

One more quick question. Regarding the framework for the new booster pack, are those actually metal clips that seem to be embedded/moulded into the frame in order for the pack to attach to the spine? Or, are the clips attached to the frame just like any other piece - just glued?

[@aztekdummy]

the metal clips are screwed to the frame. better than just glue

[@Wild-Dad]

@@aztekdummy 👍👍👍👍 When I saw them on the base frame I thought, "wait, those clips look like they're metal". Screwing them on is a very good idea. I'm assuming that pack is going to stay on the E2?

[@ravenslament622]

Oh please tell me what make that sponge sander is please

[@silverbullet6833]

just started watching the video series lol, isnert is probably chinglish but asemblies? is spelt wrong assemblies would be correct

[@thechannel6363]

The spine assembly looks identical to the Eagle 1 kit... with no change.

[@badenov]

Yes the spine one the 22 inch Eagle 3 is exactly the same as the 22 inch Eagle 1. Lou, You maybe thinking of the 14 inche Eagle released last year,\.

[@badenov]

Sorry, meant to type Eagle 2 not Eagle 3

[@kenskiffington7419]

I think it only for pulling away from something the boosters

[@richardknowles5818]

Its a space vehicle, why would the drips have a direction?🤔

[@aztekdummy]

because it only drips when it's in a gravity environment

[@avi8r66]

Its fictional, but if it's oozy, like say grease, the ooze would build up around the leak, and be less viscous or even frozen in place while in space or even on the moon's surface. But when it comes into the hangar, where it's warm, that ooze would warm and loosen, dripping down.

[@owenauer3406]

How can you have drips and rust in space?

[@aztekdummy]

because it also goes down to planets with atmospheres

[@SamLowryDZ-015]

Yay styrene bell bottoms

[@andrewbeasley]

I was relaxed till you showed me those trousers! I had happily forgotten about them...

[@peteaubin8159]

Assemblies is also misspelled along with insert.....lol

[@CDP1861]

Ahh, the engine section... Search for some images of the original studio models, but don't expect to be any smarter. The 22 inch models look different from the big 44 inch models and apparently they were constantly repairing the models after filming yet another crash. No two original models really look alike or as they looked when they were built.

[@videodrone101]

Rust on a space ship? No air, or moisture, in space. So no oxidation of any kind. And i doubt they use much steel on space ships.So...no. That just looks wrong.

[@aztekdummy]

Are you not counting the times where it went to a planet with an atmosphere? Or the maintenance bay? You are not remembering the show accurately. It didn't spend all it's time in the vacuum of space.

[@videodrone101]

@@aztekdummy A space vehicle wouldn't have been made of steel or any other metal that could rust. It would be made of Aluminum, Titanium, various alloys and stuff like carbon fiber, for weight savings.

[@videodrone101]

@@aztekdummy Spacecraft are still not made of steel, or other metals that could rust. They are too heavy. Think aluminum, titanium, alloys and carbon fiber. An eagle may have dirt, moon dust & grime, sure, but red oxide from ferrous metals?

[@aztekdummy]

So you're a spacecraft engineer, I didn't know...its fiction. And my solution is as good as yours. Plus the filming model had the rust. That's all I need. Call it "space gunk" if that's what you need.

[@TheShornak]

not only was Insert spelled wrong asembly is not correct either on that frame.

[@silvereagle2061]

I'll take Allen over Tony anytime because the second season sucked ass.

[@TheRealGraylocke]

Don't over analyze, putty over the extra fuel cell hole and move on.

[@BillHosko]

Stop with the nitpicking about the directions and 'holes'... Can't watch further.