space 1999 eagle

Choppa Nutta
Cool subject, I've just been watching season one of this show and I have to say it hasn't aged too badly at all 🙂
Although some episodes are a bit silly and it doesn't seem to matter how many people die on Alpha One there is always over 300 people there haha 😄
still though, all good fun.
I shall enjoy following this 🙂

Ben M
Yes the show is pretty funny. My wife and I watched a couple episodes and laughed the whole time. I loved it when I was a kid, and I had built this model and the one of the hawk when I was a kid. I also built some alien with a car that I think was from the show.

Ben M
The landing gear continues to challenge me but I have one leg done maybe. Kind of wish now I would have made them spring loaded, wouldn't have been much harder. The foot pad is a ground down plastic part from the kit, the rest is brass parts and photoetch.

Ben M
Not sure how I will mask this for painting. The bottom of the pod should remain black, the rest silver. Liquid masking compound maybe?

Torsten
I think liquid is the best choice

Ben M
Unfortunately the liquid mask pulled the Vallejo black primer off the brass ... I'm repainting everything with a brush.

Ben M
Now the tamiya tape pulled the paint off the photo etch. There sure is a learning curve here... Any advice on how to keep this from happening? I used tamiya grey primer as my base coat.

Ben M
All done!

Stefan Schacht
Hallo Ben, nice projekt. I have had good experience with mr metal primer from gunze scalemates.com/kits/1014116-..ngyo-mp242-mr-metal-primer-r. Cheers Stefan

Ben M
Thank you for the tip! I will try some next time. I appreciate all the help I got from everyone on here!