I had idea for something along those lines, but started with a fully colonized moon with multiple civilian bases of different nations (that were kinda on bad terms) then "somebody" (let's say the Chinese base, as it might be believable they'd be loose on the safety protocols) does an experiment with hyperspace jump drive and the whole dang moon jumps off across the galaxy. The Americans remember there was an old military type base/ waste disposal dump mothballed decades ago loaded with transport ships and weapons and science stuff that might be useful so everyone goes and dusts off "Moonbase Alpha!" So now all the colonys have to cooperate and not kill each other in the process. PS, it would be cool if Juliet Landau could be in it as the daughter of the former base commander, John Keonig. Don't know what part she'd play but as I envision an ensemble cast it sounds do-able.
@@magellanthecat you don't understand how that works at all, you dont just die off even if inbreeding is your only choice. And with over 300 people you have a fair chance of making it work without to many issues. Frederick Marin, an astrophysicist has created a simulation that suggests only 98 healthy breeding individuals would be needed, and he ran his simulation out to 6,000 years.
We saw that the command module can detach from the Eagle body in the episode, "Dragon's Domain". It's a good idea. The Eagle effectively has an emergency escape pod. The pod still has thrusters so you can get away from a eagle engine about to explode or some such. The eagle was a very good design although I have to wonder where the fuel went. The multi module design might be worth using on a real spacecraft.
Looking at the command module, the single window on either side meant that the pilots could see straight ahead but did not otherwise have good visibility to the outside. I'm thinking of comparing it to the cockpit of the Space Shuttle orbiter, or the windows on a jet airplane cockpit. Got an idea: how about putting the virtual camera where the pilot's head is when sitting in the seat? He'd have the windshield/window, and the controls just beneath it. Another thing: is there enough room inside the module's frame for the door to slide all the way open?
I wondered why they didn't bring the ships from Dragon's Domain around the moon's orbit once the "dragon" was slain. Perhaps there were more and it was too big a risk. It was like something like the sea of Sargasso and they might have provided valuable tech to study. They sometimes recuperated archives from alien ships but you rarely saw them with improved tech during the series, you would have though that the advanced tech could have been used as is even though they couldn't replicate it the same way that regular people use iPads today.
it's strange, we never got to see that inside pov of the pilot's via the cockpit during the show. That has always puzzled me to this day. Thank you for finally giving us that perspective.
This is simply brilliant. I feel that some of the higher-placed controls are too far away for the pilots to reach, something that didn't appear to be an issue in the show itself, but other than that, this is mesmerising, glorious work.
If a reboot was ever done. I suggest they base it on one of Jupiter or Saturns moons being blasted out of orbit. Perhaps the premise could be kind of like Star Trek Deep Space 9 whereas a wormhole opens near say Titan where a research station/nuclear waste sight exists. Similar nuclear detonation with the gravity of the wormhole acting on Titan, based on the same crappy science, but Earth isn’t destroyed by the loss of its moon.
I don't think they were made to run without the chases though. Never saw them like shuttles from ST like this. They ran on more conventional fuel systems and the four corners had places for fuel so this looks like there is no place for any fuel at all here. Cool though!
I got the shape of the head after much much trouble done, but the plating I just cannot get it right. Got the rest of the body but the plating is something that totally alludes me, any tips maybe perhaps for a fellow C4D enthusiast?
Hello rikof. I'm not a 3D modeller at all, I'm more of a graphic designer and video guy. Believe it or not, I don't remember exactly how I made it. I made this model a few years ago as an excuse to learn how to model more complex shapes using HyperNURB. At that time I also modeled other Space: 1999 stuff: a moonbuggy, a Sorella lamp and a Toga chair. I do remember I used my (vector based) Eagle blueprints as a starting point, expecially for the plating part and of course I only worked on a quarter of the shape, taking advantage of the Symmetry Tool to create the rest of the Command Module exterior. Now it is almost all gone in my mind and if I had to do it again I should learn everything from scratch all over again! Sorry.
The HUD is a really nice addition; both credible and nicely executed. The controls on cockpit left don't seem to match those shown in the show, and the centre displays between the viewports were never seen at all (AFAIK), but this is really beautiful. Excellent work. You should add this to the library of models that SOS (Space Opera Society) has been building and assembling of the Alpha complex. And it looks from the comments below like you could make a lot of people very happy just to render this at a higher frame rate (120) and play it back at 30FPS. But it also looks like you've tossed your source files? Too bad.
Ha! You're quite right. I watched it again; the color-coded alphanum keys were there after all. I was looking for them one panel forward, and didn't think to go back and check it again. Stellar work all through, though I'm sorry for the person whose POV we're watching from, unless they brought along an MMU. Still really love the non-canon HUD displays, and really first-rate work on the centre console between the viewports.
And I'm watching Seance Spectre, where we see cockpit instruments without clear location, and they're the ones you had put at centre. In my defence, I was not allowed to watch this episode as soon as they started doing "Total Concentration..." but the display looks like it had also been used elsewhere (and I'd simply forgotten.) Again, beautiful work. Have you considered taking it up again? The Eagle passenger module could be added to this model (plus the connecting module just behind the cockpit.)
@@baldaxx If it had been built specifically for Year 2, I might buy that. The budget had been cut, and if I understand correctly they had been reduced from two soundstages to one and things had to be condensed. Command Center was significantly smaller than its predecessor and didn't seem to have room for a left side. The Eagle set lost the section between the command module and the passenger module. But the Eagle was built during Year 1, when money seemed to be no object. Main Mission was very elaborate with a completely unnecessary and seldom-used observation deck, which seemed to exist for the sole purpose of making the set look grand. Voyager 1 had a front, so did the Ultra Probe, and those sets only appeared in one episode. The Eagle was used constantly. On several occasions in both seasons they used cutaways to give a view of a front that wasn't there. Maybe they just couldn't reconcile the interior with the exterior?
I keep rewind this and cannot resolve how the seats aren't where the lower black cutouts are on the outside...does anyone else see this? They can't be in the place they are on the inside AND have the black wedge cutouts on the outside...
Nicely done Rip Martin landau
Wow! Very detailed. I loved the music, Space: 1999 1st season music always had a mournful tone.
Reminds me of the episode Dragons Domain, when Tony Cellini docked an Eagle cockpit to the Ultra Probe!
Great show and glad I bought the DVD collection and watch an episode everyday..
Excellent - really wish they would do a reboot on this series.
They could call it "The children of Alpha".
Ira Livingston they tried and it failed thanks to licensing disagreements and an egomaniac at the helm
I had idea for something along those lines, but started with a fully colonized moon with multiple civilian bases of different nations (that were kinda on bad terms) then "somebody" (let's say the Chinese base, as it might be believable they'd be loose on the safety protocols) does an experiment with hyperspace jump drive and the whole dang moon jumps off across the galaxy. The Americans remember there was an old military type base/ waste disposal dump mothballed decades ago loaded with transport ships and weapons and science stuff that might be useful so everyone goes and dusts off "Moonbase Alpha!" So now all the colonys have to cooperate and not kill each other in the process.
PS, it would be cool if Juliet Landau could be in it as the daughter of the former base commander, John Keonig. Don't know what part she'd play but as I envision an ensemble cast it sounds do-able.
@@magellanthecat you don't understand how that works at all, you dont just die off even if inbreeding is your only choice. And with over 300 people you have a fair chance of making it work without to many issues.
Frederick Marin, an astrophysicist has created a simulation that suggests only 98 healthy breeding individuals would be needed, and he ran his simulation out to 6,000 years.
Be careful what you ask for...
Great rendering! Coupled with that great Barry Grey music!
That was epic- best and most detailed space 1999 CGI animation on CZcams!
Wow, the Andersons would be so proud of your great work
Thank you Steve C!
Beautifully done!!! 😍
Perfect choice of original music too.
We saw that the command module can detach from the Eagle body in the episode, "Dragon's Domain". It's a good idea. The Eagle effectively has an emergency escape pod. The pod still has thrusters so you can get away from a eagle engine about to explode or some such. The eagle was a very good design although I have to wonder where the fuel went. The multi module design might be worth using on a real spacecraft.
Looking at the command module, the single window on either side meant that the pilots could see straight ahead but did not otherwise have good visibility to the outside. I'm thinking of comparing it to the cockpit of the Space Shuttle orbiter, or the windows on a jet airplane cockpit. Got an idea: how about putting the virtual camera where the pilot's head is when sitting in the seat? He'd have the windshield/window, and the controls just beneath it. Another thing: is there enough room inside the module's frame for the door to slide all the way open?
@@dtvjho it's an almost perfect representation of actual spacecraft.
I wondered why they didn't bring the ships from Dragon's Domain around the moon's orbit once the "dragon" was slain. Perhaps there were more and it was too big a risk. It was like something like the sea of Sargasso and they might have provided valuable tech to study. They sometimes recuperated archives from alien ships but you rarely saw them with improved tech during the series, you would have though that the advanced tech could have been used as is even though they couldn't replicate it the same way that regular people use iPads today.
This is awesome.
One of the most iconic spacecraft in science fiction, brilliant design and a fantastic tv series, fond memories of Space 1999
nice clean music, fantastic video
Beautiful
G'day from Sydney, Australia. Awesome work.
The "Dinky" one was my pride and joy for my 9th birthday :-)
P.S. I can't find *This* version of the music, that little glissando cadence after the harp at 35-40 is exquisite.
solid quality!
Stunning! And PERFECT!
Seeing the discrepancies between the external and internal pilot shots always bothered me but this kept the perspective true.
I am very impressed!great job,thank you
Nice! I would have been interesting to slow down and dwell on the interior details...
I made an Eagle in AutoCAD a few years back, from memory. This is so much better.
would make for a great episode of Space 1999
Breathtaking!
👍👍👍👍👍
This is bloody stunning. Bravo!
As much as I like the eagle it needs work. So much potential.
Fantastic!!!
Amazing! :)
Quite stunning.
(from Italy): WOW, WOW and WOW!
This is great. I would love to see the rest of the eagle.
really cool !
Koenig best quote:
- '' Paul ? ''
Lovely ! great detail put into this how i wish for a reboot of any kind for this series.
"oh damn - i never should have used that door..."
( - amazing well made )
BEAUTIFUL
Perfect!
Wauw - beautiful !!
Dammit, who left the door open, AGAIN??!!??
it's strange, we never got to see that inside pov of the pilot's via the cockpit during the show. That has always puzzled me to this day. Thank you for finally giving us that perspective.
Awesome work! Although I prefer the Year One interior... :)
Animazione spaziale molto ben riuscita e molto ben strutturata.
KOENIG: Alan! Alan! Alan! -- who opened up the airlock? Silence of space...Victor, Victor, Victooooorrrr!!!
That’s ablative armor on the hull, isn’t it ? Awesome
bellissimo, se era veramente cosi il cockpit peccato che nel film non si vede mai
I never figured out what the bottom window-like cutouts are for.
that always bothered me as well.
Pretty
This is simply brilliant. I feel that some of the higher-placed controls are too far away for the pilots to reach, something that didn't appear to be an issue in the show itself, but other than that, this is mesmerising, glorious work.
Superbe !
If a reboot was ever done. I suggest they base it on one of Jupiter or Saturns moons being blasted out of orbit. Perhaps the premise could be kind of like Star Trek Deep Space 9 whereas a wormhole opens near say Titan where a research station/nuclear waste sight exists. Similar nuclear detonation with the gravity of the wormhole acting on Titan, based on the same crappy science, but Earth isn’t destroyed by the loss of its moon.
Holy F this is awesome... Could you please put Maya in there next time as well?
=M=
Excellent.
I assume it's not trivial to make the interior match the exterior.
A for efforts. But, the rear engines and command module could be combined to make a sporty roundabout 😎
MORE!!
I don't think they were made to run without the chases though. Never saw them like shuttles from ST like this. They ran on more conventional fuel systems and the four corners had places for fuel so this looks like there is no place for any fuel at all here. Cool though!
So were there parachutes in the command module section?
MORE MORE MORE!
are the files available to download, of the eagle command module you created
I got the shape of the head after much much trouble done, but the plating I just cannot get it right. Got the rest of the body but the plating is something that totally alludes me, any tips maybe perhaps for a fellow C4D enthusiast?
Hello rikof. I'm not a 3D modeller at all, I'm more of a graphic designer and video guy. Believe it or not, I don't remember exactly how I made it. I made this model a few years ago as an excuse to learn how to model more complex shapes using HyperNURB. At that time I also modeled other Space: 1999 stuff: a moonbuggy, a Sorella lamp and a Toga chair. I do remember I used my (vector based) Eagle blueprints as a starting point, expecially for the plating part and of course I only worked on a quarter of the shape, taking advantage of the Symmetry Tool to create the rest of the Command Module exterior. Now it is almost all gone in my mind and if I had to do it again I should learn everything from scratch all over again! Sorry.
Thank you Mark Harvey!
Hey, thanks for the reply! :) I'll just stumble along then. Cheers!
The HUD is a really nice addition; both credible and nicely executed.
The controls on cockpit left don't seem to match those shown in the show, and the centre displays between the viewports were never seen at all (AFAIK), but this is really beautiful. Excellent work. You should add this to the library of models that SOS (Space Opera Society) has been building and assembling of the Alpha complex.
And it looks from the comments below like you could make a lot of people very happy just to render this at a higher frame rate (120) and play it back at 30FPS. But it also looks like you've tossed your source files? Too bad.
Steve Jordan Hi Steve. Are you sure about the control panels on the left? Prove me wrong! 🙂
Ha! You're quite right. I watched it again; the color-coded alphanum keys were there after all. I was looking for them one panel forward, and didn't think to go back and check it again.
Stellar work all through, though I'm sorry for the person whose POV we're watching from, unless they brought along an MMU. Still really love the non-canon HUD displays, and really first-rate work on the centre console between the viewports.
And I'm watching Seance Spectre, where we see cockpit instruments without clear location, and they're the ones you had put at centre. In my defence, I was not allowed to watch this episode as soon as they started doing "Total Concentration..." but the display looks like it had also been used elsewhere (and I'd simply forgotten.)
Again, beautiful work. Have you considered taking it up again? The Eagle passenger module could be added to this model (plus the connecting module just behind the cockpit.)
Nice work! What happened to the crew?
Good question. Nobody knows. They just disappeared.
Maybe you need to remake the show. You have all the parts necessary except for casting
downloaded the software but i need to have a triple PHD. astro, quantum physics and NASA engineering just to figure it our
what software did you use?
Hi. Cinema 4D.
How does the module operate w/o the main section does it just glide in
anthony barlow Hi Anthony. Have you noticed the two engine bells protruding in the rear of the module?
Should build this as a cis-lunar Space Tug CM (with airlock) ...
McDonnell Gemini capsule was side-by-side layout ... name it for Gus Grissom.
I'll start believing in this when they can tell me how there can be sound in that cockpit when it's open to space.
Jeff Mullen You caught me! I confess it‘s a fake. I made it.
@@baldaxx LOL! And here I was thinking it was an actual picture of a vehicle that never existed! ;)
Weill Done!...
Anybody know why the Eagle cockpit set had no front? Always wondered about that.
In cinema (and in television) you build only what is strictly necessary to tell the story.
@@baldaxx If it had been built specifically for Year 2, I might buy that. The budget had been cut, and if I understand correctly they had been reduced from two soundstages to one and things had to be condensed. Command Center was significantly smaller than its predecessor and didn't seem to have room for a left side. The Eagle set lost the section between the command module and the passenger module. But the Eagle was built during Year 1, when money seemed to be no object. Main Mission was very elaborate with a completely unnecessary and seldom-used observation deck, which seemed to exist for the sole purpose of making the set look grand. Voyager 1 had a front, so did the Ultra Probe, and those sets only appeared in one episode. The Eagle was used constantly. On several occasions in both seasons they used cutaways to give a view of a front that wasn't there. Maybe they just couldn't reconcile the interior with the exterior?
now you should do the main body . but nice anyways
Thats the easy bit!
I keep rewind this and cannot resolve how the seats aren't where the lower black cutouts are on the outside...does anyone else see this? They can't be in the place they are on the inside AND have the black wedge cutouts on the outside...
www.baldavision.com/alpha/eagle_A.jpg
www.baldavision.com/alpha/eagle_B.jpg
tuto for make this...please.
Can it land on Earth by itself?
In a Martin Bower replica (not an original model) the Eagle command module has landing legs. catacombs.space1999.net/main/models/eagle/imea09.jpg
get a grip this is not real
Beautiful