My Dinky Toys' Space 1999 Eagle restoration project
Episode III
Previously, on these pages, I presented some progresses in my Dinky Toys' Eagle restoration, with episode I and episode II. Today I found some spare time to complete the paint job, even if the quality of spray paintings I chose was not so good and the final result does not satisfy me completely.
However, this is how the story went...
The original Eagle had a windowless transporter pod, so I prepared some finishings using a trasparent sheet of plastic, painted in black in the rear side and striped with two white lines in the front. Some masking tape was useful when spraying. Then I cut the paper and I glued the new windows from the inside. Nice!
Landing gears for the transporter pod were 3D printed and painted in black, I'm pretty satisfied of the final result. The vertical engine nozzles were chromed using a particular spray, after a careful cleaning of the red original plastics. But even if the result is nice on bare metal (the landing gears came out very polished), plastics prepared with a light gray primer are very hard to manipulate even after several hours.
The main metal beam and the engines' tanks were painted using a polished, glossy white, while the rest of the starship's body was painted in matte white. I like the color and it is very similar to the actual TV series.
So I am satisfied enough with the final result of my 3 days long work, but it is now time for decals, but this will be described in the next, final episode of my restoration!
Jump to Episode IV!
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Dal 2004 questo piccolo angolo di rete raccoglie gli interessi di ricerca e i lavori di sperimentazione digitale di Simone Garagnani in materia di cultura geek, ma soprattutto di Building Information Modeling, rilievi digitali ad alta risoluzione e computer graphics legata al mondo dell'architettura, dell'ingegneria e delle costruzioni. TC Project, è presente anche sul social network Facebook.
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