All the parts assembled so far. Getting close to closing up the cockpit, just have to prepare the windows and then I can look at sticking that together and cleaning up the seam.
Got the windows ready. Primed the inside of the bottom windows with one-shot black and masked the front of all the windows ready to glue into the cockpit halves.
All the parts constructed (sorry, forgot to take photos of the cargo pod going together) primed with one-shot white. You can see how big the thing is going to be!!
Decals applied to the cockpit and the Engine tank section. I shelled out on the weathering decal set and they are really delicate, fiddly and difficult to apply as they will only come off the backing using hot water and then all they want to do is curl up or wrinkle. Really fiddly but I persevered and only failed with two. Sealed in with another gloss coat.
Here's the top view.
And the bottom view. The middle bottle was one of the decals that folded over so much it was unsalvageable so trashed it and used the kit supplied decal. My "head canon" is that the bottle had been swapped off another Eagle and that's why it's marked different. I'll put that one at the bottom so you won't see it anyway.
Light pinwash with Blue-Grey, cleaned up with Lacquer Thinners then two coats of Matt varnish to dull everything down. That's the cockpit pretty much done. Just need to add the four metallic 'sensors'
Matt coated the feet and gloss coated the struts which made them really dark - the metalliser doesn't like anything on top of it but I wanted to protect the struts from scrapes so will have to live with it. They're still metallic, just darker than before.
Smoke oil paint weathering on all the Engine Bells. Did that early as that needs a while to dry fully ahead of adding the smaller bells to the bottom of the Rescue Pod
Next on the bench is the MPC Eagle Transporter from Space 1999. Planning to follow how ModelMakingGuru made his one using the playlist at Youtube Video .
I don't have the special edition version that he built in then videos so not so many decals and I'm planning to do the Rescue Version with the Red Stripes on the pod in the middle.