For me, the Discovery is
the icon of this film. She epitomizes all of my hopes and dreams for the
future of human exploration.
I still get chills down my spine
to this very day every time I see this graceful yet odd-looking spacecraft
gliding majestically across the
screen.
This is a model I have wanted to
build my entire life, so when I read that
Stargazer
Models had released a new kit of it, I jumped on it!
ASSEMBLY
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| This is the first model I've done
with lighting! |
Here's one of the spacesuits that
is in the EVA Pod Bay, as seen in the film. Paint bottle for scale. |
The center EVA Pod being
deployed from the Bay |
THE FINISHED MODEL
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command module |
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| Top/front view | Top/rear view | Spine and primary antenna array |
Two special effects pictures:
Left: Discovery at
Jupiter, as in the movie. The small red cresent above Jupiter is
Io,
which would serve as the location
for another sci-fi film made years later, called "Outland".
Right: Discovery among
the moons of Saturn, which is where the
story took place in the book, written
by Arthur C. Clarke. Image courtesy of Mr. David M Harland
Thank You, Herb Gara at
Uberhobby.com
and ModelMakerZ for choosing
my model for First Place in
their first on-line
mode building contest.
I'd also like to say Thank
You to Mr. Craig Skare from Cir-Kit
Concepts,
who was extremely helpful with
the lighting of this model project.
This being my first model with
that feature, he literally wrote me a list of parts I needed and then
walked me through putting it
all together. I highly recommend his products.
Lastly, Thank You to Mr. David M. Harland for the computer generated image of Discovery at Saturn.
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