Space 1999

Anonymous

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Space 1999

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 1, 2003 5:22 PM

Looking for info on an Eagle Transport kit from the above series. Anyone know where a kit could be obtained or if there may be a reissue in the near future?

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 1, 2003 7:05 PM

There was a reissue in the near past so I would suggest Ebay or some of the online resin oriented stores like Federation Models.

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Rob Gronovius

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December 2002
From: Fort Knox

Posted by Rob Gronovius on Monday, September 1, 2003 8:47 PM

He's right. It was reissued while I was stationed in NJ so it would have been about 1999-2000. I remember them going for $9.99 in the Toys R Us. They went quickly.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 1, 2003 9:27 PM

Thanks for the information

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 4:04 AM

Has anyone here built the reissued kit? How did it go?

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J-Hulk

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February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 5:34 AM

Hi, memeau!
It's a pretty straightforward build out of the box.
If you want it accurate, weeelll, that's another story!
Wasn't there a good article in FSM about that in the last year or so?
Was that the AMT/Ertl re-release, or the smaller Arii release?
I'll dig through my back issues.

~Brian

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 8:59 AM

Careful! Those kits are very inacurrate.(as in , not even close) However to get an accurate kit you have to work. I bought Warp's 1 foot multimedia kit and another 2 foot multimedia kit. these are very primative and you can expect to spend a lot (a real lot) of time cleaning up cast metal and resin parts. I started to clean up just the metal parts and got sick of it enough to buy brass tubing to construct my own framework.

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rossjr

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February 2003
From: Minneapolis, MN

Posted by rossjr on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 9:18 AM

The resissue is the same kit that was available back in the 70's and 80's. I have and have built both. I also bought James Small's authentication kit for it but haven't used it yet. Federation also has another larger multi-media kit available.

Sorry for the dust and this one was straight from the box......

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 10:50 AM

Once upon a time Airfix issued both the the Eagle Transporter and Hawk Fighter.
They must be due for a reissue soon.

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rossjr

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February 2003
From: Minneapolis, MN

Posted by rossjr on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 1:00 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by oggy4624

Once upon a time Airfix issued both the the Eagle Transporter and Hawk Fighter.
They must be due for a reissue soon.

I think both of these were licensed from the same molds that AMT/Ertl owned, similar to the Orion Shuttle that Aurora had at one time, so unless they bought the molds or re-licensed them from AMT/Ertl I am not sure you will see the Airfix reissue. The Hawk especially, I was really disappointed that Ertl reissued the moonbase model and not the Hawk. Sad [:(]

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 4:07 PM

If I'm not mistaken the Hawk kit molds were either lost or damaged. The Airfix Orion was a completely different tooling than the Aurora kit as well.

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J-Hulk

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February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 12:57 AM

Speaking o' Hawks, found one at a local shop the other day. 7,000 yen! That's about 60 bux US. Is that expensive?
Was the company FunDimensions back then? I think that's what was on the box.
I'll check it again!

~Brian

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 9:54 AM

That is a kosher item and a great price.

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rossjr

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February 2003
From: Minneapolis, MN

Posted by rossjr on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 10:37 AM

$60 bucks is about the going rate on e-bay. I could kick myself as this used to be a kit that sold for less than $10. I have one now and I am afraid to build it....

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J-Hulk

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February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 10:59 AM

I've got an original Hawk in my collection (built) back in the States, but I'd love to build another one!
Hmmmm...gonna go see if it's still there!

~Brian

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 4, 2003 9:56 PM

Alright dumb question:

Does the series ever come on Sci-Fi or anything?

Havent seen it since the 70's

anyone want to trade for a Robotech???
The revell robotech's made in the 80's

-Firemann816

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J-Hulk

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From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Friday, September 5, 2003 5:47 AM

Comes on "SuperChannel" here all the time, along with a slew of other Gerrry Anderson shows.

~Brian

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rossjr

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February 2003
From: Minneapolis, MN

Posted by rossjr on Friday, September 5, 2003 10:09 AM

I thought I'd seen it a couple of times on the Sci-Fi channel on one of their marathon weekends, otherwise check out your local video store you might be able to rent a few DVD's. I bought a couple sets at Best Buy so I could get some good reference shots. I especially wanted to get the episode "War Games".

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cmtaylor

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February 2003
From: United Kingdom

Posted by cmtaylor on Friday, September 5, 2003 3:02 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by rossjr

$60 bucks is about the going rate on e-bay. I could kick myself as this used to be a kit that sold for less than $10. I have one now and I am afraid to build it....

Alternatively, you could scratchbuild your own...

http://cmtaylor.members.beeb.net/Hawk.htm

It only cost me £200 for the parts!

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here; this is the WAR ROOM!

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Rob Gronovius

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December 2002
From: Fort Knox

Posted by Rob Gronovius on Friday, September 5, 2003 4:26 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by firemann816

Alright dumb question:

Does the series ever come on Sci-Fi or anything?

Havent seen it since the 70's

anyone want to trade for a Robotech???
The revell robotech's made in the 80's

-Firemann816

I remember those kits, they were my first mecha kits. I still have a bunch of them badly built in an old paper box. Which ones do you have?

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rossjr

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February 2003
From: Minneapolis, MN

Posted by rossjr on Monday, September 8, 2003 9:03 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by cmtaylor

QUOTE: Originally posted by rossjr

$60 bucks is about the going rate on e-bay. I could kick myself as this used to be a kit that sold for less than $10. I have one now and I am afraid to build it....

Alternatively, you could scratchbuild your own...

http://cmtaylor.members.beeb.net/Hawk.htm

It only cost me £200 for the parts!

Nice work! Although I love the subject I, not sure I would spend $300US to build one. Besides, scratch building isn't one of my strengths...

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cmtaylor

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February 2003
From: United Kingdom

Posted by cmtaylor on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 4:26 PM

QUOTE:

Nice work! Although I love the subject I, not sure I would spend $300US to build one. Besides, scratch building isn't one of my strengths...

Well, it IS studio scale!

Scratchbuilding wasn't one of my strengths until I practised!

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here; this is the WAR ROOM!

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dnatech

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December 2003

Posted by dnatech on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:04 PM

The Series is available on DVD now. I have the first Boxed set. I think ther are 8 boxed sets, each with 2 DVDs.
Steve

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:21 AM

dnatech is right on the DVD's. I have the first season. Only works for nostalgia, the show really stinks. I also have the reissue and the 12" multimedia kit and a 22" multimedia kit. If you go for the multimedia kits, be prepared to spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time cleaning up metal and resin pieces. I started both and have pretty much given up. I bought some brass tubing to scratchbuild my own framework because I think that would be easier that cleaning the metal parts. The plastic kits are horribly inacurate, even with conversions.

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