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Hi Richard, yeah the cockpit is looking fantastic and I think it compares really favourably to some of the other efforts out there. The multimedia aspect of it breaths life into an otherwise static environment. The blinking lights, the ambient sounds, the starfield and planets outside, the rest of the Eagle interior, and finally the Eagle flying along side you just outside the windows :-)

I continue to make progress with the addition of the control yokes, thrust levers, and the beginnings of what is the front Window wall. There are just two screenshots from the TV show that suggest what that front wall is supposed to look like but unfortunately they cover only a small portion of the entire wall, resulting in a certain amount of guess work for the rest. Everybody does it differently and even though I'd welcome suggestions, I have rationalisations for why I am doing mine the way that I am.

Here you can see that I'm playing with the idea of reusing some of the computer screens from the X5-Computer in the Passenger Pod. I thing it is in keeping with the design language of the original show but I'm curious to hear what other people think...

I like the view screens and I think it’s obvious that  Nick Tate had view screens in his mind when he was filming… One thing that we do know is that the film sets wouldn’t fit in the model dimensions.. with that in mind I do feel you view ports are far to small and would look far better being larger. 

Do you know what? I agree, the windows are comically way too small for the cockpit. You can see the rational for my initial choice of window size here…

https://youtu.be/NVFqvHOurn8?t=400

I think I spent too much effort trying to marry the interior with the exterior which resulted in a compromised interior set that by design was never meant to be constrained by the proportions of the exterior nose cone.

It pains me to do it but I’ll have a go at butchering the exterior nose cone in an attempt to make the windows bigger. I like the idea of sloping the windows in the way that I do, if for no other reason than to mirror what happens on the exterior of the Eagle model. Plus it adds some visual interest that might make the interior feel a little more dynamic :-)

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That’s brilliant, thank you.. I like the sloping windows too…and I’m sure you have but did you notice the description of windows from the catacombs website…


“The window (only the port window is ever seen) features in BreakawayRing Around The MoonAlpha ChildCollision CourseThe Full CircleSpace WarpThe Seance SpectreDevil's Planet and The Immunity Syndrome. The window(s) are supposedly located directly in front of the seated pilots while the screen is located between the pilots. They are never visible in side shots so they must be located in front of the extension of the set, i.e. some distance in front of the pilot console. This creates a continuity problem with the SFX miniature Eagle, so the "window" may in fact be a periscope like device. The use of fibre optics or prisms would allow the seated pilot an unobstructed view of the lunar surface during landing (the top windows would be largely useless for this purpose anyway).“

The idea of the windows being prisms is the best explanation for the windows in the eagle.. with the forward view being bent downward for the pilot to be able to see straight ahead.. could it not also be a protection from UV RAYS in someway…

Any way I look forward to all you future work. 

Regards, Richard