Eagle model for Real 3d.

This is a model of the Eagle the multipurpose spacecraft from the sci-fi
series 'Space 1999' for Real 3d. I have made it a year or two ago in V1.4
and recently i have upgraded for use with V2 and V3. (I have updated it in
V3, but have not used V3 specific things and a quick test in V2 showed no
problems)

Setting up is strait forward. Just import with load object and load the
materials with load matrials. Only the pad for the textures probably needs
to be altered. The pad is now: work, anim-file/eagle/textures  

I like my models to be as accurate as possible. To do this i have made use
of the well know model for Airfix. There had been one lying around in pieces
so i measured it, put everything down in 8 A3 drawings and used them as
reference. It is a proven method with works very well. For details not in
the model i referred to photos's from the book 'UFO and Space 1999' from
Chris Drake and published by Boxtree (ISBN 1 85283 393 9) , but mostly to
very old photo i had lying around from a broadcast magazine. (most likely
the Dutch AVRO bode),  because there are several different configurations
and it is difficult to pinpoint with's photo's are for with's model. 

Of course, being accurate also has it's drawbacks. You can forget about
rendering this model on a stock 1200. My Eagle most have at least around 10
MB. I have tried to degrade the size by making the panels from the landing-
gearboxes with bumpmaps, but i just can't get the right look so they remain
objects. Also the beak remained the same. It would have been great to do it
in B-splins, but again, i just couldn't get enough control it do it right,
and still have a reasonable amount of savings on memory used.

Despite these problems, i hope this model makes a nice addition to the
growing collection of sci-fi models for 3D rendering packages. At least it
is something else than the ***** version off the USS Enterprise.

This model is Public domain. apart from a reasonable amount to cover the
cost of coping the files no money should be charged for it.

I have put a lot of work in it so be fair, if you use it give the guy who
made it a little credit and don't act like you made it yourself. 

It may be altered for your own use but only the unaltered model with the 
accompanying files may be passed on. 

The copyrights to the original model belong probably to ITC. The original
model design is from Brain Johnson.

Designer for the Real 3d version : Albert Vermeule.
E-mail adress: dreamer@tref.nl

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