Altares under construction. by Greywolf Starkiller
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Building this obscure, but awesome, ship is interesting as there are few references for it. A few decent pics on Martin Bower's Facebook page was enough to get it started, and another Facebook page had pics of a completed replica of the model and provided more detail. Getting there. :)
Comments (3)
MarcoCraine
That's quite a beautifully-crafted model. Also, thanks for pointing me to a Gerry Anderson work that I didn't even know existed.
coyoteviper
awesome. I really like the models you have done, and this one looks like its going to be right in there too.
Redfern
Sweet merciful Mogg1 The "Lightship" Altares!!!
I've long hoped you'd attempt this vessel. Even at this stage, it is a beaut'!
I vividly remember when "The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity" aired upon NBC as part of its young adult weekday afternoon specials (competing with the "ABC After School Special"). I set up my audio cassette recorder using a cord to bridge the earphone jack of my bedroom TV with the audio input jack of the recorder, thus insuring it would not record any outside "noise". (I brought that setup into the den so I could still see it in color on the 19 inch Zenith set. My 13 inch bedroom TV was B/W.) For those wondering why didn't I use a VCR, this was 1976, still a few years before domestic video recording/playback devices became affordable..
For those wondering, the special was dramatization illustrating aspects about Einstein's theory of general and special "Relativity". Two families board a craft powered by a "photon drive" which that pilot to Alpha Centauri at nearly the speed of light (no magic carpet warp or hyperdrives here). Afterwards they vote to venture ever farther but they are plagued with a series of mishaps eventually leaving them, well, I loathe to use the phrase, but lost in space. It was hoped this special might serve as a "backdoor" pilot for a new series, which, alas, it failed to do.
It was created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson produced between the first and second seasons of "Space: 1999", employing much of the same creative personnel. It starred Nick Tate (better known as Eagle pilot Alan Carter) as the commander and Brian Blessed (who's surprisingly subdued in his role) as one of the mission specialists.
I think I played that cassette until the read/write heads rubbed off the ferric coating.
Anyway, I've loved the Altares since I first saw it. I figured if anybody could do this ship justice, it would be you, GreyWolf! I'll admit my greed. I want that ship! If there's a way to "bribe" you short of criminal activity, I just might do so!
Sincerely,
Bill