Another upcoming UFO model -- the SID repair craft

Hi all,

Here's another upcoming UFO-related model, the "Dove"
from the movie "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun":

http://www.monstersinmotion.com/ships/dove.html

This was also the SID repair craft seen in the UFO
episode THE MAN WHO CAME BACK.

Marc

> This was also the SID repair craft seen in the UFO
> episode THE MAN WHO CAME BACK.
>
> Marc

Sorry, it wasn't the Dove but it did look a little similar.

Chiz,
Barry

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Are you certain????

They look quite different to me! The SID craft was much more angular in
appearence, while the Dove was well rounded and contoured. Maybe if the
model had been extensively modified or reworked....
I'll have to review the tape. Give me an excuse to re-watch JTTFSS for
about the 12th time!

Dave H.

> They look quite different to me! The SID craft was much more angular in
>appearence, while the Dove was well rounded and contoured. Maybe if the
>model had been extensively modified or reworked....

We've had 3 people point out to me that they were different, so I guess
they are! I just always assumed that they were the same craft, and that
UFO even reused footage from the movie. But I guess not!

Marc

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>
> We've had 3 people point out to me that they were different, so I guess
> they are! I just always assumed that they were the same craft, and that
> UFO even reused footage from the movie. But I guess not!
>
> Marc
>

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I particularly liked the launching sequence depicted in the movie. Some
of the exterior shots of that was cherry picked for "The Man Who Came Back".
My one complaint of the sequence in the movie is; the small model size
is so evident because of the filming speed. The model details and
craftsmanship was awesome, but they needed a serious overcranking on the
cameras to slow up the action and give it that feeling of grandios scale,
which is painfully missing, because the model pieces jiggling, smoke blowing
around the booster, and the rockets blast betray the small scale of the
models.
My favorite piece of hardware from that movie was that VTOL airliner
with the detachable passenger container that Col. Ross arrives on. Give it
some nose gear to stand on with the nose up, and it would be an awesome
idea.

Dave H.

> My favorite piece of hardware from that movie was that VTOL
airliner. Dave H.

I believe that model was modified for UFO and became the large SHADO
heavy jet transport.

Regards,
Barry

Marc,

they *are* different. I went to the trouble of making frame captures
from JFSS and the UFO ep MWCB and will send them to your files
section immediatly :-) Of course, it could be that Meddings & Co
reworked the Doppelgänger modul for the use in UFO. Sadly there is
no section about JFSS in Meddings "21st Century Visions" book (and no
word about the repair craft, either).

Christian