OlCabour's Hangar

Main Mission is the command center of the Alpha moonbase, and one of the high places of the show, as lot's of key actions take place here during the first season. The particularity of thid place, beyond being the nerve center of the base, is its contiguity with the office of Commander Koenig. The latter, its almost symmetrical, separated by a huge sliding door, usually open, separating the two areas. They will not go one without the other and represent a whole place.

The Alpha moonbase kit (initially issued under MPC brand, was reissued by AMT in the late 90s) includes a small diorama of Main Mission (on a scale between 1 / 100 and HO). Unfortunately, Koenig office is totally wrong and undersized.

To correct it, I will use a second Alpha kit, and strongly modify it.

Two different ground blueprints coexist, in which the Koenig office seriously differs. I preferred to choose the simplicity, so I use the version where the two parts are of the same surface.

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After cutting, re-arranging, gluing and filling, the floor of the office is corrected.

The separation wall is made from the same parts from the two kits. The office of Koenig is on one level, so the top of the wall is cut out to be removed.

I have now to prepare new walls for the office. I made a mold of a first wall from the original kit, and then prepared a new master by modifying a first copy (the mid-height horizontal strip is corrected). A second master integrates a

door made using plastic strip and photoetched for the control panel.

As I was there, I made molds of various parts of the kit original walls in order to achieve all possible combinations in case other ideas germinate later.

Creation of a terminal of a communication terminal, using a plastic rod (from a Chinese restaurant).

As this dio looked really tiny finally, I quickly asked myself if I would include it in a part of Main Mission Tower to highlight it.