Sneak Peak: Moonbase Alpha from Round 2

Look what showed up today!   Here’s an advance look at the Moonbase Alpha, coming soon!

siver199901Here’s the new box cover, featuring a build up of the redesigned kit.   You’ll notice that the layout is more complete than the previous version, featuring all the landing pads and a more symmetrical layout.  For comparison, here is the original box below.

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You’ll see that the original base was 18 x 12 inches and had a spot for the control room.

 

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The back of the box shows the new model built up.   The new base measures 17 x 17 inches.  The Command Center is intended to be displayed separately

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Here are the newly tooled parts, including five landing pads, correctly scaled Eagles, and travel tubes.   On the original kit, the tubes were molded into the vacuform base.

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Here are the four new vacuform panels for the base.  The original was just two panels.  This is much more accurate.

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New decals for the landing pads and the control room

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The original kit parts, including the three original landing pads and oversized Eagles

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And here is the Command Center.

And of course, this will be available soon in the CultTVman Hobbyshop

Thanks to the kind folks at Round 2 for sharing this advance release.