Absolutely fantastic job Lee! Looks like you nailed everything. When I heard about this project, I thought you guys were only sticking with the cab, so I am most impressed that you did the cargo pod as well.
All greeblies / leg braces / I-beam strip stock / piping wires to central leg tube and all piping by fuel cylinder tanks: Apr_22 M_2016_142 by Joseph C. Brown, on Flickr
That ship is one of my all time favorites- the design makes a lot of sense to me, a pragmatic, industrial space truck.
You did an excellent job recreating it!
A very vexing part was the round thing that covers the aft filming mount of the cargo section. It looks to be a wheel, but no car kit parts of any note had surfaced during the parts hunt, for any of the models used in the film, let alone this one... but while pawing thru all of the donor parts kit *one more time* the lower end caps of the Monogram Shuttle SRB leaped out at me. So, add to it a part from Tamiya SdKfz 222 Leichter Panzerspahwagen, a part from a Leopold (and a Hanomag wheel hub), and some small connectors and that gets me close to what seems to be there!
And mounted:
Under side now done - the best references for this section are very dark and momentary (often flopped or inverted!) scenes when the Jackers are attacking before Nell rescues Cowboy. Which means I had to guess at what model kit part goes with what murky shadow:
And the topside completed:
Now - I need to get the middle section sidewalls detailed, and then, throw primer over all the cargo section parts!
And, now: forward onto the seam-filling, touch-up priming over filling, base coat, decals, and final weathering. But that's nothing compared to what it has taken to get this far!
Not 'til Friday afternoon or evening you won't! And I'll have my Freman Tarpel Gun stowed in my Major Matt Mason Jetpack if I need it, so you haz been warned! :cool