2001 A Space Odyssey - Moonbus

[adinelt]

Hi folks,

I am looking at modeling the moonbus from 2001 A Space Odyssey and was wondering if anyone here had or could point me to blueprints and photos of the model itself. I have already got the 27 photos from Martin Bower's website where he built a studio scale model of the moonbus. What I really need to get started are some blueprints showing all sides of the ship. I've Googled "2001 Moonbus Blueprints" and found a lot of images of the old plastic kits, but no good drawings. I do have the movie on Blu-ray, so should be able to get some screen grabs.

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance...
Al

 

[rbeach84]

In the alternative universe, you could just build Uhu-2's Moonbus papermodel (his Blog-sphere HERE.) But you'd need to become a Zealot first!
Seriously, joining Zealot and getting initiated such you can access Uhu's library to download his MB may lead you to the best reference you'll ever find.

Regards, Robert

 

[misterggg]

How about using my blueprints. Over 3 years of research and 1 to 1 scale.View attachment MOONBUS 36 X 48 LEFT SIDE.jpgView attachment MOONBUS 36 X 48 RIGHT SIDE.jpgView attachment MOONBUS 36 X 48 FRONT AND REAR.jpgView attachment MOONBUS 36 X 48 TOP SIDE.jpgView attachment MOONBUS 36 X 48 BOTTOM SIDE.jpg

 

[rbeach84]

Misterggg, very nice drawings. Thank you for sharing them here.
Seeing the date, I am aghast to think it was nearly 50 years ago!

Regards, Robert

 

[misterggg]

I am still not finished with them, in fact I just got some new information on the actual parts on the RCS thrusters and the prints need to be updated. I don't have all of the kit parts and have replaced some with what I thought they might be, however the scale is correct as far as my research has taken me. I would like to get all the kit parts but until David Larson comes out with his book everyone in the know is not talking.

 

[rbeach84]

Well, getting the 'measure of things' is half the battle, perhaps even 75%... still a wonderful bit of documentation and very useful to anyone interested in the subject.
R/ Robert

 

[joberg]

Good luck on the blueprint (and not a lot of detailed pics out there:cry) Blueprint is the bomb misterggg; TFS with us:cool

 

[stargazer1]

Hi great plans

your parts numbers 4 & 3 on the skids, this sheet http://www.therpf.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=483145&d=1432940509


are parts 59 and 26 from the 24scale revell gemini.
http://manuals.hobbico.com/rvl/80-0028.pdf

also part 13 on the rear door is Gemini part 28

 

[misterggg]

Thanks for the kind words everybody. Like many of us I use to have the original Aurora Moonbus as a kid. I also have this thing about BLUEPRINTS, I can not explain it they interest me in seeing how things are made especially when it comes to sci fi movie blueprints. I was wanting to make my own CAD model accurate to the studio model and make a set of blueprints that others could build from. I will keep working on them, recently JFB64 informed me of a part I didn't know of before. It is the hard to see shape attached to the rear sides of the RCS thrusters. its the steam pipe halves from the Airfix Rocket kit. . Thanks for the info and pdf file stargazer1.