Here is my build of the Lander from "Interstellar." I enlarged it from UHU02's model of the Endurance. While Endurance didn't do much for me, design-wise, I did like the Landers, meant to ferry cargo modules from Endurance to a planet's surface. They struck me as a utilitarian design with a nod to the Eagles of "Space:1999." Not sure what scale UHU02's Endurance is (1/96th?) but I decided to enlarge the Lander, more than doubling it in size.
I cut out all 44 flight deck windows and backed them with clear plastic. Since the flight deck has windows on the top, bottom and front, that results in a see-through model. I didn't want to go to the trouble of building an interior (maybe if the model were bigger...) so I backed the clear plastic with a dark-gray card.
I recessed the top and bottom airlock hatches and added the shutters covering the front four windows and the four windows on the top sides of the front. I used details from a second set of printouts to add some raised detail, including the rectangular hatches along the side of the nose. On the Eagle-esque outrigger pods, I punched out holes for the RCS nozzles, and also cut small rectangular openings in the front of the pods that I've seen in photos of the "real" vehicle.
Uhu02 has you glue the three rocket nozzles at the rear to a single piece which results in the nozzles being at an incorrect angle. I scratchbuilt a "step" piece for each side's nozzle housing so the nozzles would be angled properly and each parallel to the other. I used Uhu02's nozzles as a template to cut my own from dark gray cardstock, then glued them to black disks I cut with a circle cutter. I cut very thin strips of cardstock and glued them as "hatbands" on the nozzles.
I cut out all 44 flight deck windows and backed them with clear plastic. Since the flight deck has windows on the top, bottom and front, that results in a see-through model. I didn't want to go to the trouble of building an interior (maybe if the model were bigger...) so I backed the clear plastic with a dark-gray card.
I recessed the top and bottom airlock hatches and added the shutters covering the front four windows and the four windows on the top sides of the front. I used details from a second set of printouts to add some raised detail, including the rectangular hatches along the side of the nose. On the Eagle-esque outrigger pods, I punched out holes for the RCS nozzles, and also cut small rectangular openings in the front of the pods that I've seen in photos of the "real" vehicle.
Uhu02 has you glue the three rocket nozzles at the rear to a single piece which results in the nozzles being at an incorrect angle. I scratchbuilt a "step" piece for each side's nozzle housing so the nozzles would be angled properly and each parallel to the other. I used Uhu02's nozzles as a template to cut my own from dark gray cardstock, then glued them to black disks I cut with a circle cutter. I cut very thin strips of cardstock and glued them as "hatbands" on the nozzles.