Gerry Anderson's third live action series was originally intended to be a second series of "UFO". However, when the American networks pulled out of the deal, Gerry put the design work to use as a different scenario. Filmed between November 1973 and December 1976, Space 1999 was set in the then then future, where nuclear waste being stored on the Moon explodes in a radiation flare-up and hurls the Moon and the 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha on an epic trek across the universe where they encounter both friendly and unfriendly alien planets and space phenomenon.
I mostly use the Sixteen12 Eagles for my photoshoots, for which I built a matching 1/76 scale Observation Building, then more of Moonbase Alpha including Main Mission from cardboard and subsequently a launch pad to match. Lights in the windows achieved by placing a small LED torch inside the loose buildings which I arrange on silver sand..