I would need a lot of lightning bolts to hold mine up, its quite heavy, I printed a lot of the parts solid for strength. Nice project though. I downloaded 100s of pics to copy paintschemes from. I found the website of the guy that undertook the restoration of an original model used for filming. If I remember correctly, it was scorched in places from pyro effects and covered in 'lunar dust'. The brass framework was in pretty bad shape too. My 3d printed one is pretty well detailed and has potential for some super detailing. Years ago I had the urge to build one from scratch, traced out the frames,landing gear pods, etc etc. Then I worked out it was going to cost me a fortune in brass tubing. The added detailing on the original was parts from many different plastic kits available at that time, a lot of them now very rare (expensive)
To scratch build these would have to be a labour of love.
Getting the 3d printer for my birthday a few years ago, and then finding the eagle in different sizes was a stroke of luck, certainly saved me a small fortune in brass tube. 😁
And of course a few hundred, maybe thousand hours of scratchbuilding. I have added my own take on it for fitting the parts to the main ladder frame, they are held on with strips of ice cream tub plastic around the tubes and pla filament 'rivet pins' through holes in the ice cream tub plasic to anchor them. I have only mushroomed one end of the rivets so far, so they can be removed for painting the parts separately, which I have still to get round to doing 😁.