Captain Needa's Shuttle from ESB

darth_myeek

Damn skippy bro!

How the heck did you trim those itty bitty tile wedges? You are a home improvement m a d m a n!

Mike

GKvfx

Look again. It is a smaller can. Next time, I'm using a Coke bottle .

I didn't do anything save for the paint in that room. The house was (thankfully) in darn fine shape overall and just needed some paint to "customize" it...... Personally, I don't like that tile, but the first rule of home ownership dictates - "if it ain't broke, don't f@$%-ing try to fix it!"

Gene

GKvfx

.....and ...... if the house were square (anywhere) you wouldn't need itty bitty slivers of tile. This is the "view" from my upstairs hallway -



Paging M.C. Escher......

Gene

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qcfoundry

kinda wondered, but the proportions looked fatter (thus the full size)

Guy Cowen

RE CAST!

qcfoundry

as i'm going thru the new BR set, i was watching "anatomy of a dewback". go to the 16:53-ish mark, look on the shelf above yoda.
i don't have a great player and my pause has some serious motion blur to it, so i may be crying wolf -- but would def appreciate taking a second look at it and tell me what they think the blue,black,somewhat rectangular item is...??

robn1

Here are some caps.








And one enhanced.

qcfoundry

that was nutty quick. did you have them already to go? lol
thanks.
thoughts anybody?

Go Flight

Fantastic build. Sorry - just catching up with my reading.
What scale would you say this ship works out to?
If I were to use a 1:144 scale Sat V stage, do you think I could attempt this in my
beloved 1:72? TIA

JMChladek

I thought that WAS a 1/144 stage (S-2 stage specifically, Monogram did their kit in 1/144 like Airfix and Revell's 1/96 Saturn used wraps for the stage bodies). Only smaller stage I could see to slim the size down a little would be 1/200 from the AMT Man In Space rocket set, but I don't believe that would be small enough (1/48 perhaps).

Of course, one could try starting with a Revell Mini Vader's TIE for the wings and cockpit window (since it is close to 1/72 and since MPC Vader's TIE wings were used to make the TIE Bomber) and maybe try and scrounge some tubes in that scale to scratchbuild the body. The "scale" of the TIEs is somewhat up for debate among modelers, but if one goes by the LFL measurements, the MPC Vader's TIE kit is about 1/35, so if TIE Bomber variants (including the shuttle TIE) go by that as well, then 1/35 would be the "studio scale", or at least within the ballpark. To get one close to 1/72, one would essentially have to use a 1/288 Saturn V model and I know of none that had all the parts needed (Aoshima's is way too small and the prebuilt one I've seen listed as 1/288 is closer to 1/300 or smaller). More elements would need to be scratchbuilt, but I think it would be possible with the Revell Mini TIE parts.