Joseph C. Brown
Sr Member
Bump!
Two weeks to go... depending if you go by the show dates or travel time.
Two weeks to go... depending if you go by the show dates or travel time.
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Ghastlyjeff
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I'll be there...
JMChladek
Sr Member
Oh my! It looks just like the images of its inspiration!!! Looks like my camera is going to have to shoot at least a few pictures of this one.
So when the decision was made to go with red stripes instead of blue, did they add to the weathering on the model? Or did it stay more or less the same overall, just with different stripe colorings?
So when the decision was made to go with red stripes instead of blue, did they add to the weathering on the model? Or did it stay more or less the same overall, just with different stripe colorings?
steveo
Sr Member
steveo
Sr Member
I hope they are there both days!
RE: Blue 1 - yeah, it was re-weathered. They painted over the blues, added one more stripe for Red 2, painted the cockpit canopy, added a decal (or more likely, swapped out laser cannons with one of the original Hero-painted Pyros!!!), added an artoo, broke the canopy bars out (to insert a cockpit and pilot), grafted in thinner weird canopy bars, possibly retrofitted the thing for lighting (because the engine bodies look broken/reglued, and the surgical tubing looks to be aggressively punched into the wing areas), modified the armature (almost crudely at the wing roots), shot some darker grey coloration, some soot, drew weird extra blue/gray lines on the engines - it looked brighter/whiter as Blue 1, and the more familiar putty color as Red 2, at least ten years ago.
RE: Blue 1 - yeah, it was re-weathered. They painted over the blues, added one more stripe for Red 2, painted the cockpit canopy, added a decal (or more likely, swapped out laser cannons with one of the original Hero-painted Pyros!!!), added an artoo, broke the canopy bars out (to insert a cockpit and pilot), grafted in thinner weird canopy bars, possibly retrofitted the thing for lighting (because the engine bodies look broken/reglued, and the surgical tubing looks to be aggressively punched into the wing areas), modified the armature (almost crudely at the wing roots), shot some darker grey coloration, some soot, drew weird extra blue/gray lines on the engines - it looked brighter/whiter as Blue 1, and the more familiar putty color as Red 2, at least ten years ago.
darth_myeek
Sr Member
"The great-grand pappy of all x-wings."
I totally predict two very talented old-timers are going to smile.
darth_myeek
Sr Member
Well Lorne Peterson is a scream, Jason. You can talk details and technique with him until your heart is content. He geeks out so hard!:love
Oh, and I'd kill to be within driving distance.
Oh, and I'd kill to be within driving distance.
Still jazzed. Lorne Peterson sounds co cool from what I've heard - gonna be a trip!! Pat McClung is a cool guy too (met him a couple years ago) - he made the Probe Droid pods, so that'll be cool - I'm bringing mine! Last tim ewe talked, I was still planning/building them, and he was surprised someone would care, lol - I told him how much time and effort people like Lee put into them, and he was impressed (or scared - hehe).
And we'll have Gene K's beard, so I won't feel as bad
And we'll have Gene K's beard, so I won't feel as bad
Yeah! Great stuff!!!!!!
Sounds like a great event, with all you guys and those ILM pros in the same place.
Would you mind asking if they remember how exactly Capt. Needa's shuttle looked like? I know they used a TIE ship and attached the wings / radiator panels (from Vader's fighter) inside out - i.e. bent outboard.
*BUT* what model did they use for the fuse? The MPC Vader, a SS bomber, something else?
I am researching for 3 decades now, but have no definite answer... Any help would hence be greatly appreciated!
Sorry for the hijack.
Cheers and have a good time,
Falk
Colin Droidmilk
Sr Member
Sounds great. I'm envious. If I were going, I'd take my V3 and a stack of hero x ref in the hope of asking the ILMers for an appraisal re fuselage proportions. They quite possibly would not have an opinion given it was so long ago that they were in the same room as an ILM X-wing but then again, they might, you never know...or they might say, 'well, whatever the difference, it's so meaningless you must be an insane and dangerously anal freak not to be satisfied with this gorgeous kit', lol...
If you'd like to, sure - put it on the table with my Blue 1?
Do you have any other studio scale models?
Guys, I doubt Lorne Peterson is going to remember the millimeters on an X-Wing (why would he care, lol?) they were all a little different anyway, right? I'll ask about Needa's shuttle - I had no idea they did that! Where is it in the film?!
Pat McClung built the Probe Droid pods, and I chatted him up about them last year, so it'll be nice to show him the follow through.
I have a Slave 1 armature question for Lorne Peterson, but honestly, it's probably silly to expect any "HARD ANSWERS" that nerds like us crave. Now, if he has a drawing or a photo, there's your answers. But oral recollections? I can't remember how I built a model I made a couple years ago, how can we think they'd remember something from 1975 or 1979?
Do you have any other studio scale models?
Guys, I doubt Lorne Peterson is going to remember the millimeters on an X-Wing (why would he care, lol?) they were all a little different anyway, right? I'll ask about Needa's shuttle - I had no idea they did that! Where is it in the film?!
Pat McClung built the Probe Droid pods, and I chatted him up about them last year, so it'll be nice to show him the follow through.
I have a Slave 1 armature question for Lorne Peterson, but honestly, it's probably silly to expect any "HARD ANSWERS" that nerds like us crave. Now, if he has a drawing or a photo, there's your answers. But oral recollections? I can't remember how I built a model I made a couple years ago, how can we think they'd remember something from 1975 or 1979?
