Fine Molds Slave 1 finished the build!

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blakeh1

Sr Member

• Apr 1, 2015

• #61

Re: Fine Molds Slave 1 build. Finally started on the LEDs

knievel said:

thx Randy! Can't wait till thursday to see all the lights working.

After spending so much time on the paintscheme of the Slave, I noticed something odd today in the actual movie footage:
The paintjob just seemed off. At first I thought I was looking at an image of somebody's model build, then I realized:

The image of the slave is flipped when boarding ! When it flies off, it's the okay. No clue why they made that mistake during filming. Maybe they wanted to show the hangar door on the blue screen, but decided to do it differently in the edit with the open space of the clouds.

I flipped it back. So this is how they shot it originally. Makes no sense now, since the ship flips between two scenes.. Hence my presumption the background was planned differently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEGp1sicu4E&feature=youtu.be

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I believe that shot you have attached is actually a Matte painting. Not sure if the painting was done incorrectly in the first place, or was flipped

 

knievel

Active Member

• Apr 1, 2015

• #62

Re: Fine Molds Slave 1 build. Finally started on the LEDs

blakeh1 said:

I believe that shot you have attached is actually a Matte painting. Not sure if the painting was done incorrectly in the first place, or was flipped
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Good reference pic! From the looks of it, they delivered a flipped image to the artist

 

jake88

Sr Member

• Apr 1, 2015

• #63

Re: Fine Molds Slave 1 build. Finally started on the LEDs

I tried and tried to replicate your skirt paint but cant come close. So awesome!

 

knievel

Active Member

• Apr 2, 2015

• #64

Re: Fine Molds Slave 1 build. Finally started on the LEDs

jake88 said:

I tried and tried to replicate your skirt paint but cant come close. So awesome!

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Yeah, it's one of the hardest things on this build I agree. The airbrushing is done in minutes, but the masking from reference is a long proces for every layer. Even I found it hard to replicate it on that second build.

 

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danikin72

Active Member

• Apr 2, 2015

• #65

Re: Fine Molds Slave 1 build. Finally started on the LEDs

They did that with boba in Jabbas throne room too, the eye piece is on the wrong side.
It may have been an oversight but when they were editing the film cells they may have turned them around and spliced them backwards and no one caught it.
Fun movie stuff all through out the saga, if your looking for it.

 

Clerval

Sr Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Apr 2, 2015

• #66

Re: Fine Molds Slave 1 build. Finally started on the LEDs

The matte is a mounted photo with a painted canopy and environment.

 

knievel

Active Member

• Apr 2, 2015

• #67

Re: Fine Molds Slave 1 build. Finally started on the LEDs

Quick sneak peak, not much time:
long day yesterday, installing the light and doing final assembly.

more pictures and video to come!

 

knievel

Active Member

• Apr 3, 2015

• #68

Here's a rough cut video of the working lights. Didn't have time to cut it better, since I'm going to my brother for the weekend. But I wanted to share this before I go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGzkhEuOJY0&feature=youtu.be

 

Randy13

Sr Member

• Apr 3, 2015

• #69

This is an amazing job you've done! I love the lights and base looks awesome. You even have working lights in the HIC. :eek I would like to see more pictures and videos of this.

 

joberg

Legendary Member

• Apr 3, 2015

• #70

Great vid and the cockpit lights are looking great for sure:cool (and thanks for mentioning my Space Station build)

 

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blakeh1

Sr Member

• Apr 3, 2015

• #71

Excellent work. Cool stand as well

 

jake88

Sr Member

• Apr 4, 2015

• #72

That's gotta be the best Slave 1 Ive seen to date! Congratulations you owned that one!

 

knievel

Active Member

• Apr 4, 2015

• #73

Thank you guys for the kind words!
Had some fun in after effects (did I mention I'm a cameraman/editor)
So here's a film corrected shot of the move with the model in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJPDRIBxCho&feature=youtu.be

 

knievel

Active Member

• Apr 4, 2015

• #74

Randy13 said:

This is an amazing job you've done! I love the lights and base looks awesome. You even have working lights in the HIC. :eek I would like to see more pictures and videos of this.

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Yeah, drilling through it with a 0.25mm was terrible, since it's die cast metal, not plastic. Otherwise it would have been littered with light too

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Randy13 said:

This is an amazing job you've done! I love the lights and base looks awesome. You even have working lights in the HIC. :eek I would like to see more pictures and videos of this.

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Yeah, drilling through it with a 0.25mm was terrible, since it's die cast metal, not plastic. Otherwise it would have been littered with light too

 

knievel

Active Member

• Apr 5, 2015

• #75

Finished my video of the model so enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg-Xva9727Y&feature=youtu.be
Some great side effect when the battery runs low: engine and ceiling leds start flashing too in a random order! (all those leds suck the battery dry in a couple of hours, but hey, it's rechargable )


something else that might be interesting to the community:
Jos, who made the adjustable ledboard for me said that now he's worked out the schematics for the board we might get it into production if enough people are interested.
It can be used for any other build that needs some flashing and can be made pretty small. dimensions of the prototype are 5x4x1.5 mm. Think it can be reduced to 4x3x1.5mm or smaller. Here's a peak inside.

Still need to tidy up the inside

 

Last edited: Apr 5, 2015

jake88

Sr Member

• Apr 5, 2015

• #76

ILM called, they want their model back, and they commented how much better it looks too! AMAZING! seriously,, you hit a grand slam with this one.

 

astroboy

Master Member

• Apr 5, 2015

• #77

You should seriously think about putting that lighting package out as a kit!!!!

 

knievel

Active Member

• Apr 6, 2015

• #78

As promised so more pictures of the model. Could use some more wheatering at some spots maybe. What do you think?
Afraid to kill it if I do to much. Would like to get the panel lines out with a wash, but haven't mastered that technique...

 

Randy13

Sr Member

• Apr 6, 2015

• #79

That second video looks great! Looking closer at these new pictures, a little more weathering wouldn't hurt.

 

knievel

Active Member

• Apr 6, 2015

• #80

astroboy said:

You should seriously think about putting that lighting package out as a kit!!!!

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Thank you astroboy, we definitely are!
As soon as Jos finds the time he will get the print plate made. People interested can PM me.