newmagrathea
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I'll see if I can blow this up some. Unfortunately whoever posted the pic on the website shrank it to load faster.
DL-44 ESB Blaster Discussion - Greeblies POST 208
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I'll see if I can blow this up some. Unfortunately whoever posted the pic on the website shrank it to load faster.
newmagrathea
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Yeah, it's all pixelated when I blow it up.
I think that brassyness is from the lights being yellowish. I did a little color correction to fix that.
I think that brassyness is from the lights being yellowish. I did a little color correction to fix that.
It looked a bit brassy in real life (the spacer under the bracket). I'll double check this next time. It was too busy to lean down and look for long.
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@newmagrathea Have one more. There is a great pic of the DL-44 in the link below.
http://top.tsite.jp/entertainment/cinema/i/23473389/
this one is a hell of a lot better than my ninja photography. Grips look painted, brown showing beneath.
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@newmagrathea Have one more. There is a great pic of the DL-44 in the link below.
http://top.tsite.jp/entertainment/cinema/i/23473389/
this one is a hell of a lot better than my ninja photography. Grips look painted, brown showing beneath.
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I had the same impression. This is good timing for you with your build, right? Haha
I really want to build this blaster now, as I've seen it for real and it is only an MGC (not a real mauser, an impossibility for a Brit/Japan resident). I've got Bobadebt's Bespin luke parts on the way though :lol I might stash them away and keep my MGC a virgin until I find the Hoth bits. (Do any parts need remade based on new pics? I'll try do my best to get flash hider reference)
Flash hider, for sure. BobaDebt's done a dagummed great job with the scope bracket, Thorens disc and scopes. I'm not sure what he was offering regarding spacers for the bracket, but they may need to be modified to make them a hair taller.
He definitely did one hell of an amazing job with this last project, that's for sure.
He definitely did one hell of an amazing job with this last project, that's for sure.
Lichtbringer
Master Member
In the movie it definately had brown grips.
So it´s probably painted after the movie, maybe even a complete later rebuild. Unfortunately that makes those todays pics look more or less unreliable, we can´t know what is accurate and what has been changed since filming.
So it´s probably painted after the movie, maybe even a complete later rebuild. Unfortunately that makes those todays pics look more or less unreliable, we can´t know what is accurate and what has been changed since filming.
That's a good catch. The one at the exhibition matches this one
The weathering patches (although it is more scratched now) and the wonky front scope bolt match. What is the context of the above image?
I don't think it was built for the Visions show. All the replica stuff looked like trash and was labelled as a replica. This had the "Lucasfilm Museum of Narrative Art" tag - whatever that means.
Google only throws up some magazine about props. The pic looks like it is from around 2007
It's from the archives though it seems.
The weathering patches (although it is more scratched now) and the wonky front scope bolt match. What is the context of the above image?
I don't think it was built for the Visions show. All the replica stuff looked like trash and was labelled as a replica. This had the "Lucasfilm Museum of Narrative Art" tag - whatever that means.
Google only throws up some magazine about props. The pic looks like it is from around 2007
It's from the archives though it seems.
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Lichtbringer
Master Member
As long as an item is not in the state of the movie anymore, it still might be the same as while filming, and from the archives - just with a different appearance.
It´s not the first altered item, such information might still be valid in parts, but needs to be taken with caution. It might have been damaged while filming, later fixed for the archives, just not the same way as it was.
It´s not the first altered item, such information might still be valid in parts, but needs to be taken with caution. It might have been damaged while filming, later fixed for the archives, just not the same way as it was.
Lichtbringer
Master Member
But parts can still be used. I think we can give the most parts a go on it´s own, like the flashhider, .....
My hunch is that the flash hider is at least the same. I will sneak pics of it. I also have a peek underneath to see if the grip on the other side is brown :lol
I was joking that that the side we see in the movie is brown, the side we see now is black - maybe one side is black and the other is brown haha.
Sorry, people say that to me everyday while living here. I'm used to rephrashing 3 or 4 times :lol
Lichtbringer
Master Member
We can´t trust the blaster as it is now. But even after fixing it (altering it, ruining it, ....) for the archives most parts can be used for reference ..... Flashhider, MGC, maybe the scopemount, ....
But we can´t trust any assembly or painting without pics from the movie that proove any detail.
Maybe the scopemount was in the movie closer to the receiver, maybe not. Any todays pictures might give new insights, but we don´t know if they are accurate, not without evidence directly from the time of filming the item.
But we can´t trust any assembly or painting without pics from the movie that proove any detail.
Maybe the scopemount was in the movie closer to the receiver, maybe not. Any todays pictures might give new insights, but we don´t know if they are accurate, not without evidence directly from the time of filming the item.
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