Bandai 1/48 a-wing

DARTH SABER said:
Hope these help.
BTW, looks like one of the pilots tied one on before his mission. lol

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Ha. What book is that from?


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Looks like it's great for reference. Do you know anywhere in the states that has it? Any other books that are comparable?


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BobaTi said:
Looks like it's great for reference. Do you know anywhere in the states that has it? Any other books that are comparable?


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Unfortunately nowhere in the states that I know of.

I had to create an account on Amazon Japan to get it


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pave spectre said:
For completeness sake, I managed to find part of the info I referred to earlier. HERE
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Very cool!

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DARTH SABER said:
Hope these help.
BTW, looks like one of the pilots tied one on before his mission. lol

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/ignatz/Bandai Vader TIE/IMG_3419_zpsmeknhku3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/ignatz/Bandai Vader TIE/IMG_3420_zpsygv66bhz.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/ignatz/Bandai Vader TIE/IMG_3421_zpstc6gbe5s.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/ignatz/Bandai Vader TIE/IMG_3422_zpsp2rlvqsl.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/ignatz/Bandai Vader TIE/IMG_3423_zpsa0zotpff.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/ignatz/Bandai Vader TIE/IMG_3424_zpshkp8ptys.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/ignatz/Bandai Vader TIE/IMG_3426_zpsnsimxbpx.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/ignatz/Bandai Vader TIE/IMG_3427_zps8zwpayxu.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/ignatz/Bandai Vader TIE/IMG_3428_zpszhiblw67.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/ignatz/Bandai Vader TIE/IMG_3429_zpsfyphidje.jpg
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Those are amazing!!!!!

I always knew that there were at least 2 studio models made. But it seems that there was a third, damaged one!!!!
 
astroboy said:
For folks looking at the whole scale question, here are two pics with each scale of x-wing!

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums...ng/a-wing/IMG_20170512_152202_zpsbgt8cdzl.jpg
http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums...ng/a-wing/IMG_20170512_152316_zps9zazcpcx.jpg


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I'm calling mine 48th!..........although if you go with the actual filming model it would be almost 35th:(

It's even worse on the snowspeeder where their enormous bobble heads fill the cockpit window frames!:lol equally sized bodies could never fit inside:facepalm

Personally I won't critisize anyone's scale interpretations for either ship
 
Now let's look at the (oddly) enough only pic where the A-wing is actually in scale with other familiar rebel ships. I know it's a matte painting, But it is still all we have.

I'd say that there is a strong case for converting this to 1/48!
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AH HA!.........cannon!:D

and I will show these pictures to anyone who doubts my scale wisdom!:cool


Seriously though...dang! it's almost as small as just the front of the y-wing!
 
sithman66 said:
AH HA!.........cannon!:D

and I will show these pictures to anyone who doubts my scale wisdom!:cool


Seriously though...dang! it's almost as small as just the front of the y-wing!
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I've said this before, but those official numbers on star wars.com are just stats typed in by employees. I highly doubt the story group is going over the films with calipers to come up with the dimensions.

I will continually look for images from the films in order to find my scale.

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Dozer said:
Nice work, and very instructive.

Was not aware of these scale issues with the a-wing.., since it can be interpreted as 1/48 now i want one :eek
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Personally, I think they based the size of this A-wing off of the mcquarrie art (which is what influenced the Rebels A-wing) rather than the studio models

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astroboy said:
Personally, I think they based the size of this A-wing off of the mcquarrie art (which is what influenced the Rebels A-wing) rather than the studio models

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There were two studio models, I think Bandai based the scale on the one that Lucasfilm gave them, the official dimensions & scale

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.....the paint scheme though is of the other model, the model with the red panel on the hull, seen in the film crashing into the bridge of the Executor flown by Arvel Crynyd

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It's a shame that there is confusion over these two models.....but Bandai have the official measurements of what LFL say this bird is

J
 
Jaitea said:
There is some ambiguity in scales in ROTJ....also the Blockade Runner

http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag383/jaitea1/A-Wing/Blockade_zps91sxi33n.png

http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag383/jaitea1/A-Wing/Blockade 2_zps6nubld5h.png

....You must do what you think is right ....of course

J
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oh gawd yeah! the blockade runner!

How many sizes have they portrayed on screen alone?:facepalm

Almost like the KBOP in Star Trek the voyage home!

between the model, official size listing, scene where they enlarged it greatly and big enough to hold two whales, some of my modelling friends almost took a stroke!:lol
 
sithman66 said:
oh gawd yeah! the blockade runner!

How many sizes have they portrayed on screen alone?:facepalm

Almost like the KBOP in Star Trek the voyage home!

between the model, official size listing, scene where they enlarged it greatly and big enough to hold two whales, some of my modelling friends almost took a stroke![emoji38]
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I think a huge part of the issue with the blockade runner is that they essentially made the model to be the falcon. So when it became the tantive 4, they just waved a magic wand and it was a different size. Even the missing escape pods on the ship were the ones the imperials talked about in the movie.

And it look like the escape pods are actually seen along the bottom....which also looks like it should help in scaling it. But for some reason, the officially measurements have it a lot larger than it seems in my books

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astroboy said:
I think a huge part of the issue with the blockade runner is that they essentially made the model to be the falcon. So when it became the tantive 4, they just waved a magic wand and it was a different size. Even the missing escape pods on the ship were the ones the imperials talked about in the movie.

And it look like the escape pods are actually seen along the bottom....which also looks like it should help in scaling it. But for some reason, the officially measurements have it a lot larger than it seems in my books



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until you see it again in the prequels where it is small enough to have landing gear and barely big enough for obi wan to land a single seat fighter in!
 
sithman66 said:
until you see it again in the prequels where it is small enough to have landing gear and barely big enough for obi wan to land a single seat fighter in!
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It's not just the prequels. It looks incredibly small on rebels, too.

I wish they would actually scale these things the way they list them in canon.

I work in a theatre where the stage is roughly the size of the "official" canon size. But in no way is the falcon ever shown to be that big.

Same with the ghost and the twilight (from the clone wars)

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