Sorry Suburban Machine Company, I guess I took this statement to literally-
"Studio Scale is largely about replicating the dimensions, construction, and parts (if kit bashed) of a filming miniature."
That would seem to not cover a SS resin kit. All good.
See funboy, this is where articulating the words Studio Scale and scale (1/24, 1/48, etc) can become tricky when trying to answer this broad based question, what is Studio Scale. Others have correctly said that it describes a replica of a filming miniature that is the same in size and detail. That includes a completely scratch built model using original sourced model kit parts, detail parts, or whatever was actually used to build the original filming miniature. Studio Scale also covers some resin model kits, like the Salzo X-Wing, that match the filming miniature as well, but in kit form for a builder to assemble.
When asking what scale a filming miniature is, as in is it 1/24, 1/48, etc, that is open for debate as their usually is no real world, full size counterpart to compare it to.
I do believe that there is enough evidence in a lot of filming miniatures, not all, that if a modeler wanted, they could figure out and assign a scale or size to a particular ship if they so desired. I again go back to the X-Wing only as an example. ILM didn't say lets make the filming miniature 1/24 scale, they simply used a part that people knew how big it would be in real life and it was used to replicate that real life counterpart, the pilot. Modelers then started referring to a SS X-Wing model as 1/24.
Confused yet?:cool
"Studio Scale is largely about replicating the dimensions, construction, and parts (if kit bashed) of a filming miniature."
That would seem to not cover a SS resin kit. All good.
See funboy, this is where articulating the words Studio Scale and scale (1/24, 1/48, etc) can become tricky when trying to answer this broad based question, what is Studio Scale. Others have correctly said that it describes a replica of a filming miniature that is the same in size and detail. That includes a completely scratch built model using original sourced model kit parts, detail parts, or whatever was actually used to build the original filming miniature. Studio Scale also covers some resin model kits, like the Salzo X-Wing, that match the filming miniature as well, but in kit form for a builder to assemble.
When asking what scale a filming miniature is, as in is it 1/24, 1/48, etc, that is open for debate as their usually is no real world, full size counterpart to compare it to.
I do believe that there is enough evidence in a lot of filming miniatures, not all, that if a modeler wanted, they could figure out and assign a scale or size to a particular ship if they so desired. I again go back to the X-Wing only as an example. ILM didn't say lets make the filming miniature 1/24 scale, they simply used a part that people knew how big it would be in real life and it was used to replicate that real life counterpart, the pilot. Modelers then started referring to a SS X-Wing model as 1/24.
Confused yet?:cool
