Jaitea
Master Member
The pilot looks tiny in the photo above... they must have changed it before filming.
But you can't see what size the pilot was in the film,....only in the promo pics & AMT model box art
J
The pilot looks tiny in the photo above... they must have changed it before filming.
It's also interesting that the model that Wesley Seeds was working on above doesn't have that red panel that the promo images & that still above has....the one with the red panel has different weathering & big pilot
How many studio models were made for the film?
J
Supposedly there were two of them
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=74549&page=4
Did they just add the big pilot (puppet?) to one of the models for the close-up crash shot?
If I had to guess, they created the bigger pilot for close up shots in one of the hero models because it had mechanical head-turn capabilities like the Twin Pod Cloud Car from Empire. They may have never filmed some of the storyboarded battle shots that may have originally depicted the need for that, or they may have simply built one to have on-hand.
The scale however does not match up when A-wings are next to B-wings in Jedi. Given the B-wing pilot scale and canopy - the A-wing is much larger in scale with that than the 1/48 pilot would indicate. I think Bandai got the scale correct - but that is not to say the the ILM hero model does not look okay with the larger pilot either. I guess it would have to be preference of the builder at this point - whether or not to match the ILM hero model or be true to scale with the other 1/72 Rebel ships.
How about some news:
Snowspeeder 1/48 and 1/144 combo kit in May:
http://www.1999.co.jp/10456971
Mini Jedi Starfighter with removable Hyperdrive Docking ring in June:
http://www.1999.co.jp/10456976
Jango Slave 1 in 1/144 in June:
http://www.1999.co.jp/10456973
Hat tip to Chiangkaishecky
That's pretty much what it comes down to.
Bandai's scale is accurate to 1/72 for the measurement they are using. It's just a matter of what side of the coin you fall on as to whether those numbers are accurate.
In the end it's the choice of whether you want the A-wing to look like a replica of the studio model or do you want an A-wing that is sized according to the "official" real world size.
Your preference determines whether it is closer to a 1/72 scale model or closer to 1/48 scale model
Hm. Usually I'm pretty excited by news of new kits, but this latest leaves me feeling pretty "meh".
* Jedi Starfighter - not generally interested in PT vehicles (unless it's the Radiant VII. A 1:144th Radiant VII would be amazeballs. And enormous. They'd be more likely to do 1:350th, but I can dream)
* Snowspeeder 2-pack. I'd guess they've seen a very positive response to the X-Wing 2-pack, so this makes sense, but it's basically a re-pack of 2 existing models.
* Jango Slave-1. Really? It's the same as the existing Slave 1 with tiny differences. I guess they need it to go alongside the Jedi starfighter, but....
I was hoping for a Vehicle Model A-Wing 2-pack
I couldn't find definitive proof either way.If there were two studio models as demonstrated a few posts back, did only one get the big pilot, leaving the other with a smaller pilot as on the Bandai? Or were both fitted with puppet pilots?
I have mixed feeling. It's cool to see some prequel stuff, but they seem to be trending more and more to the 1/144 stuff
I'd love to see any of those on 1/72
So was the "big"announcement that was alluded to just the 1/2 scale BB-8. If so that's kind of disappointing