It looks to me like it's in a glass display case. It could be a 3d print and they don't want anybody to put their mitts on it.
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It looks to me like it's in a glass display case. It could be a 3d print and they don't want anybody to put their mitts on it.
TazMan2000
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Is that a gap between the conning tower base and the main hull?
TazMan2000
TazMan2000
Might be- it is most likely a 3D Printed display for the show
Repulsorlift. Small craft like Luke's landspeeder, the N-1 fighter, and the B-wing fighter have no landing gear at all. Even the repulsorlift on Luke's junker on a backwater planet is tacitly considered so reliable that he doesn't even have an emergency skid for it to rest on at home. And the implication is it's running even with the power off.
Queen Amidala's ship had those teeny little pointy tricycle landing legs, the Millennium Falcon has more substantial landing legs, but three isn't stable enough, and people who have built largely hollow (definitely no engines or metal hull) full-scale replicas have had to reinforce the heck out of both the build surface and all five (or seven, depending on how you count the doubled rear ones) landing legs just to hold the darn thing up. So I presume freighters also rely largely on repulsorlift, with landing legs mostly for stability and backup.
I can't remember -- does the Ghost even have landing gear?
Analyzer
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It would make sense if the landing gear are there mainly for anchoring to keep it from moving more than lifting
I know.
Several have built theirs with landing gear. I opt not to because the original miniature was designed and built without provision for such, and the matte painting for ROTJ cuts off before we can see far enough. Given the optionality of which way to have the main hull when horizontal, I just figure it hovers a la so many other craft we've seen through the films.
Galactican
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Isn't that Star Destroyer a tad too big???
INVAR
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The 'Vehicle Model kits' do not conform to any scale outside of being able to fit nicely atop your desktop computer. Pretty sure that is the only guiding similarity outside of ridiculous levels of accurate detail in kits that small. They do sit nicely together - even when the Death Star II is the same diameter as the length of the Rebel Blockade Runner and Millennium Falcon.
Fett_Ish
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SD looks beautiful, but now that I see it sized up next to other kits, I'll stick with my Zvezda and a bunch of 3D printing. The detail and accuracy of the Bandai is far and away better,but I want the model to have more presence in my collection. Did I mention it looks beautiful?
Great find tengel!
Good to see they apparently are doing test shots of the Star Destroyer already.
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Isn't that Star Destroyer a tad too big???
Nah, it's just a lot closer to the camera.
SawbonesAdmiral
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The 1/5000 SD is huge; from what everyone else is saying I was led to believe that it waaay smaller than that.
I guess people were overexaggerating.
I guess people were overexaggerating.
The clear pieces are what really interest me.
One piece makes me wonder- why is the top of the bridge clear but not the front?
I don't recall much lighting at all for the very top bridge panels, while the front of the bridge is a must for lighting. Perhaps there is a second set of clear not photographed yet
I couldn't get my hand in there for scale next it it because it was behind glass, but it's about a foot long.
Dan
Fett_Ish
Sr Member
I was looking at the clear pieces closely and it appears that the windows are molded in as well. At first I thought it was something from the injection molding but they line up with the lighted version. It could be that only the 3D Printed parts (which is what we are shown in the picture) have this as a way to make the masking for lighting easier for the display. If it is also on the molded parts drilling and lighting the non clear kit will be a relative breeze. This may be why, in my opinion, the windows are too big.
robn1
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There's no bridge front shown in the pics, so no reason to assume it isn't also clear.
Fett_Ish
Sr Member
Boy I need to find my glasses! Now I looked closer at the opaque parts and they also have holes in them. Guess I'm gonna pick up one of the standard kits for my desk at work so I can use it to make more accurate parts for my Zvezda. I don't understand the clear parts AND holes. Someone help me out here...
