Death Star Plans

[genZOD]

Hello All. I've just started a new project: Death Star Plans. I think it's going to be pretty straightforward. I drew up these plans based on photos of the original prop I found online. Most of the replicas that I could find seem to omit a bunch of detail. I think that my drawings are pretty close. Any obvious mistakes? Do any of you know how tall/wide the thing is? Or, does anyone know the size of the slot on R2 that received the card? I've seen the width of the card called out as being 2.75 inches. I was planning to make the card 2 or 3 mm thick. That seemed right when looking at the scene where Princess Leia gave R2 the plans. The data card will be made from pieces of engraved acrylic with faux metal finishes (because that's what I have). The bit at the bottom will be 3D printed with a finish that looks (I hope) like the worn plastic from the prop.

Anyway, I'm making one for myself and one as a present.

 

[division 6]

The disk and an assortment of other designs are seen in the TV shows, especially The Mandalorian.

 

[genZOD]

Cool, thanks! I'm mostly going from this picture of what is supposed to be the Rogue One prop. This prop seems thinner than the one from A New Hope, but I like the details.

 

[FingerPaint]

When you say "Death Star Plans" I hope you don't mean an actual one.

 

[division 6]

Where did you find that pic?

As far as I know no one has ever ID'ed the one from ANH

 

[genZOD]

When you say "Death Star Plans" I hope you don't mean an actual one.

They were not in the main computer…

 

[genZOD]

Where did you find that pic?

As far as I know no one has ever ID'ed the one from ANH

The picture is of the Rogue One prop, not ANH. I like the details, but will make it thicker to look more like (my impression) of the prop when it’s inserted into R2. I’ve never seen a clear still or picture of the ANH version. I don’t think one exists. I’d love to be wrong…

 

[division 6]

Just found this.

 

[Halliwax]

Just found this.
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Very sentimental plaque

 

[genZOD]

Just found this.
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Very cool. The the markings look like they match the image I found, but the finish looks different. The straight on view is super helpful. I had to de-warp the image I used. I’ll check my lines against this new image. Thanks!

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

Just throwing this out for discussion. When the topic was first discussed around here, someone once speculated the original A New Hope prop may have been part of a vintage camera like a dark slide. As in, Come join me on the dark slide.

I thought it made sense with all the other vintage camera parts used in the film.

 

[genZOD]

Thanks for the extra reference material. I updated the lines a bit. I'll do a test run sometime this weekend.

- Tony

 

[3DImpact]

Count me in as interested if you decide to make a run of these beyond the couple you are doing for your own project! I've been wanting to replace my misplaced card for a while now. Back in 2017 there was this run that was very nice (where I got mine then):

Death Star plans card

This was my card from that run:

And here is what the rear of the screen-used prop looked like (which I see from your post above is the same):

Looking forward to a new run of these!

Dan

 

[Halliwax]

Just throwing this out for discussion. When the topic was first discussed around here, someone once speculated the original A New Hope prop may have been part of a vintage camera like a dark slide. As in, Come join me on the dark slide.

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I thought it made sense with all the other vintage camera parts used in the film.

I stand beside you with that

 

[the.rebel.agent]

Don't want to highjack the thread, but I modeled it to a few weeks ago:

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and created a printed protoype:

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Looking for manufacture them in metal and brass. Details of manufacturing were found on a interview with Matthew Savage, original prop designer.

 

[genZOD]

Test #1 ended poorly. About 3/4 of the way through the registration failed. I'll probably use this mess to test a few faux metal finishes. I may also try foil engraving tape.

 

[Halliwax]

Even with it failed, it looks good!

 

[genZOD]

Even with it failed, it looks good!

Thanks. It waited until it was 50 minutes in to fail... so frustrating.

 

[3DImpact]

Yeah, as failures go that's a good one!

Dan

 

[genZOD]

A better failure... sort of. I think that tomorrow is gonna be the day.

Maybe.