For the swirl effect, are you following screengrabs to any degree or just going for a random approach? I guess it would be mega-tricky to try and replicate every swirl and carbonite contour in there.
Are those details screen accurate?
Scott
Unfortunately nothing I do is really screen accurate.
But is the statue screen accurate?
Scott
Dude. I don't give a runny shiite about Star Wars anymore - and I'm flipping out over this. It may not be accurate enough for the kids who bought side panels that cost more than a BMW - but it's full-on DIY AMAZING.
And I think the LED solution looks better than screen accurate - because when you see these props up close, they almost never hold up - it's all brush strokes and glue blobs. People here who build Fett/Stormtrooper armor have done better sculpts than the old school costumes.
I hope you're pleased and proud of your work, because you should be. Thanks for offering this great tutorial. People who did buy the "expensive" versions of what you've got going here would do well to set up their build as you have done.
Though, with a re-read - it might be that Skaught is asking if the details on that maquette are screen accurate - or something the sculptor but there to make things look "cool"...
Also - you mentioned Rub and Buff. INVEST. That stuff's got a million and one uses, and they're all great!
Figure I would post this idea here as well.
I was looking at this thing and I had a great idea. What if I took out the vents, built a wall behind that opening about 4 inches deep, then added a piece of an old radiator and some copper tubing, then illuminated it with some hidden blue LEDs, put the vents back on, but made them partially open. Then, add a hidden red LED to each port and added a small speaker to the bottom that had some cool exhaust venting noise.
The idea would be that the radiator piece and copper tubing acted as a refrigerant system for the carbonite keeping it frozen, and the exhaust ports pushed out the hot air from the compressors inside.
I would make it so the vents were open allowing you to see the radiator, blue back lit LEDs, and tubing.
Here is a rude interpretation (very rude).
Man, you have no idea how much I want to rip those vents out and try this!
Don't do it..your so close to finishing...Save it for when you build mine/./
I've always thought it would be cool to place one of those ultrasonic water/smoke machines near (hidden) the HiC, but maybe you can figure out a way to hide one inside yours. Something similar to this, but I've seen them much smaller
Ultrasonic Water Fogger
but I guess all that water vapor would eventually wreak havoc on the wooden box