New Elstree Studio documentary with discarded Graflex.

3D modeling is great and all, but someone should actually mock up the different possibilities with real parts and photograph them to try and match the focal lengths, etc.
 
Hopefully this may be of some help to Roy in his planned re-examination of his 3D renders and anyone else who may be interested:

Here is the hero bottom tube and upper grip scaled to exactly 93.80mm (the in-general, full-length of a tube extended from the bottom end to the edge of the clamp). In this photo you can just barely identify the "smaller" set of rivets originally found in the studio photo shoot of Mark. As you can see here, I have marked what seems to be the edges of the rivet head diameters. The red lines seem to indicate an approximate 4mm rivet head diameter while the green lines seem to suggest a 4.5-5mm diameter. If this hypothesis is true, that may account for the slight upward bend in the end of the grip foot as it rises slightly over top the larger 4.5-5mm rivet at the very end.

EDIT: I might add that the green lines may be off due to the blurriness of the photo in that spot, so both rivets might indeed be 4mm or they might vary in size. This is by no means a set-in-stone observation, just a suggestion of what might be present on the actual prop.

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As much as it is to pick on Roger Christian, I can't imagine him added the for grip rivets from a design perspective... which makes me wonder if these weren't added by the people who were working on the Elstree saber.

Was the lower half of the hero intended for stunt work?

Good point. He was after all just the set decorator. Those rivets, if they were to hold the internal motor assembly for the blade, were probably added by the FX crew later during production.
 
IronDestinyProps, I’ve been doing the same scaling on all the photos and have also been getting 4.5-5mm for that pair of rivet heads. In your picture, those rivet heads are touching (shadow makes it look like a gap), so that makes your measurements the same.

I keep getting 5mm diameter on the newer pair of rivet heads.

It’s a freaking half a millimeter potential difference, so I’m back on board with Roy’s rivets, lol.

Also, when looking at the picture below, you need to follow the grip edge across so as to not confuse any shadows.

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The grips were put on after the rivets were installed. That can lead to some confusion on the actual rivet size.

Me personally, I'm not adding rivets in those places. It took this long to notice them..... insignificant!

- Jim
 
I was going to ask, how tall are 3mm rivet heads? Can they fit underneath T track without an obvious incline in the track?
 
Have you considered producing a grip spacing guide based on the perspective-matched model? I'd buy one.

Maybe I can make a new blueprint based on the screen matched grip positioning later. I don't need money for that. I can design and offer a grip guide to download for 3D printing. It'll take some time, to match them with a whole bunch of pictures. I'm not sure if we can account for all the grip positions properly.
 
Maybe I can make a new blueprint based on the screen matched grip positioning later. I don't need money for that. I can design and offer a grip guide to download for 3D printing. It'll take some time, to match them with a whole bunch of pictures. I'm not sure if we can account for all the grip positions properly.

Love for a wannawanga grip guide!
 
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