The og looks to be the old rare auroraA decent substitute will do in a pinch...
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Pictured at bottom in green: the original elusive mandible pit greeblie upper hull Tiger II deck.
In tan, above, on left and right, two reasonable substitutes in case you can't find the original.
In tan, on upper left, the Academy 1/48 Hunting Tiger.
In tan, on upper right, the Academy 1/48 King Tiger.
Now notice the teeny-tiny differences, think about the superimposition of additional greeblies, and make your choice accordingly.
Look closer - this isn't a "Where's Waldo?" mystery, this is a two-part game with consequences.
Part 1: Notice what the three hulls have in common, and then notice what the three have in differences -- no two are identical.
Part 2: Choose which differences you can live with, because those will either "show" or "be hidden" more, depending on the choice you make.
- Top line of the Hunting Tiger doesn't give you as much real estate on your horizontal surface thanks to the vertical plane of the upper box.
- Door hinge clasps are different between Hunting Tiger and King Tiger, but one of them is a closer match to Tiger II
- The two round vent centers on Hunting Tiger and King Tiger are very different, and one of them is identical to Tiger II
- The Tiger II has protruding nipples on the two small rounds at bottom, whereas on the Hunting Tiger and King Tiger they are both indented.
Don't know about you, but for my money, I would choose...
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1. You can always add a strip of sprue to the upper horizontal section of the Hunting Tiger for more real estate.
2. You can always "warm up" those cold inverted nipples on the two small rounds by adding two small pieces of round tube stock.
3. You can't possibly "fix" the two large round vent center differences between the Tiger II and the King Tiger, so go with the near-identical pattern on the Hunting Tiger as those "show" the most, and will be the key "tell" that let's people know you're using originals versus faking it.
And then of course, finally, get a life! NOBODY is going to notice this or care one way or another, ONLY YOU are, so really please never forget that you are not pleasing your audience, but only your inner obsession and nothing else... There will be exactly ten other humans on planet earth who would even notice this, and nine of them are never going to see your build anyway.
You already knew this, intuitively, but here's the mathematical proof for why the Millennium Falcon is the most beautiful space ship in Sci-Fi history: she's perfectly proportional, and fits the Fibonacci ratio like a glove.
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Now this is the Bandai hand-sized 1/350 scale Falcon -- which was made from digital scans of the original -- but this is a Fibonacci gauge accurate to 0.25mm, so it's fairly telling. And the golden cut shows up all over her...
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In the center-to-outside ratio of where the center of the radar dish base shows up:
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In the front-tip mandible width to negative-space ratio:
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You even find it in places you wouldn't expect, like in the relationship between the docking arm walkway length....
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...and the jawbox top width (which is to say, the calipers neither expand nor contract between the above picture and the below picture, they only change location)
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Or this relationship, which is the max width of the engine vent rings from far lower port OD to far lower starboard OD...
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... and the height of said engine arrangement, from center top OD to center bottom OD (again, the calipers have not expanded or contracted, only changed location), demonstrating the 1:1.618 ratio between the "length" and "width" of the engine layout.
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And the ratio of the nosecone max OD...
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...to the centerline length of the front nosecone tube section from the top:
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(Which, if correct, means that measure on the 5-footer should be 9.71")
And my personal favorite: the relationship of the rear lower landing gear bay box max width...
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to the max inner length of the lower forward mandible pits:
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(Again: calipers have neither expanded nor contracted between the two above pictures, they have only moved location, revealing that the ratio of the width of the lower landing gear bay to the length of the forward lower mandible pit is 1:1618)
These are stunningly consistent proofs that Joe Johnston had an almost "perfect eye" for proper proportionality when he designed these ships.
I figured all this out on the Y-Wing a few years ago, and made a post about it in 2016 on DaveG's Open Source Y-Wing thread.
Did Joe Johnston know about the Fibonacci ratio when he designed these things? No, he did not. He didn't learn about in industrial design school, and had never heard about it in 1975.
And yes, this also conclusively proves your gut feeling on why the SOLO movie's "original" Millennium Falcon design (with the escape pod stuck between the front mandibles) is so freaking ugly -- it's totally disproportional thanks to the addition of that escape pod, and something Joe Johnston would/could never have tolerated, for the simple reason that it just "looks wrong.
S.K.You already knew this, intuitively, but here's the mathematical proof for why the Millennium Falcon is the most beautiful space ship in Sci-Fi history: she's perfectly proportional, and fits the Fibonacci ratio like a glove.
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Now this is the Bandai hand-sized 1/350 scale Falcon -- which was made from digital scans of the original -- but this is a Fibonacci gauge accurate to 0.25mm, so it's fairly telling. And the golden cut shows up all over her...
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In the center-to-outside ratio of where the center of the radar dish base shows up:
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In the front-tip mandible width to negative-space ratio:
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You even find it in places you wouldn't expect, like in the relationship between the docking arm walkway length....
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...and the jawbox top width (which is to say, the calipers neither expand nor contract between the above picture and the below picture, they only change location)
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Or this relationship, which is the max width of the engine vent rings from far lower port OD to far lower starboard OD...
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... and the height of said engine arrangement, from center top OD to center bottom OD (again, the calipers have not expanded or contracted, only changed location), demonstrating the 1:1.618 ratio between the "length" and "width" of the engine layout.
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And the ratio of the nosecone max OD...
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...to the centerline length of the front nosecone tube section from the top:
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(Which, if correct, means that measure on the 5-footer should be 9.71")
And my personal favorite: the relationship of the rear lower landing gear bay box max width...
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to the max inner length of the lower forward mandible pits:
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(Again: calipers have neither expanded nor contracted between the two above pictures, they have only moved location, revealing that the ratio of the width of the lower landing gear bay to the length of the forward lower mandible pit is 1:1618)
These are stunningly consistent proofs that Joe Johnston had an almost "perfect eye" for proper proportionality when he designed these ships.
I figured all this out on the Y-Wing a few years ago, and made a post about it in 2016 on DaveG's Open Source Y-Wing thread.
Did Joe Johnston know about the Fibonacci ratio when he designed these things? No, he did not. He didn't learn about in industrial design school, and had never heard about it in 1975.
And yes, this also conclusively proves your gut feeling on why the SOLO movie's "original" Millennium Falcon design (with the escape pod stuck between the front mandibles) is so freaking ugly -- it's totally disproportional thanks to the addition of that escape pod, and something Joe Johnston would/could never have tolerated, for the simple reason that it just "looks wrong."
Joberg - IF you can still get Precision Tips at your local store, please go buy ALL of them and send me a bill. I can't find them anywhere in Chicagoland, and it was only the Walgreens franchise that carried them around here.Thank the Maker that I still can get those Q-Tips at my local store Thanks again Studio Kitbash for that great lesson in ratio/proportions and the likes. Some people are simply geniuses and are capable of "seeing" the space and the look of said space ( that is the solid and the invisible around the solid) as a tool they can use for their design. I remember reading that Joe Johnston was going around the model shop with a chisel and would remove some of the greeblies that other model makers had glued on their work. Simplicity is always the challenge and the subconscious is always there to tickle our sense of esthetics into making us love or hate a model/design. The mystery in Art
You forgot " WhoShotfirstitist". But otherwise perfect, ; )The Studio Kitbash FalGal Plate:
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The box under the M60A1E1 part?You guys are too nice and polite. Nobody said, "you're missing two key pieces still" -- which I am. They'll be added this week. Still trying to ID a base piece for one of them.
Yes, that box. Do you know the provenance?The box under the M60A1E1 part?