Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection

[Mr_Sparkle]

Thought I would throw a heads-up out to everyone... As some of you may be aware, Chris Trevas (lonepigeon) and myself were busy earlier this year illustrating a series of posters for DK. Until now there has been nothing that we could show or talk about in regard to the posters but in looking around online today I came across this on Amazon: Star Wars Blueprints

In that listing there are low res versions of a few of the posters including the Weapons poster showing everything that we were able to cover. Lots of new information including designs for internals (anyone want to do kits?) for the E-11, Han ANH Blaster, Anakin/Luke Saber, Thermal Detonator, and the MG-15 based Sandtrooper Blaster (Now officially known as the BlasTech RT-97C. We got to name it. )

All the weapons are at full size on the poster with the exception of the RT-97C which is at 75% I believe.

There is a lot of new information in regard specifically to the internals but all the externals are dead on including some specifics that haven't been addressed before. We had a ton of great reference available to us and in combination to the real parts we have in our own collections were able to make the drawings hyper-accurate.

Hopefully you all enjoy not only the weapons poster but the other four as well. They are all equally as detailed.

If anyone is going to San Diego we'll be at the DK book for part of the con promoting the posters. Stop on by and say hi.

Edited to add the images from the Amazon Listing:

Thanks,

 

[franz bolo]

Congrats 2 Chris and Chris!!

FB

 

[micdavis]

Cool. Looks like there even dimensions on some of them. True?

 

[EyeintheSky]

Tnx for the info, seems cool indeed!

 

[Mr_Sparkle]

Cool. Looks like there even dimensions on some of them. True?

There are overall dimensions for each thing on each poster. No dimensions on the individual elements themselves just in the data boxes in the lower right of each poster. For the weapons though since they are all at actual size you don't really need called out dimensions.

Some of the pieces I actually built as 3D files. The DL-44 for instance. I built good 3D files of it and all the pieces uning a combination of real parts that I have as reference (except the internals) then was able to use those as spot-on reference when doing the drawings. Other pieces such as the E-11, RT-97C, misc scopes, etc we were able to pull dimensions off of actual real pieces from our collections with micrometers and draw them directly without the 3D modeling step.

I think everyone will be blow away by these things when you see them in person. We spent a lot of time working through pretty much everything including the possible real functionality of the internals of the blasters. (assuming the basic theory of blaster functionality was real you could make these things work as shown.)

For other posters we used a combination of reference and similar processes to assure very accurate representations. That required a lot of fixing of previous interpretations of things.

One particularly fun example is that we were able to work with Lucasfilm to finally define a more realistic and believable NEW official length to the Falcon. The ship is still cheated a bit in the film but our iteration of it incorporates and makes possible 99 percent of what we see on screen.

A fun project it was for sure.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I was already sold when I read you guys were doing it! I can't wait to get it.

 

[superjedi]

Cool! I remember Lonepigeon talking about this a while back.
I'll be picking up a copy when it comes out.

 

[Mr_Sparkle]

Just updated the first post with the images from Amazon... Figured I would save everyone the hassle of hoping over there to check them out.

 

[lonepigeon]

The blueprints were a lot of work, but it's rewarding now to see the final product. Chris and I just received our first copies a couple days ago. The prints are nice high quality pieces.

 

[MikeyX]

Those look awesome - I'm definitely in

 

[GATORBAIT9696]

yep me too looks real nice