gonk27
Sr Member
Hi all
There's a model making project I've had bubbling away at the back of mind for some time and I wondered if anyone's done anything similar before? if so please PM me!!
When I get time I'm going to make a Star Wars diorama, probably to 4" action figure scale, most likely a Tatooine street or Lars Homestead scene. BUT here's the twist, I want to make a model of an actual FILMING SET (or at least my interpretation of a Star Wars set, maybe for a "scene cut from the OT", or a prequel set with lots of easy-to-make Blue Screen).
So although I want the texture and detail of the model to be as realistic as I can get it I also want to be able to look at the reverse side and see all the miniature wooden joists, scaffolding, lighting cables, equipment trunks, blue and green screens even model film cameras on tripods, crew & actors, monitors, folding 'director chairs' and lights!!!! Quite an undertaking and I'm not sure what degree of detail I'll want to go to
A sort of cross between a real filming miniature, and a set maquette that an art department might show a director.. make sense?
I could use blue silk or some other thin fabric to represent blue screens glued onto balsa frames; disguise halogen bulbs to make sound stage lights (which would actually illuminate the model); use kit parts to make the Tunisian location junk piles; balsa sheet for the plywood flats making the set (textured with plaster); balsa rod and strip for timber 2x4's and 'something' for steel scaffolding?? All contained in a three walled MDF box suggesting the sound stage itself!
I suppose the beauty is that you needn't get bogged down with building too much - I could even make a very small section of a set to start with, reasoning that it's a model of a Partial Star Wars set, and have the rest as Blue or Green Screen, therefore you have less area to make and detail
I'll probably cannibalize generic action figures of the right scale for cast and crew, and design my own speeders and droid props! Something like this was done at C2 wasn't it??
I was inspired by a beautiful minature I saw in a museum once that portrayed the making of an early silent Hollywood film, it wasn't all that big but it was exquisitely made, and all painted black and white too which was a nice touch given the subject matter!
Might be a pipe dream until I find the time though
Jeremy
There's a model making project I've had bubbling away at the back of mind for some time and I wondered if anyone's done anything similar before? if so please PM me!!
When I get time I'm going to make a Star Wars diorama, probably to 4" action figure scale, most likely a Tatooine street or Lars Homestead scene. BUT here's the twist, I want to make a model of an actual FILMING SET (or at least my interpretation of a Star Wars set, maybe for a "scene cut from the OT", or a prequel set with lots of easy-to-make Blue Screen).
So although I want the texture and detail of the model to be as realistic as I can get it I also want to be able to look at the reverse side and see all the miniature wooden joists, scaffolding, lighting cables, equipment trunks, blue and green screens even model film cameras on tripods, crew & actors, monitors, folding 'director chairs' and lights!!!! Quite an undertaking and I'm not sure what degree of detail I'll want to go to
I could use blue silk or some other thin fabric to represent blue screens glued onto balsa frames; disguise halogen bulbs to make sound stage lights (which would actually illuminate the model); use kit parts to make the Tunisian location junk piles; balsa sheet for the plywood flats making the set (textured with plaster); balsa rod and strip for timber 2x4's and 'something' for steel scaffolding?? All contained in a three walled MDF box suggesting the sound stage itself!
I suppose the beauty is that you needn't get bogged down with building too much - I could even make a very small section of a set to start with, reasoning that it's a model of a Partial Star Wars set, and have the rest as Blue or Green Screen, therefore you have less area to make and detail
I'll probably cannibalize generic action figures of the right scale for cast and crew, and design my own speeders and droid props! Something like this was done at C2 wasn't it??
I was inspired by a beautiful minature I saw in a museum once that portrayed the making of an early silent Hollywood film, it wasn't all that big but it was exquisitely made, and all painted black and white too which was a nice touch given the subject matter!
Might be a pipe dream until I find the time though
Jeremy
