The Tantive 4 Set - Help Needed!

[Corellianexports]

The R2Builders are attempting to recreate the set from ANH. Does any one know what the exact dimensions are of the large boxes on the sides of the walls, or better yet the dimension of the door by itself?

Also, we're starting to suspect that those boxes are just "bins" of some sort, with vacuum formed pieces glued on top of them. Does any one have any information on how these may have been built?

I think we've figured every thing else out. Those boxes are the items in question.

Thanks.

 

[Trooper TK409]

A while ago I found a person who owned one of the ROTS boxes and had him take measurements. I thought, "I may need this someday..."

They were indeed vacuformed. It appears the slope on the top side is greater than the slope on the bottom.

 

[moffeaton]

Brandon Alinger has one...

 

[Pwrsrce]

Hi Vince...I've already emailed dims to Mike McMaster...

I've been staring at this thing for a year now, and I think we can reduce the boxes just a tad and be fine...

Using the dims that Bartlett supplied, the boxes come out to about 22.4409" x 33.4646"...Give or take

If we reduce that slightly to the boxes being about 21" x 30" each...We can use a 48" wide piece of material for the center panel and save money...And no one would be able to tell the difference...

I've thought that the originals may have been a found item, but I'm not sure...


Just my 2 cents...

Jason

 

[TK-326]

Guys,

I should be able to pull on a 21" x 30" form on my machine. That's about 5 inches depth, right?

 

[Pwrsrce]

Yeah...Roughly...

Althought in some pics it really looks deeper...

I'll talk with McMaster and Vince over the weekend and try to get some plans for you soon Chris...

I cannot WAIT to see how this thing comes together...

Jason

 

[womo68]

ok...so which one of you is gonna make the plug and send it to Chris


wayne

 

[Pwrsrce]

I figured that you could...

I mean you have so much free time now and all...hehehe

Chris has said that he may be able to make the master if we get him some good info/reference to work from...

Jason

 

[Corellianexports]

The depth looks like it could be 8" to 10".

Could some thing that deep be pulled?

 

[Pwrsrce]

Well...

I know that a friend of mine was able to pull plastic r2 domes on his home made rig, and those are pretty deep...

Jason

 

[Corellianexports]

I can try scaling up the above reference photo.

Any one else have some good reference photos?

 

[Corellianexports]

I'm coming up with 7" for the depth.

If the box is 30" tall, then the outter dimension is 25.5" tall.

 

[micdavis]

Who is gonna rig the door to explode so Vader can walk through?

 

[Pwrsrce]

Hey Vince,

I've got several good reference shots at home...I'll try to post them tonight...

Jason

 

[Trooper TK409]

door actually looks like this:

 

[darth buffalo]

I hope i can help

This is the same pic from the first post, but larger and the doors are correct

I found it on my HD, I got an even larger format, if you want it, PM me

 

[Corellianexports]

Thanks. I just got a bunch of reference photos from McMaster.

I'll try drawing up a blueprint for the box next week.

 

[womo68]

this is gonna be good.


wayne

 

[robstyle]

if you want to do it the easy way, use either sheet abs or styrene for the entire areas that are flat. You figure once you build frames, bondo, paint... the cost would be about the same but would take less time with sheets of abs/styrene. You could even do that door design out of two sheets of it. Just use some black or grey acrylic paint on the side areas that are cut out to give it depth.
It looks like a very, very easy set to build.
You could even light those buttons with modified .99 cent store safety flashers or a ten led blinker board.

 

[Vaderman]

So is that set going to be where people go stand to take pictures with R2 and threepio or something?