Leia's ESB wrist communicator.
Another work in progress project, although I may just leave as it is ... it's anyway in a better shape than the real prop at the end of filming.
And of course I'd love to get some feedback as I'm sure I missed some details or maybe got some greeblies totally wrong.
When you whatch the movie and check the promo pictures you can see how the greeblies dissappear one by one until almost nothing is left at the end:
However the strange thing is that some greeblies appear to be added after others fell off. Almost like there were several props and we randomly see Leia wearing one or the other ... although I think it was most likely just one.
Like on the picture above you can see that all the little michell knobs are missing except one that holds the _n_ shaped greeblie on the side.
But on another picture I found in the forum there are 3 of the little knobs on the front side of the prop and the side greeblie is held with a rivet.
I'm not sure if I remember this correctly because I could not find the reference picture, but I think I ve seen a very high resolution of this:
And it appeared that the small knob is sitting on top of the rivet head like it was screwed in inside the rivet. If I find the reference again and it is like I remember it will be an easy change to make though.
Here are the best references I could find where the prop looks most complete with greeblies:
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Here the brass piece is still there on the tape measure part held with one of the small michell knobs. The knob on the side is still there (and is there during the entire movie as far as I can tell), but the 2 small knobs on the switch part are missing. Also the two angled contact pieces are missing in the middle of the switch part, but looks like there are marks where they used to be glued - the 2 red spots.
Here's another from the movie:
As far as I can tell the 2 knobs in the two holes of the switch piece are there and there even seems to be some flat greeblie between them in the spot where on the pictures above looks like there is some glue residue.
When I first started building this I thought here I see some dome shaped greeblies inside the bezel greeblies on the tape measure part. Kind of like the little plastruct domes that cover the screw holes on the Barbican:
Although now I'm convinced on Leia's wrist comm it's just some weird shadows that make it look like that.
Anyway, I had them ordered already and I'm pretty sure I didn't order the transparent ones , but that's what they sent me. I was thinking to paint them black so it didn't matter. But I tried they and they fitted perfectly inside the holes and I think the prop looks really cool like that so I left them.
Now, to the other set of important pictures:
Here the holes on the bezels also look pretty black like there's something inside , but most likely again it is just a harsh shadow.
But the interesting part is that the angled contacts are still there in the center of the switch greeblie.
It was suggested in another thread that these are the contacts from the switch :
and to me it also looks like that , so I used them in the build. Question was - were these glued on the inside or on the outside?
hard to tell - but he tips don't look rounded but sraight. And there are no traces of someting that was glued on the outside, just on top:
I tried both options, and the overall length of the parts and the holes positions aligned better for me on the inside. And could not rue out completely the option that they used some totally different part for this.
The brass part and the knob that was holding it in place are gone from the tape measure part in these pictures. The hole where the knob used to be is clearly visible though, so here it is little confusing to me what was the order these greeblies were added or removed?
Also ther are no small knobs on the front side at all.
As far as I can tell in the scene where Leia kisses Luke is the only place where both the angled contacts are on the switch part and the brass piece and small knob are on the tape measure part:
Althogh still no small knobs on the switch part.
The little knob on the tape measure side seems to hold another greeblie that goes to the side, maybe it is also one of the angled contacts from the switch? Does not seem to be brass though I might be wrong. It can be spotted in several scenes, but the best one I could catch is here:
Finally, there's a mistery greeblie on the upper side. It must have fallen off pretty early as in most references it is missing, but the glue ressidue and the missing paint where it was are clearly visible.
Althoguh I can make out the general shape I thought it is not worth it to try and replicate it. There's no chance to make it exactly what it was only from the references I could find and since I'm so used to see the prop without it it won't' even look "right" to me with something there.
