Yavin 4 scanner (ANH) - all major parts positively identified

[ecojedi83]

I finally have the Arri motors to build mine. Thanks again Dan for your hard work making this elusive prop a reality.

Kurty are you selling motors by chance?

 

[OdiWan72]

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[AnubisGuard]

Guess what showed up in this week's episode of The Mandalorian.

 

[3DImpact]

Ha - I’ll bet someone from the production got referred to this thread! Love it!

Dan

 

[OdiWan72]

First thing I noticed!

 

[Cameron]

Saw that and screamed...Hey You learned that on the RPF!!!

 

[3DImpact]

So, I actually finally just got to see the episode. It's seems so clear in that scene that they got that detail from this thread. Actually seeing it almost choked me up! To know that it was possible for that detail to be there in that scene fairly likely because of what has been laid out in this thread - I almost feel like I got a kind of cameo in Star Wars, you know?

A huge THANK YOU to whoever it was out there for putting that in there!

Dan

 

[3DImpact]

I see that there is an Arri motor up on eBay for anyone interested:

Arri on eBay

Dan

 

[3DImpact]

And it’s gone! Hope it was someone here who got it.

Dan

 

[teecrooz]

And here I was thinking asavage was going to build the Yavin scanner!

 

[Halliwax]

Aaah so that’s what it originally looks like

 

[division 6]

And here I was thinking asavage was going to build the Yavin scanner!

That's what I though as well.

 

[Vaderman]

Ha! I just caught that episode and thought the same thing. Those casts from Trooper are stunning!
Thanks for the great thread, very inspiring!

edit: say, does anyone know if Trooper is still making the cast motors? I tried to “open a conversation” but I don’t think I did it correctly. I have fond memories of PMs on this board…

 

[dickyb2001]

Fantastic detective work. Absolutely brilliant 3DImpact. And to meet Lorne Peterson to verify the authenticity, magnificent!

After some Ebay purchasing and courtesy of a vintage camera collector I have a couple of Minolta Auto-Spot meters, a collection of faulty Arriflex constant speed motor units (a couple missing switches) and a brass drawer knob to machine into a watchmakers screwdriver for the top part.

Here is mine roughly positioned together. I really need a variable speed version motor for the bottom one so I’ll keep looking.

As a Work In Progress costume (with the Rebel Legion Uk) Rebel Fleet Trooper myself, I'm quite looking forward to a having a screen accurate prop to go with it.

 

[dickyb2001]

I managed to find one of the variable speed Arriflex camera motors for the scanner. It’s lost it’s original leather look plastic outer so I’ve replaced with self adhesive faux leather.

 

[dickyb2001]

And made a greebly for the top to mimic the precision screwdriver. It would be interesting to hear of any further discovery or information coming to light on what vintage screwdriver of the time it might have been.

 

[dickyb2001]

And then put it all together this morning for the first time.

 

[dickyb2001]

And I couldn’t resist popping to a local park for a quick photo in full attire! It was fantastic to get a screen accurate scanner back in the hands of a Rebel Fleet Trooper!

I’ll go back again for more & better photos soon. I was trying to mimic a good screenshot copy but we haven't got the trees right. And I forgot to remove my safety protection wine bottle cork on the helmet antennae (it stops me poking my eye out when not wearing it!), so I cropped my image!

Has anyone else here who has put one together from the original parts ever get one in the hands of someone in full Rebel Fleet Trooper costume? Dan, did you get anyone to pose with yours at Celebration when you met Lorne?

Once again brilliant detective work in discovering this Dan, and thanks for posting in this thread.

 

[3DImpact]

Love it! So happy to see others bring this through to completion.

If you're going for the original Star Wars look then as far as I can tell the rubber glare hood seems to have not been there at Tikal. But The Mandalorian made the hood canon in Season 2.

Nice work!

Dan

 

[3DImpact]

And made a greebly for the top to mimic the precision screwdriver. It would be interesting to hear of any further discovery or information coming to light on what vintage screwdriver of the time it might have been.

So, yeah - the 3D model and print that I ended up with on mine was made from reference to on-site Tikal shoot photos of what I'm 99% sure was the greeblie on the top of the scanner. At the time of the photos, this 'thing' was tucked into a gap on the side of the Arriflex. I can't share the photos (they are pretty soft focus anyway) as they come from a first-hand source from whom I do not have explicit permission to share, but I'm still trying to track it all down. I doubt those on the shoot will remember so small and inconsequential a detail 46.5 years later so it'll be up to us to try to track it once I can get a few more and more crisply-focused images of this thing...

Dan