You Get More to Like at Burger Chef

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From the kooky modeler who in 2019 brought you "Spaceship in Burger King Commercial"...

build: model from 1983 Burger King ROTJ glasses ad

While my TIE and X-Wing SS projects remain in their years-long barely-started state, I embark on something fun and off the wall (and I'm sayin' commercials count. ;)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyhDvZMi4VI&frags=pl,wn I am very far along and will document the build in subsequent posts...

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prepare for

Spaceship in Burger Chef Commercial



Coming to Wonderfest 2023, and this thread

 

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The ad:

 

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I started with the educated guess that they used 1/144 Saturn V cones for those exhausts. Everyone else did.



So I scaled the logo to match them the best I could, and printed it out. It required printing out in two sheets.

But then I looked more closely at those cones. The Saturn ones didn't seem to match.


And those pairs of little thrusters next to them looked familiar.

AH! MPC Space: 1999 Eagle!! Perfect.


And with the logo scaled down, it makes for a smaller, more easily built model, and (a biggie), it will print out on a single 8.5 x 11" sheet!
And so it began...

 

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And so the first parts went down, and with such limited reference, it was the last possible moment for any attempt at matching the rest of it part-for-part.

 

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And so I worked my way around, finding parts that came in pairs, from donor kits of appropriate vintage. And a completely invented underside, with the full knowledge that the original probably had absolutely no detail under there.

 

[Millenniumf]

I love esoteric projects like this!!

 

[stevielewis]

Good start. Looking forward to more progress photos!

 

[Treadwell]

I found a vector file of the 70s logo. However, the letters are fat and smooshed together.

So I had to roll up my sleeves in Photoshop to get them to match the model.

 

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First paint layer is a dark gray, which I let serve as a pre-shading by not being too thorough with my top coat of Tamiya Insignia White.
It's darker than the original model, maybe a little more so than I'd like, but I couldn't bring myself to do a stark white. (photos with the flash look more like the ad, which of course would've been shot with bright studio lights...)

The antennas are doll-house scale golf clubs!

I'm usually one for understated display bases, but in the case of this and my BK model, context was important. So printed out a collage of the posters being promoted in the ad. At WF I will have the ad playing in a loop to leave no doubt.

 

[division 6]

Well done.

I had a few of those posters.

 

[stevielewis]

Really cool! I like it.

 

[Apollo]

I remember Burger Chef and Jeff!

Cool stuff!!!

 

[edge10]

Many Eagles died to make this model.

Nice work!

 

[Treadwell]

Just one!

 

[Treadwell]

I'll take it!

 

[JediMichael]

Oh funny. I've missed seeing this thread, but sure do remember the other Burger King Falconship thingy whatever.

 

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ACK! I forgot the registered trademark symbol! Minus 1000 Internet Points.

 

[JediMichael]

ACK! I forgot the registered trademark symbol! Minus 1000 Internet Points.

To be fair, most pics off google do not have one.
I see a few with a tiny TM, and others with the circled R, and most with nothing.

 

[Treadwell]

But the one in the commercial did

 

[JediMichael]

But the one in the commercial did

Its SO low res, its a blurry dot.
Are you able to still add it in now?