Not sure if this warrants its own thread, really, but I can't find an obvious place to put it.
Anyway. Docking Bay 94 in the original Star Wars movie features a couple of odd yellow fibreglass tank-like structures off to the side of the Millennium Falcon. They're barely visible on screen for a couple seconds. Technically there's a third object of the same type behind the ship, but you really have to study screenshots to see it.
Over the years different people, including myself and including ILM, have modelled these things as front-back symmetrical, simply because that's the only view of the objects that were available. Renditions of these tank objects appear in the docking bay in Attack of the Clones, for example. But it turns out that's completely wrong!
Thanks to correspondent Gray Sharpling, it appears that these "tanks" weren't tanks after all, but instead were wheeled diesel compressors used for powering pneumatic tools at British work sites. Hydrovane 180DS and related products. Who woulda thought?
I've written up a new page on the docking bays which has some additional information on them that I've been able to find.
https://sites.google.com/site/millenniumfalconnotes/part-iic-the-docking-bays
And now I'm working on rebuilding my 3D models. And they're way more complicated objects to model now! Crap.
- nkg
Anyway. Docking Bay 94 in the original Star Wars movie features a couple of odd yellow fibreglass tank-like structures off to the side of the Millennium Falcon. They're barely visible on screen for a couple seconds. Technically there's a third object of the same type behind the ship, but you really have to study screenshots to see it.
Over the years different people, including myself and including ILM, have modelled these things as front-back symmetrical, simply because that's the only view of the objects that were available. Renditions of these tank objects appear in the docking bay in Attack of the Clones, for example. But it turns out that's completely wrong!
Thanks to correspondent Gray Sharpling, it appears that these "tanks" weren't tanks after all, but instead were wheeled diesel compressors used for powering pneumatic tools at British work sites. Hydrovane 180DS and related products. Who woulda thought?
I've written up a new page on the docking bays which has some additional information on them that I've been able to find.
https://sites.google.com/site/millenniumfalconnotes/part-iic-the-docking-bays
And now I'm working on rebuilding my 3D models. And they're way more complicated objects to model now! Crap.
- nkg