Star Wars Cantina Still

Valor

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My company is going to have a May the Fourth happy hour. I volunteered to help turn our company bar into a more appropriate Star Wars Cantina. So, on a budget, I'm going to build the crazy canister and tubing structure you see behind the bartended in A New Hope.

I know all about those canisters being the Rolls Royce aircraft engine part, AND that they were also used for IG88's head. Sadly, thats not in my budget.

What is ... a trip the the Dollar Store. Each finished canister is build from a beach pail, a giant cheese ball container, and the metal shade from a small clamp on light. After lots of drilling. ... So. Much. Drilling. I glued and screwed everything together. I also added some additional greeblies on the surface I'm trying my best to honor the look of the original design seen in the film.

After a coat of primer, they are starting to look like something.

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You just fried my brain with this. Those look amazing! Please follow up on this, I HAVE to see how it all turns out!
 
Spent the day getting pipe together for the frame. It's white PVC that's to look copper. I tried for days to sketch out a layout for the pipe system and finally gave up and just started cutting and fitting pipe into an arrangement. I wanted to evoke the maze of copper pipe used in the Cantina, but I also needed mine to support the entire drink system.

After a lot of trial and error, the entire pipe system was glued together and painted to look like copper pipe. Then everything was given some final weathering.

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Done!
 
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