Colin Droidmilk
Sr Member
Sorry to hear about the problems... hope they sort out...
Here's a pic that illustrates this better.
Conventional explanation is that when pyro work was tried with a model or models built using hero construction, it/they blew apart unconvincingly into top and bottom halves, wherease pyro-construction types blow apart sideways, i.e. towards the camera, looking less phony.
Rodmart, thanks for the great droidstrip chart. Nice illustrations.
JMC, can't you just get that info from reference photos - or do you mean a chart including areas not in the public arena, like the underside of Red 2 etc.? If you need help with ref photos there was a huge thread here a while back which pooled almost all of what's publically available.
Thanks a lot guys!
I would love to know if OylPslyk finished those wonderful 2D views of the 3D mesh he was creating, they looked wonderful. I would love to make an X-Wing profiles illustrations of every Red, ofcours, with your help and guidance and I woul give full resolution illustrations for anyone hwo would be interested in printing them.
P.S:
What do you think is the nose to butt lenght of the Red 5 X wing?
Any one has a clue?
at the risk of asking another long answered question, was the pyro longer than than the heroes?
Do you suppose they made one pattern out of a hero and simply cut it in half? Or two? The reason I ask is that you would lose some width dimension due to the kerf of the blade used to cut it in half. It may be a small amount, but it would cause the pyros to be slightly narrower as well, by about 1/32" or more maybe. For accuracy, I would cut two seperate patterns in half, but given ILM's time constraints during production, they probably just cut one in half like you said. Another alternative would be to pour the molding material around the pattern at exactly the halfway point, but I don't know if that would have been feasible. Any thoughts?That pattern was built from a resin hero fuselage upper body casting mated with a vacformed styrene hero lower fuselage, in the manner of the original hero miniatures, and then cut in half on the vertical axis to create those bucks.
Do you suppose they made one pattern out of a hero and simply cut it in half? Or two? The reason I ask is that you would lose some width dimension due to the kerf of the blade used to cut it in half. It may be a small amount, but it would cause the pyros to be slightly narrower as well, by about 1/32" or more maybe. For accuracy, I would cut two seperate patterns in half, but given ILM's time constraints during production, they probably just cut one in half like you said. Another alternative would be to pour the molding material around the pattern at exactly the halfway point, but I don't know if that would have been feasible. Any thoughts?