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| TANGO'D FETT | Mar 28 2011, 07:43 PM Post #1 |
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Originally posted by John Danter tk8456 migrated from old forum Hello This little baby is something that means quite a lot to me Many hours of research, many emails back and forth to folks involved, many pigeon english emails with a Japanese toy sculptor, many incorrect purchases of what I believed the bottles to be and many cut fingers and splitners to make my prototype version, made just before CE, shown here: ![]() I knew this was inaccurate and have always meant to upgrade the bottles etc. With help from a Japanese toy sculptor and a lovely Japanese lady named Akiko who I used to work with I've managed to track down the exact thing used way back in 76 to recreate the bottles used on the Death Star surface and what a lot have believed for a long time were also then used on the back of the 2 TKs outside the Death Star as the Falcon gets sucked inHere the guys are ![]() Cleaned up in photoshop ![]() This image shows the bottle tops are flat with some nipple on top ![]() ![]() This toy made many moons ago shows what the maker thought the bottles should look like (this was based on what he was told BTW :)) ![]() When most saw those bottles, it was dismissed as being inaccurate due to the hose and fastening to the chest....... However a few years ago a chap on the RPF thought they might be bottles used on the Death Star surface. Then there was a SW exhibition in London. In there they had a few meters of the Death Star surface and these turret guns. I saw these bottles (before the link was made) and yes, they're about the correct size ![]() Shown in the corner here ![]() Close up, here ![]() ![]() |
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| TANGO'D FETT | Mar 28 2011, 07:44 PM Post #2 |
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Now then.... Does this look familiar to you ![]() ![]() I then went through everything to try and recreate the shapes seen. this is what I've come up with so far ![]() With a clue from the scupltor I then managed to nail it down further with the help of this pattern here (thanks to Alex Howard for the reminder on this pattern) ![]() ![]() I'm pretty happy with myself after some 5+ years of fiddling with this. All I need to do now, is take my time, create the rest of the detail and vac form a new bottom This is all I have on that so far. The sculptor was told those lower parts were just made up ![]() However, I doubt that and they MUST have been used elsewhere in the film. Based on my screen grabs (role on BluRay) I think the toy above IS the same shape as the lower section. Note the pipe that rolls around the back,emitting the pipe. It looks right So can I ask if anyone wants to kindly sit down and watch ANH 100 times in slow mo to find the lower bit, feel free. John ![]() |
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| jaffa007 | Apr 8 2011, 11:10 AM Post #3 |
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Interesting read! Remember this subject from ages ago. Nice to see you've not given up. Look forward to seeing more :-) |
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