Monday, November 13, 2023
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
'77 Elstree Falcon Underside Details
a few pieces of damage away from completing the modeling. Let's see if this most recent burst of energy will carry me through a materials phase.
Students of the 5-Foot filming model will no doubt recognize a lot of things, and also be puzzled by a lot of things. This full-scale prop is a rats nest of perfectly observed details and then wild deviations. Guess that's true really of all the Falcons. If you get a saucer, two forks, a nose, and a cockpit in roughly the right shape and then cover it with enough kitbash stuff it'll pretty much look like the Falcon.
What a pieces of junk.
'77 Elstree Falcon Superstructure
Just for fun, I wanted to show the superstructure based on images of the construction of the Falcon prop, so I imagined what it might look like if they had continued the construction all the way around the way they did on Empire.
Monday, October 30, 2023
'77 Elstree Falcon
been working on this version for a long time, I think I'm finally getting close to done...
and got to create some rigging in blender
Friday, March 26, 2021
The Foss Brothers
The R1 on the left is fairly well known from the ANH scene where R2 and 3PO are sold by the Jawas, and it's also pretty established that the design was based on a book cover painted by Chris Foss. Much less well knows is that R1's brother on the right, who resides at Mos Eisley and is seen for all of a handful of frames in the background as our heroes arrive at that well known hive of scum and villainy.
These models are from all new photomatches of behind the scenes materials. I'm setting these up for a collaboration with the incomparable Jason Eaton.
Thursday, March 18, 2021
ANH Falcon Back Wall Misalignment
So it's fairly well known that the back wall of the Falcon's cockpit is a little wonky in the first movie
Saturday, July 25, 2020
random holochess discovery
when I put the rockers I'd already built into place they fit perfectly.