X-Wing

Some dreams I've had since I was an actual child came true this year, in more ways than one. I've been planning how to write about those experiences, and do justice to the amazing people who brought me there.

But in the meantime, what do I do to celebrate? Start all new projects!

I present to you a photomatched study of the Full-Scale X-Wing. The props in the photos below are from A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, respectively. The geometry matches across all three movies. Either the prop is actually the same or it followed the same blueprints between movies. My gut says that the prop for A New Hope was scrapped and rebuilt with the same blueprints on Empire, which is how the full-scale Falcon was built. Then that full-scale X-wing was reused on Return of the Jedi. In one of the photos an X-wing that is only built from the nose forward is visible, which may have also been a prop in Echo Base on Empire.

B-wing

here's a theoretical full-scale B-Wing based on unproduced blueprints from Return of the Jedi.

It would be about 53' from cockpit to wing-tip, and a little over 8' from deck to the top of the engine block.

Here's the blueprints of the b-wing cockpit. Seems to be labeled Awing for some reason, but that's clearly incorrect. The rest of the body I designed from a photogrametric study of the studio filming model of the B-wing.

Jabba's Palace (part 2)

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