Back in 2019 I posted about my reconstruction of the wrecked ship that sits outside of the cantina in Mos Eisley. Here's an update on that.

I created the model from a perspective match of the film set to get the proportions and scale. Later I came across a sketch that was drawn by Star Wars production designer John Barry, which showed what the full ship might be shaped like. I detailed the rest with my library of greebles built up over the years creating other Star Wars ships, and painted it up a bit like the Falcon filming model. 

Sharp eyed observers might spot big Q-shaped logo on the side, this is my homage to the Pirate Ship concept model by Colin Cantwell

Fun tidbit, my version is technically canonical. Model maker Jason Eaton snuck a print of a file I sent him into a High Republic filming miniature. https://www.starwars.com/news/jason-eaton-starlight-beacon

Mandalorian

The Mandalorian is great, if you follow this blog at all and haven't seen it, get to it. This is basically everything I loved about playing with action figures right up there on the screen and then some. It's both fun and satisfying, the world REALLY feels like Star Wars and I can't wait to see more. I haven't built anything from it yet, but you can bet I will be soon... too many people have been pumping out great Razorcrest models, so I probably won't be tackling that directly...  though for some reason I keep having this image of what a Colin Cantwell prototype version might look like.

in the meantime here's an unrelated update on the Mos Eisely Wreck model I've been poking at here and there. I've begun to think about it as essentially the ship that Luke is talking about when he says to Han "We could almost buy our own ship for that!"

Mos Eisley Wreck

One last hidden ship in A New Hope...

I received a message from a fan who had a sketch by John Barry from '75 that showed the intended shape of the wreckage

Here is my reconstruction

Speeders of Mos Eisley

All four speeders that appear in Mos Eisley are pictured here.

technically you could say that the speeder on the far right is the Lars Family Speeder seen in Luke's garage, and that it needs a different paint job to be its Mos Eisley cousin, but that's splitting hairs. You could also say that Luke's own speeder is missing, but I haven't modeled it yet. Either way, I'm pretty happy with this little spread of obscure vehicles!

note: the Void-Spider and Mobquet speeders on the left both need complete paintjobs (which is a windmill for another day, so to speak) The other two are also in need of some dirtying up. 

a million points to them as can point out the one other place in A New Hope where the Ubrikkian Speeder appears, other than outside the cantina (a hint, it appears upside down)

Two for One Deal

On a roll here. Another speeder knocked off my list; the "Mobquet" Speeder. The guy on the right is only partially visible in two scenes at Mos Eisley. One is parked outside the cantina, and another is seen as Luke is selling his speeder. The ship on the left is the "Ubrickkian" Speeder, which supposedly gets its name as a tribute to Stanley Kubrick. This one I've had a model of for a while, but I cemented some parts on it.

(look to the far left for the "Mobquet Speeder")



Both of these appeared in the same Balantine Books publication with the Void-Spider in the previous post.

Nighthawks

Mos Eisley Cantina