"Star Wars Model close ups" Topic

Fun to look at these pictures and see tons of parts from many plastic models I have built over the years. Loads of Sherman bits on the Millennium Falcon. =)

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Wow, I just spent a good 15 minutes looking through those and don't regret a one of them. Thanks for posting this!

Ah, to have been a fly on the wall during that time and just watch the creative back-and-forth that must happened in those work shops.

Fantastic models!

Excellent post. It's interesting to see how UNdetailed the paint jobs are when up close. But they work perfectly in the films.

Two things stand out for me. First, the models got better from Star Wars to Jedi. Second, the Return of the Jedi Death Star up close is an amazingly beautiful piece of art. Thanks for the link.

Wow…. every once and a while you can pick out recognizable things…. like the coning tower deck from a Bismarck kit becoming a tiny piece of Vadar's SSD, and the pickup truck leaf springs on the Nebulon.

Very cool.
I never understood the reasoning behind the partially open decks of the star destroyers – basically these smooth exteriors and then what looks like a section that looks like an inner city with a "forget the zoning" build up of stuff.

If one goes to the Smithsonian Flight museum, they have the Close Encounters of the Third Kind spaceship model there. The designers hid all kinds of stuff on it – like a miniature R2D2 – as tribute to movies and things they liked. There is a challenge for the viewer to find all of these on the model.

Here are picks of the original Battlestar Galactica model… lots and lots of tank parts including repetitive tank and APC hulls. Also lots of panther rear deck parts.

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Wow
great pics