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stikpusher Looks really good! Those Bandai 1/144 kits are great little fun builds. What color did you use for the blue/gray?
Looks really good! Those Bandai 1/144 kits are great little fun builds. What color did you use for the blue/gray?
On the Bench:
Bandai 1/72 Defender Destroid
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U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
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SplatterMan Very nice! I had my hand on that kit yesterday at the store, humming and hawing whether or not to get it. You couldn't have posted this two days earlier!?
Very nice! I had my hand on that kit yesterday at the store, humming and hawing whether or not to get it. You couldn't have posted this two days earlier!?
Bakster Looks great PhoenixG!
Looks great PhoenixG!
Thanks Gamera!
GameraIt is funny about lighting. I always think about Luke getting the green lightsaber in 'Jedi' partly since if he built a second blue one it would have blended into the sky.
I was not aware of that bit of trivia! Instead it blended in with the green of the forest! ;)
Tanker-Builder Since you have now learned that, what are you gonna build for us now?
Still working on that. My stash has grown large enough that I'm suffering from choice paralysis.
Real GAre you planning on building two of Vader's wingmen?
Absolutely! The kit came with one of his wingmen and I have a second kit to complete a pair. Leaving a spare Tie Adv. to practice realistic battle damage on.
Real GBut if you do that, you'll have to build Red & Gold squadrons. You know, so that you can run down the hallway recreating the final battle - when no one is looking of course. Do you have one of those golf putting things to act as the thermal vent? Stick out tongue
I can neither confirm nor deny those activities take place...
Building these are part of my grand plan to build my very own death star trench run.
Real GSomeone has taken the 1/144 Vader's TIE and built a TIE Bomber from it, which was really amazing. The only thing is that only the window and wing panels are used. Come on Bandai, one more push to give us a TIE Bomber (in 1/72 and 1/44 please).
That sounds intersting. I'll have to dig that up. Visions of the asteroid field...
+1 to Bandai making one!
keavdog Nice job!
Nice job!
Looks great, another winner from you Phoenix!!!
It is funny about lighting. I always think about Luke getting the green lightsaber in 'Jedi' partly since if he built a second blue one it would have blended into the sky.
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
TB,
I had read that the blue screen used in filming, in conjunction with the 1970's era film processing, caused the powder blue TIEs to look like washed out grey. Film processing improved over the original trilogy's run (1977 to 1983), and so if you compare stills from Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, the TIEs from the latter definitely look bluer.
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Now you know why before computers they used Models in Court cases concerning Fatal or near fatal Car crashes that resulted in big Awards from juries. It was known that the average person Cannot tell you, five minutes after the crash, whether the car responsible, Or truck, for that matter was Orange, Wine Red or Just plain Red!
Since you have now learned that, what are you gonna build for us now?
PhoenixG,
Are you planning on building two of Vader's wingmen?
But if you do that, you'll have to build Red & Gold squadrons. You know, so that you can run down the hallway recreating the final battle - when no one is looking of course. Do you have one of those golf putting things to act as the thermal vent?
Someone has taken the 1/144 Vader's TIE and built a TIE Bomber from it, which was really amazing. The only thing is that only the window and wing panels are used. Come on Bandai, one more push to give us a TIE Bomber (in 1/72 and 1/44 please).
Thanks,
John
Quick, clean, easy build. A little too easy.
The Empire isn't going to have grungy machines making the most involving part of this build masking the solar panels. Felt like it would be a pretentious to pull out the white background to photograph it so here it is in the raw.
Interesting note, all tie fighters are blue. It's a trick of the lighting that makes them look grey. I painted Darth Vader's Tie this specific hue, not so I coud say "mine's movie prop accurate!", but to see is I could produce that same trick of lighting.
This is the exact same model in a slightly different temperature light.
Holy cow it worked and it isn't just the camera! The model looks different to my eye.
My understanding is this color shift phenomena is a pretty common thing for movies to contend with.
Now I get to enjoy my very own magic color shifting Tie Fighter.
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