THE DEATH STAR - ARMED AND FULLY OPERATIONAL ++FINAL IMAGES+++

Yes almost all are card apart from the blast doors and some areas arount it.

Tanks for pointing out the film timeline! I'll be more careful next time.

Kinda OFF TOPIC, but seein' as there's some Star Wars interest and artisic license at work, I'll throw in these clips I found on Youtube.. Thought they were pretty clever and proves that George Lucas was a fan of the RAF, The Dam Busters, and 633 Squadron...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMfBKrdErY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OZq-tlJTrU&feature=related

Interesting that you should direct me to those vids.

After live filming was complete, Lucas was presented with a few useless shots of from his SF team and with over half the special effect budget spent on simply setting up and designing cameras and effects equipment Lucas was desperate to get the effects team motivated.

In order to give his SF team a feel for what he was trying to achieve, he showed them loads of WW2 footage of dogfights and gunners from bombers in action. On completion most of the effects shots for the Tie attack on the Falcon (my favourite SW scene) and the Death Star attack could literally be overlaid over the WW2 film frame for frame.

If you haven't yet got the Bonus material DVD that came with the last trilogy, do so, it's very interesting, and gives an insight into how Star Wars came so close to not being completed.

An awesome dio, Skonch!

Could you clarify though--what are the figures and Millenium Falco models--are they real toy figures and a toy ship painted in more realistic shades, or are they actual models that you built yourself?

Skonch wrote:

Interesting that you should direct me to those vids. After live filming was complete, Lucas was presented with a few useless shots of from his SF team and with over half the special effect budget spent on simply setting up and designing cameras and effects equipment Lucas was desperate to get the effects team motivated. In order to give his SF team a feel for what he was trying to achieve, he showed them loads of WW2 footage of dogfights and gunners from bombers in action. On completion most of the effects shots for the Tie attack on the Falcon (my favourite SW scene) and the Death Star attack could literally be overlaid over the WW2 film frame for frame.   If you haven't yet got the Bonus material DVD that came with the last trilogy, do so, it's very interesting, and gives an insight into how Star Wars came so close to not being completed.

I recall reading Lucas's bio Skywalking and the battle sequence was pretty much an afterthought during production. But the bit I liked was when they had the first crew preview with sound and music added. In that room it was  like electric, apparently pretty stunned. to be a fly on the wall that day.

Well, what is the attack on Yavin by the Death Star but a retelling of the Battle of Midway?  With Gold Squadron standing in for Torpedo 8.  Just like "Battlestar Galactica" replayed Pearl Harbor, in the original series, that is.

Some of the storyboards and other illustrations were based on real combat photos, too, weren't they?  There was a color illustration of a Rebel pilot running across the deck to his fighter, carrying a plotting board, which was inspired and almost copied directly from a picture of a US Navy airman in the same pose, running across the flight deck of his carrier.  I think it's in Squadron's TBF "In Action" book, if I'm not mistaken.

Great dio, too!  I don't think it suffers from adjusting the sequence a little, you wanted to show all of the action in a single picture.  Great use of the figures!

Regards,

Brad

The Falcon is the latet Hasbro Legacy version that I custom painted, the rest are my kids Star Wars figures.

Boba Fett wrote:

Skonch! That is awesome! Yeah, the blasters shouldn't be going off yet, but it adds a little drama. How did you do the blaster bolts? Did you photoshop them in?

Boba,

Yep, you guessed it, Photoshop Elements. Lasers were a yellowy white line approx 5 pixels wide, I then airbushed along the lines at approx 40 pixels width at 30% pressure.

Now I think about it, your dio concepts might set this off nicely...

My word! that brings back some memories.

 Star Wars toys have come a long way since then.

Lloyd wrote:

Now I think about it, your dio concepts might set this off nicely...

God man I had the X-wing TIE fighter and Millenium Falcon when I was a kid back in the 80's on top of all the GI Joe figures and vehicles I had.

Wow in the box I imagine that X-wing should be worth alot I have a falcon from the original star wars in box but no inside packaging. Thats one of my prize possesions had it since I was like 7 when new. I always took good care of my toys. Wish I still had most of them( had a house fire in 89' lost most of my stuff). take care great looking dio too.

John