Hello again,
Whoops, What I said about " every single part of the Estes Maxibrute was scratch built" was close, but not exactly correct. Every part of the main body (fuselage) Wings and nose was scratch built. The same model parts that most everyone else has used for detail came from the existing model world, tanks, cars, model trains etc. The only reason
I am making these comments are to hopefully make it clear that Estes R&D had little or no help from ILM or Lucas in the development of the Estes Star-Wars line of flying model rockets. When we Estes began developing our Star-Wars models, Lucas was still filming on the movie. We were provided a script of the story line and some idea of what the ships roll would be in the movie. The cover title was simply '' THE ADVENTURES OF LUKE STARKILLER". After reading the script we were all hooked. We still are! The images I made at ILM were mostly shot for Estes, there fore the majority of the negatives (color and B&W) remained in their files . I do have several duplicate images that I made for my own pleasure in my files. Perhaps one day............................................................................................
Charlie, AKA Old Coyote
Whoops, What I said about " every single part of the Estes Maxibrute was scratch built" was close, but not exactly correct. Every part of the main body (fuselage) Wings and nose was scratch built. The same model parts that most everyone else has used for detail came from the existing model world, tanks, cars, model trains etc. The only reason
I am making these comments are to hopefully make it clear that Estes R&D had little or no help from ILM or Lucas in the development of the Estes Star-Wars line of flying model rockets. When we Estes began developing our Star-Wars models, Lucas was still filming on the movie. We were provided a script of the story line and some idea of what the ships roll would be in the movie. The cover title was simply '' THE ADVENTURES OF LUKE STARKILLER". After reading the script we were all hooked. We still are! The images I made at ILM were mostly shot for Estes, there fore the majority of the negatives (color and B&W) remained in their files . I do have several duplicate images that I made for my own pleasure in my files. Perhaps one day............................................................................................
Charlie, AKA Old Coyote