03-02-2010, 03:23 AM
(03-01-2010, 11:14 AM)jasonwright.1972 Wrote: Well give us more cause that was a real teaser.
I'm trying Jase, but there's not much more to see. Just a bunch of bad castings... going to be meeting with a used-to-be Smooth-On salesman... my buddy's old classmate from an MFA program. This should take a lot of the guesswork out of what combination will work best for my modest setup!
Cobra Cris, Thanks for the thorough reply. I ALWAYS forget that Red 3 doesn't represent an ANH ship... though some of the parts are undoubtedly the same, as you said reused from what was left. Still a great point of reference but I guess I feel like the rug has been pulled. I need better true ANH reference and I know there are better versions of the Red 2 set. I see bits of them pop up here and there but all I have is the low-res Ken Rice/Uwe Fisher sets. If anyone has anything, please PM, I beg you!
I don't think I am choosing the right way to explain my thoughts on the hero pyro issue. I understand there is no in between. You have the motor controlled miniatures and the Pyros. I only meant to them, at the time, they must have thought their 'pyro' molds were the end of the process. They finally got it... after all the trouble... a complete X wing to do with as they please. In this case, explode! I am not of the thinking that parts were combined as they went. It seems logical to me; build the mocos... get molds ready for the rest of the doomed fleet. No time or need to build transitional versions.
So what is left to see? By my count we're only missing Red Leader. But which 3 X wings do we see locking their s foils in ANH. Red 5, Red 1, and...?
As Cobra Cris mentioned all we can see are lighting gels with a painted border on the early shots of Blue Leader and eventually abandoning 'glassing' the canopies all together.
Re: major construction accuracy. I can see places where the inside of the Hero buck was made to accept acrylic sheets attached to the tube of the armature. I'd like to include these in my construction as well, but I'm still wondering what exactly is going on for the hero bottoms. I do not agree the white thing on the end is just a weight to hold the mold in place. It is too precise and they did make styrene bottoms, if they used them or not; that is there vacuform buck of the bottom sitting right there. The hero fuselage, is already re-enforced by these acrylic sections to accept the fuselage tops and bottoms. Even though Red 3 has been repaired with styrene, the bottom is made of styrene. Look at the back, and the bottom mounting point. If its not styrene, its thin white something!
Yes the mulions! That is what they are called... again having forgotten that Red 3 is not ANH Red 3. Still, if they used a file to cut the windows on the ANH Hero versions... with no panel line, edge, or intention of holding glass... it really explains how each bird gets its unique canopy.