Scratchbuilt Lambda Shuttle

[MonsieurTox]

(11-05-2010, 06:08 PM)427 Cobra Wrote: I'd hate to be the one to say it first, but the cockpit is just a hair too high. Neil hit it right on the head when he made his version of this. Did you get a chance to measure his before surrendering it back to its' owner? This is the Shuttle Tyderium which is a "Lambda class shuttle" - not a "Lambda shuttle". But I guess that means it's qualified enough to go to college? This is an inside college joke for those who never went. LAMBDA was one of the houses on campus.

The head (cockpit) also looks a litte too thin. I'll have to check the studio model again to be sure, but I think this is just a liitte smaller, and less angular than the original. I know the life sized studio version is angled down a little more. Take a look at the actual studio model, and see what I mean.

Thanks for the comments Chris, some clarifications though :

The cockpit is just hold by tape right now and it's too horizontal because of the tape on the shot.

As for Neil's shuttle, unfortunatly the cockpit was undersized (see this pic, I used a styrene pull made by Neil for my first cockpit)



But regarding the measurements, the new cockpit I made is accurate, it's 25 mm longer than the old one, I used the ortho production pics (with ruler) ILM took, hundred of ref pics of the original and the kitparts so I'm 100% positive my measurements are correct (and they are proportionned to the whole model).

Now the shape of the cockpit itself is not 1% correct, the original was handmade as mine is, so it's impossible to be perfect. Just look at the MR AT-AT which was 3D scanned and was still way off in comparison of the original. That's because the original (AT-AT and shuttle cockpit) were hand carved and were not symetrical, my cockpit is probably not symétrical either. The biggest problem is that my cockpit was too rounded at the canopy location, which is now corrected, more flat, more accurate. The horns should be curved too, mine are not enough and maybe the side "jaws" are not set at the correct angle, but I'm not sure, it depends of the pic I'm looking at and on the original model those jaw parts are not at the same angle... I made the choice to put mine the symetrical way.

Regarding the fact mine is less angular than the original, I know it doesn"t show on the pic of George weathering the Shuttle, but the original it's well rounded.

Anyway thanks for the input, I appreciate any kind of criticisms.

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(11-05-2010, 04:02 PM)dbhs Wrote: I'm asking about the bend in the wings in the side wings. What's the internal material there?

The wings are built a bit like a Vought Corsair wing, those are not too parts -the wing root and the bend wing- glued together, it's a whole part. It's all styrene and forex and since it's built like an airplane wing, it's very strong ! Of course there're a lot of reinforcement parts and several laminated parts to avoid any waring or sagging... I reckon they're a bit heavy, but stronger than my old acrylic wings !