Stinson's All Things Star Wars Blog
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A place for me to post all my deeply obsessive thoughts about my favorite movies: the Original Star Wars Trilogy.
Stinson's All Things Star Wars Blog
4M ago
getting close to being able to do something I've wanted to do for a long time: switch between the ANH and ESB versions of the Falcon interior. Always wanted to do a fly through where it switches back and forth between 1977 and 1980 ..read more
Stinson's All Things Star Wars Blog
4M ago
I saw this record cover ages ago and added it to a screensaver slideshow, so every once in a while it pops on screen and I think "those guys are so funky lookin, I gotta model them one day". Well that day is to-day. I think I'll bash together a better apollo-command-module-R2 than I have right here, but I'm happy with DisCo-3PO ..read more
Stinson's All Things Star Wars Blog
5M ago
I don't think I posted this, but I finally got around to building the trapdoor laser
for a long time I was confused about where this cannon popped out from because it's such a tight shot, but it was there all along, no mystery at all.
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Stinson's All Things Star Wars Blog
5M ago
All new and improved... it may looks the same as it did before, but it's the new reference material I found that counts. Trust me it's more accurate than ever before...
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Stinson's All Things Star Wars Blog
1y ago
a few pieces of damage away from completing the modeling. Let's see if this most recent burst of energy will carry me through a materials phase.
Students of the 5-Foot filming model will no doubt recognize a lot of things, and also be puzzled by a lot of things. This full-scale prop is a rats nest of perfectly observed details and then wild deviations. Guess that's true really of all the Falcons. If you get a saucer, two forks, a nose, and a cockpit in roughly the right shape and then cover it with enough kitbash stuff it'll pretty much look like the Falcon.
What a pieces of junk ..read more
Stinson's All Things Star Wars Blog
1y ago
been working on this version for a long time, I think I'm finally getting close to done...
and got to create some rigging in blender ..read more
Stinson's All Things Star Wars Blog
4y ago
The R1 on the left is fairly well known from the ANH scene where R2 and 3PO are sold by the Jawas, and it's also pretty established that the design was based on a book cover painted by Chris Foss. Much less well knows is that R1's brother on the right, who resides at Mos Eisley and is seen for all of a handful of frames in the background as our heroes arrive at that well known hive of scum and villainy.
These models are from all new photomatches of behind the scenes materials. I'm setting these up for a collaboration with the incomparable Jason Eaton ..read more
Stinson's All Things Star Wars Blog
4y ago
So it's fairly well known that the back wall of the Falcon's cockpit is a little wonky in the first movie
The story goes that on ANH (left) they built it to match the specs so that in pre-production it looked like its counterpart in ESB (right), and then at some point Lucas said he wanted the cockpit to feel more cramped and some last minute adjustments were made. I'm not entirely sure I buy the official story that Lucas wanted a smaller cockpit, if for no other reason than that it doesn't actually make the cockpit that much smaller. So is it just an error in assembly that got overlooked ..read more
Stinson's All Things Star Wars Blog
4y ago
I was looking at the holochess table in the ESB main hold and it has some details that are different than the ANH version. ESB has these big white rectangular greebles, instead of the silver knobs on ANH. In fact they're still present on the table that's on display at disney studios ..read more