September 23, 2001
I found these fancy thumbtacks at my hardware store.
20 for $1.99. They resemble detail seen in my behind
the scenes stills.
I cut out a circle, just a bit bigger then the tack,
and place the tack in the center. This helps raise
the tack to better resemble the movie set. |
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September 23, 2001
The picture is a bit fuzzy - sorry - but you can
see the thumbtacks placed on each side of the beams. |
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September 23, 2001
Thats all I had time for today so I thought I would
end with a picture of Han Solo sitting at his console.
We still have a long way to go but at least we are
in the right direction - LOL. |
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September 29, 2001
One of the details that will really bring the ship
to life are the hallway "pillows" that you
see along the tube walls.
Step 1 is to make tiny rectangles out of Super Sculpey.
Step 2, round the corners using your fingers to give
a pillow look.
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And Step 3,
Cut a groove edge in the back so that it can fit on the
circular rails that support and hide the hallway connections. |
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September 29, 2001
Great, now I only have 145 more to do :( -
Niubniub is hysterical crying at this point - LOL.
I thought the Sarlaac "cat claws" were
a pain to make, little did I know... :) |
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September 30, 2001
Guess what? I didn't feel like making pillows today
so I decided to paint the walls instead :)
I used my trusty car metalic spray paints. It's easy
to apply and gives a shiny metalic feel to the diorama.
And not too expensive either. 1 can cost about $4.95. |
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September 30, 2001
I made the floor decals in Photoshop 6, printed on
glossy film paper and used gluestick to bond the decals
to the foamcore floor.
Now it just needs those pillows :( |
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September 30, 2001
Time for some detailing of the rear wall.
I took a roll of poster tube and cut it the width
of the grooves between each collumn of the back wall. |
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September 30, 2001
Because the tube is too wide, I cut down the center
and removed a chunk from the tube. |
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September 30, 2001
This is what it looks like when glued into place.
I used the Hot Glue Gun for that.
I also used the same car paint to color the tubing. |
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September 30, 2001
This is a wide version of where the tubes fit on
the rear wall.
I placed 2 on the right side to make it more irregular
but I think these will be hidden by the bed bunk wall
unit.
I only noticed this excisted when looking at the
millennium falcon 3D tour found in the Behind the
Magic CD-Rom. |
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September 30, 2001
Next step, I took some shishkabob sticks and poked
them through the columns in order to make them look
like piping.
I painted them silver though you can't see that
really in the picture.
These pipes will keep the objects in storage from
falling out. |
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September 30, 2001
Now it's time for even more detail. Sure I could
have just made another decal, but I wanted to give
these boxes depth like in the real movie set.
I used the foamcore pieces I had cut out of the
main wall and just added a 1 cm strip all around to
make a jewel box type shape. |
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September 30, 2001
Next, I went to Radio Shack and bought all sorts
of wires and doo dads that looked like cool shapes.
I used the Hot Glue Gun to keep them in place and
just placed them one on top of each other until they
looked cool.
You can see in the picture what panel I am making. |
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September 30, 2001
Next is the cover box, or panel if you prefer.
Using thin cardboard stock, I cut out the same shape
as the hole in the wall and painted it grey and smudges
of silver paint to weather it a bit. |
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