I think studio models from ILM/Lucasfilm are the holy grail for many fans. Projects like these always earn my highest respect because they look exactly like these studio models, just in a different size and scale. Apart from all the incredible wiring you did, the paint job on both the B-Wing looks amazing! I cannot imagine this concept look any better. I can only omagine all the LEDs you integrated into the cockpit, but looking at the picture my favourite detail are the turbine engines!
It just looks stunning - especially with the lights on the display stand.
Also the pictures you took are stunning talking about detail and sharpness!
Thanks for sharing your inspiring work!
- Philipp
Thanks so much for the kind words!
When I got started Making, I built props from my favorite movies. I was really inspired by Adam Savage, and thought, well, if I want that particular prop, it's either gonna be thousands of dollars, or a lot of learning and hard work. And it was so much fun!
I started doing these ships because I remember seeing the behind-the-scenes making of the original trilogy as a kid, and wanted one of those filming models sooooo bad. A friend of mine is a Comic Book and Maquette artist named Andy Price (MLP), and I was gonna commission him to paint me up an AT-AT, but I figured I'd try and learn to do it myself. So after practicing on other projects, I tried my first one, which was a snowspeeder. Learned a lot, and on the next one I applied what i had learned, but tried to add something new, like lighting. The first B-wing I did had a cut up piece of strip LED lighting, which didn't work super well, but I hadn't learned how to do Fiber optic and my own wiring. So, the next one, i tried to learn to do that. And so on and so on, trying to be better than the last.
I thing the next ship I'm gonna do is a Classic TIE, but first I have to build a full-size Tom Servo for my wife. After that, not sure, but i still need to do an A-Wing, and I think I'll spend the cash for a really nice Studio scale Y-Wing kit, or if I have my own FormLabs2 printer, I'll use that.
Oh, and the inner cone details on the engines? Those are faucet aerators! Just happened to run across some ones with a cool pattern
