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Docking Bay: Cranes 1:72
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Docking Bay 94 – Special Edition era – cranes.
The 1997 Special Edition release of episode IV, and all subsequent official versions, features a notably different moment during the Falcon's departure sequence. In the original film the Falcon was never shown lifting out of the docking bay itself. Instead, the original 1977 movie simply cut from a shot of the interior set to the Tunisian external set, with a composited model of the ship blasting off into the sky.
The Special Edition added a brief CGI sequence, depicting a moving Falcon. This sequence showed the upper portion of the cylindrical docking bay building, which was never built as part of the 1977 set. In fact, I've never seen any drawings, blueprints, or paintings showing what this upper section was supposed to look like, so I suspect it was never designed at all back in the 70s. They just designed and built the lower half of the cylindrical bay, and that was fine.
Guesswork.
Since the cranes were never physically built, and existed solely as computer models, almost no material is available on what they actually were supposed to look like. In fact, as far as I'm aware the only reference we have are freeze frames of the Special Edition footage. That's it! And these frames are taken from a fast-moving sequence, so the cranes are pretty blurry.
Accordingly I've just had to guess some of the details on these models. I've added a few rivets and minor other things to reflect what seems to be suggested by the shadows and blurs of the original footage. Also, presumably there are cranes all the way around the cylindrical bay, but only two are shown in the movie. They're slightly different in design, and I've tried to replicate those differences. I've also had to eyeball and guess the size of the cranes relative to the J-shaped pipes on the ground.
Some assembly required.
The cranes are printed in segments. The wedge-shaped arm bits are separate from the wall-mounted frames so you can glue them on at whatever angle you wish. The frames also have very narrow vertical bars, and those were a bit fragile to print. So I've sprued the longer pair on each frame. You'll have to cut those bars off the sprues - very carefully since the 3D-printed acrylic plastic is really brittle - and glue them into the holes in the frames.
There's a lot of other stuff on the upper walls of the docking bays, but I don't plan on modelling those. They're mostly pipes and whatnot, and more easily made using brass wire and styrene tubes. I might make the rusty wall vent things at some point, though.
The 1997 Special Edition release of episode IV, and all subsequent official versions, features a notably different moment during the Falcon's departure sequence. In the original film the Falcon was never shown lifting out of the docking bay itself. Instead, the original 1977 movie simply cut from a shot of the interior set to the Tunisian external set, with a composited model of the ship blasting off into the sky.
The Special Edition added a brief CGI sequence, depicting a moving Falcon. This sequence showed the upper portion of the cylindrical docking bay building, which was never built as part of the 1977 set. In fact, I've never seen any drawings, blueprints, or paintings showing what this upper section was supposed to look like, so I suspect it was never designed at all back in the 70s. They just designed and built the lower half of the cylindrical bay, and that was fine.
Guesswork.
Since the cranes were never physically built, and existed solely as computer models, almost no material is available on what they actually were supposed to look like. In fact, as far as I'm aware the only reference we have are freeze frames of the Special Edition footage. That's it! And these frames are taken from a fast-moving sequence, so the cranes are pretty blurry.
Accordingly I've just had to guess some of the details on these models. I've added a few rivets and minor other things to reflect what seems to be suggested by the shadows and blurs of the original footage. Also, presumably there are cranes all the way around the cylindrical bay, but only two are shown in the movie. They're slightly different in design, and I've tried to replicate those differences. I've also had to eyeball and guess the size of the cranes relative to the J-shaped pipes on the ground.
Some assembly required.
The cranes are printed in segments. The wedge-shaped arm bits are separate from the wall-mounted frames so you can glue them on at whatever angle you wish. The frames also have very narrow vertical bars, and those were a bit fragile to print. So I've sprued the longer pair on each frame. You'll have to cut those bars off the sprues - very carefully since the 3D-printed acrylic plastic is really brittle - and glue them into the holes in the frames.
There's a lot of other stuff on the upper walls of the docking bays, but I don't plan on modelling those. They're mostly pipes and whatnot, and more easily made using brass wire and styrene tubes. I might make the rusty wall vent things at some point, though.
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