{"id":1139,"date":"2023-08-24T11:26:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2024-07-22T20:27:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:27:29","slug":"my-star-wars-rebel-fleet-plamo-diorama-is-nearly-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/my-star-wars-rebel-fleet-plamo-diorama-is-nearly-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"My Star Wars Rebel fleet plamo diorama is nearly complete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ve been slowly working on this project for seven years. It started out with me just wanting to build and light up the Rebel Transport. This was back when I worked for Aoshima. I had wired it for lighting, took it to work to show a coworker, then placed it on the front seat of my car so as not to upset the bosshole because that grumpy dingbat bitched about everything. But the sun shone on it for many hours, causing the air inside the empty shell to overheat and warp the plastic. It was a lost cause, but fortunately my friend Steve (SMKR on YouTube) sent me a replacement! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These model ships came from the old MPC\/AMT Rebel Hangar diorama from the early ’80s. There was the Hoth Battle and this hangar, and both came with lousy vacuform bases. I had the battle with the AT-ATs and Snowspeeders when I was a child. The Falcon isn’t too bad when looking at it from the top and bottom, but the sidewalls are crap. The back engine is completely featureless, as are the docking rings on the side. I added greeblies and pipes to the sides to spruce the kit up. The same for the X-Wings, where I added sewing pins to recreate the laser cannons properly. The Snowspeeders aren’t too bad, but the Y-Wings were sculpted without proper reference material and were obviously made going off of someone’s memory. Nothing is really in scale with others, although the X-Wings are in scale with the Falcon. I’ve been chronicling the process of this build on my Tumblr<\/a> account and will update it again once I am finished. I envision this as a scene between the events of A New Hope<\/em> and The Empire Strikes Back.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve been slowly working on this project for seven years. It started out with me just wanting to build and light up the Rebel Transport. This was back when I worked for Aoshima. I had wired it for lighting, took it to work to show a coworker, then placed it on the front seat of … <\/p>\n

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