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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Re: Death Star custom project
« on: January 21, 2006, 07:12 AM »
I think that with some CUSTOMIZING updates, the vintage Death Star Space Station would go beautifully with the current modern figures!!
I currently own TWO boxed DSSS’s and I’m about to pick up a third. Here are the customizing updates that I have planned for all three:
1) On the Top Floor, the Laser Cannon, the control chair, and the “explode” lever will all be airbrushed in a realistic “gun-metal” grey with metallic silver weathering highlights. That cannon was a PERFECT sculpt of the cannon seen in the film (kudos to Kenner!). Just imagine the seat cushions on the chair painted in semi-gloss black to simulate real vinyl !!! Yeeaahh!!!! I will add power hoses around the base of the gun. And I will add custom stickers (depicting the red energy discharges seen through the cannon's circular power chamber)
2) On the First Floor, the Trash Compactor will get a face-lift. It will be re-painted (inside and out) in a less garish color (probably dingy grey with dirt and rust streak “weathering”). I’ll get rid of the multi-colored FOAM “garbage” and green Dianoga monster. They’ll be replaced with the movie-accurate sculpted “garbage” and Dianoga from the SAGA Trash Compactor Movie Scene two-packs.
3) The stickers for this playset need updating too. The computer terminal panel stickers (for the second floor) and the “Tractor Beam” terminal stickers (for the top elevator shaft) will be made more screen accurate.
4) The 3rd floor “Light-Bridge” that Luke and Leia swing across will be updated a bit. I plan on using the (screen accurate) bridge platform sections that were included with the POTJ 25th Anniversary “Swing to Freedom” set. I’ve got several of those just laying around.
5) Those “slide-in” cardboard backdrops will be spruced up a bit too. The glossy outer sides look fine to me, so I’ll leave those alone. But the dull inner sides need some help. I think they should be more movie accurate, photo-realistic, and not so “illustrated”. For example, on the second floor, the cardboard backdrop depicts a large battle viewscreen that displays an X-Wing versus Tie Fighter scene. I think that I will replace that scene with a PHOTO of an actual Hasbro X-Wing and Tie Fighter engaged in combat!!! I just whipped this up using Adobe Photoshop, but the final version will be a lot sexier (more shadowy "outer space" lighting on the fighters, motion blur on the stars, no “droop” on the s-foils of the X-wing, etc) !!:
I currently own TWO boxed DSSS’s and I’m about to pick up a third. Here are the customizing updates that I have planned for all three:
1) On the Top Floor, the Laser Cannon, the control chair, and the “explode” lever will all be airbrushed in a realistic “gun-metal” grey with metallic silver weathering highlights. That cannon was a PERFECT sculpt of the cannon seen in the film (kudos to Kenner!). Just imagine the seat cushions on the chair painted in semi-gloss black to simulate real vinyl !!! Yeeaahh!!!! I will add power hoses around the base of the gun. And I will add custom stickers (depicting the red energy discharges seen through the cannon's circular power chamber)
2) On the First Floor, the Trash Compactor will get a face-lift. It will be re-painted (inside and out) in a less garish color (probably dingy grey with dirt and rust streak “weathering”). I’ll get rid of the multi-colored FOAM “garbage” and green Dianoga monster. They’ll be replaced with the movie-accurate sculpted “garbage” and Dianoga from the SAGA Trash Compactor Movie Scene two-packs.
3) The stickers for this playset need updating too. The computer terminal panel stickers (for the second floor) and the “Tractor Beam” terminal stickers (for the top elevator shaft) will be made more screen accurate.
4) The 3rd floor “Light-Bridge” that Luke and Leia swing across will be updated a bit. I plan on using the (screen accurate) bridge platform sections that were included with the POTJ 25th Anniversary “Swing to Freedom” set. I’ve got several of those just laying around.
5) Those “slide-in” cardboard backdrops will be spruced up a bit too. The glossy outer sides look fine to me, so I’ll leave those alone. But the dull inner sides need some help. I think they should be more movie accurate, photo-realistic, and not so “illustrated”. For example, on the second floor, the cardboard backdrop depicts a large battle viewscreen that displays an X-Wing versus Tie Fighter scene. I think that I will replace that scene with a PHOTO of an actual Hasbro X-Wing and Tie Fighter engaged in combat!!! I just whipped this up using Adobe Photoshop, but the final version will be a lot sexier (more shadowy "outer space" lighting on the fighters, motion blur on the stars, no “droop” on the s-foils of the X-wing, etc) !!:
