german Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 guys.... please look at this pictures, taken at the "Star wars, The exhibition" at Santiago, Chile, today, a couple hours ago.... sorry for the bad quality of the pic ..... Please have in mind that the exhibition states all the props and models ARE the ones used on the making of the movies... The doubt?? remember how the AMT model is assembled and the monkey on the office....... Thanks for your comments!! German Quote Link to post Share on other sites
niart17 Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 (edited) so are you asking if this is in fact a studio prop? to me it LOOKS more like the AMT kit. what size is it? Edited May 9, 2009 by niart17 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
german Posted May 9, 2009 Author Share Posted May 9, 2009 (edited) to be honest, just to confirm my suspect it is the amt one... cheers German edit... and in fact, it looks right the size of the amt one.... (and i have built 5 of them)... Edited May 9, 2009 by german Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Maybe they use the "Studio Model" term loosely ... This might be the AMT kit built by a ILM Studio modeler ... I've seen actual filmed for the movies studio models, this was back in the 1987 at Disneyland when Star Tours first opened ... Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Loggie Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 No way that a studio model would have had any shade of blue for the canopy frame. Blue screen effect used for filming, you know. George, out........................ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MiG31 Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 (edited) Except that a number of filming minis had shades of blue-gray on them, notably TIE fighters and interceptors, and Y-wings. It's possible the model in the OP was used in the movies, but assuming it was an AMT model it may have been used as background filler. The effects modelers were known to use MPC Star Wars kits for some of their work. Edited May 9, 2009 by MiG31 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HWR MKII Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 It is in fact one of the fabled MPC kit filming models. They were used in Return of the Jedi for some of the larger battle scenes. Thanks for those pictures. Got any more of it? Id like to see the other side or underside. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jay Chladek Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 HWR is probably correct. I haven't seen pictures of the MPC studio models, so I can't confirm if this particular X-Wing is one of them, but it probably is. By ROTJ, the MPC kits had been out for a few years and as such, given the scope of the battle sequences around the Death Star in that film, some MPC models were used to swell the ranks of the rebel fleet in certain shots where ships were needed in the background. It wasn't the first time ILM had used MPC Star Wars kits as it seems for Empire Strikes Back, they did utilize the wings of the MPC Vader's TIE Fighter to make the TIE Bomber studio model (after a bit of modification though). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
3Dguy Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Another little nugget of info- The studio models used (I assume) for closeup shots had no canopy glass, only the frame. They did this to eliminate glare and reflections. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HWR MKII Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Seeing how the wings are closed its most likely used in Empire and Jedi. Lukes X-wing. The distant shots as it approached cloud city and as it was leaving Tatooine in jedi. Could have been used in some of the fleet scenes in jedi as they were gathering before the jump. Im not one crazy enough to freezeframe the movie to find out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
3Dguy Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 It's not Luke's X-Wing. Luke's was Red 5 and since this one has only two red stripes on the wing's trailing edges, that would make this one Red 2 which was Wedge Antilles' ship in A New Hope. Since Wedge was promoted to Red Leader (Red 1) by Jedi obviously someone else would be flying Red 2 in the film, in fact Wedge specifically mentions this when he compliments Red 2 on a nice shot. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 I believe the model represents Red 3 though ... Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
3Dguy Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 I was thinking that too but it looks like (at least to me) that the inboard-most stripe is actually a raised bit of detail and not a red stripe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MoFo Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 It is in fact one of the fabled MPC kit filming models. They were used in Return of the Jedi for some of the larger battle scenes. Thanks for those pictures. Got any more of it? Id like to see the other side or underside. So does that mean that the AMT kit is an inaccurate scale model of a studio prop, but an accurate 1:1 replica of a... different studio prop? :P Meaning the 1/72 and 1/48 Fine Molds kits are actually inaccurate, from a certain perspective? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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