I found this a fascinating watch, and hope some of you do as well.
Of particular note is Adam’s anecdote at 5:22 where he notices the chipping on this model and describes being taught the specific technique to do it when he was at ILM in the 2000’s — a technique that is now ubiquitous among armor modelers: the darker metal chip within a larger paint-colored chip. I first saw it in a Panzermeister36 video a few years back, but now I wonder if it was “invented” by ILM in 1976! As pointed out in the video, the idea of “weathering” was brand new back then, at least in Hollywood – they had to invent the term “boilerplate” to describe it.
I guess that begs the question: were people making “weathered” tank models in 1976?
Cool vid.
That sure brings back memories. I was only 7 when STAR WARS came out. But seeing all those cool starships and spacecraft made me want to get into model building in later years. That, plus viewing some of the behind-the-scenes photos of the production of the film that were on the old TOPPS movie cards, particuarly the orange border ones.
Oh yes they were. Look no further than Sheperd Paine’s work for Monogram all through the 70’s. He was the inspiration for many a young modeler in that era.
Also the source of the word greeblies to describe the random parts from other sources used to make something up.
Notice the source material for most of the Millennium Falcon construction on the shelves and table.
Ah, the good old days of movie model making. You don’t see that much anymore now that most movie studios rely on CGI for a lot of effects and stuff.
It’s a shame a lot of those kits were robbed of parts and such. But it was for a good cause. Sacrifices had to be made in order to bring us some of the most memorable movies in cinema history.
Well on the other hand all those kits robbed of parts to make practical effects probably cost them .0001% of what the same thing would cost now in CGI!
You don’t see that much anymore now that most movie studios rely on CGI for a lot of effects and stuff.