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Re: Star Wars Dioramas?
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 14 Jan 2003 02:53:29 GMT
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Bruce,
> I hope you guys don't slow down. I've always enjoyed your work, as have a
> whole bunch of people here and at fbtb.
It's inevitable as my sons are slowly drifting to more important things in
their lives and myself raring to go back to doing action figure dioramas.
> There are certainly other SW dioramas out there. The work of S. Fujita of
> course sets the standard. That great Hoth layout Shaun and Dave did is
> another great example. I've seen lots of smaller things here and there.
> Also there are some great Brickfilms that are set in SW dioramas.
That's still a small amount of people getting their hands on it.
> That said, though, I agree that there are fewer dioramas in SW than in
> something like, say, Castle. But that's kind of the nature of the beast.
> The SW line (and Space in general) has always been more about ships than
> about settings. In the whole official SW line there's like 1 baseplate (in
> the Naboo Swamp set) (maybe there's one in the Jabba's Palace set?). There
> are a few more set pieces, but they're generally small--the control center
> from the B-Wing set, the tree from the Speeder Bikes set, etc. Contrast
> this with Castle, Town, Wild West, etc, where the emphasis is much more on
> buildings, with some wagons or catapults or cars driving around them.
That fact alone should have generated much more interest in building more
dioramas even if they were not as elaborate as the ones you mentioned or as
some of our works.
> Anyway, please keep up the great work. Even if more people aren't copying
> you, it doesn't mean that they aren't inspiring us to greater building
> heights, both within the SW area and in other areas. For instance, your
> recent "Going Podracing" scene has a lot of inspiration to me as a Castle
> builder.
We'll do as time permits but judging with the amount of responses about this
topic has generated it doesn't look much brighter.
Regards,
ACPin & Sons
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| AC, I hope you guys don't slow down. I've always enjoyed your work, as have a whole bunch of people here and at fbtb. There are certainly other SW dioramas out there. The work of S. Fujita of course sets the standard. That great Hoth layout Shaun (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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