Subject:
|
Re: 2000 A-Wing comments
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.starwars
|
Date:
|
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:50:41 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
630 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, John VanZwieten writes:
>
> > I disagree somewhat here. One of the major things that excited everyone • about
> > the x-wing, snowspeeder, and y-wing was how close they came to being to scale
> > w/ a minifig and with each other. The a-wing is a disappointment only • because
> > it's obviously too small.
>
> Umm. Having had the opportunity to study the production model for the A-Wing
> on several occasions, both in person (at "The Art of Star Wars" exhibit in
> Yerba Buena Gardens, San Franscisco, and "Star Wars: the Magic of Myth" in the
> Smithsonian) and in photographs (various ILM books), I can guarantee you that
> if anything, the A-Wing is too *large*, not too small.
>
> eric
Here is Ben Fleskes' original message about the relative sizes of the X-Wing
and the Y-Wing: < http://www.lugnet.com/starwars/?n=2091 >
In brief, the average ratio comes to 2.854 studs/meters. TLG's A-Wing is 21
studs long, making the Ratio for it 2.21 s/m. My A-Wing(1) is 25 studs long,
with a 2.68 Ratio, which is pretty close.
Also, Terry Keller and I both accidentally scaled our B-Wings almost
perfectly, while TLG's B-Wing is 36 studs long, giving it a length of 12.5
meters, well short of the actual 16 meters for the "real" B-Wing.
These models could easily have been made to scale, and yet they weren't.
This is one of the main reasons I am *so* disappointed with them. I can easily
understand and accept why the larger craft(Slave-1, Millenium Falcon, MTT) have
to be compressed, which is one reason why I am *not* particularily disappointed
with them.
Jeff
"I've had enough. I will not allow this! I will pay you back; because
forgiveness, for one like you, could never be an option."
1 - <plug> Vote for my A-Wing on LDraw.org's Model of the Month! </plug>
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: 2000 A-Wing comments
|
| (...) Umm. Having had the opportunity to study the production model for the A-Wing on several occasions, both in person (at "The Art of Star Wars" exhibit in Yerba Buena Gardens, San Franscisco, and "Star Wars: the Magic of Myth" in the Smithsonian) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
|
24 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
