joberg
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Nope, this is the regular model, not the "close-up" one.From this angle in the movie, it looks more like the closeup model
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Nope, this is the regular model, not the "close-up" one.From this angle in the movie, it looks more like the closeup model
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I know, Im saying the angle of the tube on the regular model is the same as the closeup. I could have worded it better!Nope, this is the regular model, not the "close-up" one.![]()
Four models were built. The 8' / 10' main version (restored model), 4' model with engine lighting for the planet sequence (never been seen since, so presumably destroyed), 6' nose section and the small 14'' version towing the refinery model.yep, Promod mentioned it before and I am aware of it but there are definitely 2 versions of the original ship, predating the Prop-store restoration it seems...there's the large, cockpit only, model made for the hero shot on the planet, with the probe parallel tube, and another full made ship, probably the restored ship, with the docking tube perpendicular to the face, which still has traces of the original yellow paint job
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Do. Not. Give. Him. Ideas!!if your Building this at 6th scale I'm quitting.
this shot?There was an interior shot of Ripley in front of a huge window, surrounded by layers of what I think were different scales of model space shuttle External Tanks.
That and the artificial interior rain made me wonder if part of the movie took place in the refinery being towed and not just Nostromo. As big as that towing ship is..could those sets fit inside?
Or do we have a Jupiter 2 situation writ large?
Now we know why full stack shuttle kits became so hard to find.
The shuttles/lifeboats fit easily between the main fuselage and the large engines at the sides. The Narcissus scale may be off for these shots but the Nostromo's meant to be a massive ship, and the refinery's humungous.Would that fit inside Nostromo?
When watching the movie I thought most of what was going on took place in the refinery…Nostromo itself just being the cockpit and little else—mostly filled with machinery.