ANH Hero DL-44 Discussion - Three ANH Greeblies Found

[Jonflake88]

I’m putting a new log on the fire here!

But I’m circling back to my DL-44. Reorganizing/remodeling my collection display and was thinking about giving my DL44 some cleaning and maybe updates.

But it got me thinking, was there ever a definitive consensus on whether or not the upper was painted? Or just the lower? I know there was some debate on this…

 

[chubsANDdoggers]

Or… was it even painted at all? Don’t think there was anything ever conclusive on those fronts and it’s always been subjective..

 

[Jedifather]

Doesn’t look like paint to me, in those pics.

 

[thd9791]

In those shots it doesn’t look like the paint we see in other places in ANH, that heavy lacquer. If epoxy is enough to strip some kind of heavy blueing that would be my guess!

 

[Jonflake88]

Yea that’s what I thought! I didn’t know if maybe in the few years since I checked on this thread maybe something had been illuminated. Originally I went for replicating the hero but now I’m considering tweaking it to an idealized version. But more information is always good!

 

[chubsANDdoggers]

thd9791 what pics do u mean? Those above are the best ones available of the blaster in its final form that I’ve seen personally. Outside of the black and white pics that is but one can’t judge from those obviously. The top and lower look to be the same color while the heat sink certainly is black. Strong contrast in color between the 3 (HSG, Top and Bottom) for sure regardless..

Here’s a couple more that may lead one to believe it might be black but it’s from the same photo shoot and there’s to much shade to make a real judgement. That and there is again the above pics which seem to show otherwise..

From the film itself it’s really hard to see but here is a pic from the Greedo scene..