What you see here is a rescaled (1:50) build up of Jules Perdana's T-47 Snowspeeder, (which can be found at http://paper-replika.com/) with pilot figures of my own design seated in the cockpit.
It has been several months since I finished the base build of this beauty, and its been waiting for my pilot figures to be complete. While a bit difficult to build scaled down (the original scale is 1:20) it was a pleasure to have all of it come together so neatly and with very few fit-up issues. The WIP thread can be found at Paper Modeler's Forum (I'll dig up the link once the site is back up), but I wanted to share the final assembly pictures here.
The two pilots are from my Paper Protagonist series and are available for download here. As the snowspeeder cockpit is a bit poorly designed (Not a fault of Jules' I must say: they had to add 'box' structures to the set prop to make room for the actors' legs), so I had to shoehorn the pilots in place and truncate their legs. In retrospect I probably should have just made the scaled version a bit bigger to accommodate, but I am a scale junkie and my OCD wouldn't allow it.
I only made a few minor changes to the model, adding an acetate floating base, hinges to the cockpit and clear acetate wedges to hold the canopy down. The last picture has a Canada penny (2 cm diameter) in the shot to give you a sense of size.
Enjoy!
Sean
It has been several months since I finished the base build of this beauty, and its been waiting for my pilot figures to be complete. While a bit difficult to build scaled down (the original scale is 1:20) it was a pleasure to have all of it come together so neatly and with very few fit-up issues. The WIP thread can be found at Paper Modeler's Forum (I'll dig up the link once the site is back up), but I wanted to share the final assembly pictures here.
The two pilots are from my Paper Protagonist series and are available for download here. As the snowspeeder cockpit is a bit poorly designed (Not a fault of Jules' I must say: they had to add 'box' structures to the set prop to make room for the actors' legs), so I had to shoehorn the pilots in place and truncate their legs. In retrospect I probably should have just made the scaled version a bit bigger to accommodate, but I am a scale junkie and my OCD wouldn't allow it.
I only made a few minor changes to the model, adding an acetate floating base, hinges to the cockpit and clear acetate wedges to hold the canopy down. The last picture has a Canada penny (2 cm diameter) in the shot to give you a sense of size.
Enjoy!
Sean
very well...
