Original X-Wing Model from Star Wars: Episode IV!
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2022
- Adam visits Prop Store ahead of their upcoming Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction to get a rare up-close look at one of the few surviving X-Wing miniatures from the making of Star Wars: Episode IV. Inspecting the paint finish and preserved surface of this gorgeous filming miniature is like a looking into the early days of the ILM model shop, with every detail revealing first hand the care and attention that went into the first Star Wars movie.
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Keep us apprised what this fetches at auction. I can imagine quite a bit.
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I just saw this prop at the Star Wars Celebration, it's amazing to see something that wasn't meant to survive the movie shoot, let alone forty five years and still look good...I forgot to take a photo of it but this exists so I can always watch it again.
Estimate of $500,000 - $1,000,000, a bid of $500,000 is already down.
Sad that Colin Cantwell, who designed it, and so many iconic Star Wars craft, died a few days ago. He left a great legacy.
R.i.p i didn't know that..thats so sad 🥺😥😢
A true artist , his legacy will continue on for many years to come ✝️🇺🇸🤙🏻🅰️
Is that where it came from maybe?
@@cookingwithjesus Lucas always said the initial design came from Ralph McQuarries concept art same as a lot of other OG designs.
Whether he died or not he left a great legacy. I have never even seen a single film of star wars and I totally get it.
Sad that 'sometimes' we have to lose something to realize how great that something was e.g Colin
Brandon probably had countless mini heart attacks while Adam was talking with his hands next to the model. Lol
Oh man you know it! Even I was like, Don't touch that!
I was sweating the whole time
I know he wasn't going to damage it, but the perfectionist in me was for sure thinking, "Adam, step back dude!"
Right?
I totally noticed that too!! I was like, Damn his hands are kinda out of control....
It's more amazing this model survived Adam's flailing hands, than decades of storage.
According to Hollywood Reporter, the final sale price was: $2,375,000
HAHAHAHAHA!!! I was about to make the same observation. Adam's Savage hands were making me cringe! I was waiting for some Leslie Nielsen Naked Gun destruction to happen at any moment... Gloves are not good enough. Handcuff this man next time, Props Store.
ITS MORE AMAZING THAT HE REFERRED TO THE LASER CANNONS AS RADAR DISHES!
he's just all over the place ain't he? the other dude stands there with his hands clasped, just praying.....lol
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He's referring to the blast suppressors just behind the barrel. It's possible that the model makers used parts of radar dishes from military model kits to build these.
So this thing was meant to be destroyed twice, and it’s lasted this long, and looks this good?
Fantastic.
i'm surprised it lasted at all with Adam waving his hands around like that
The Force is strong with this one.
Definitely the Wing Gundam effect at work in this model.
I've always loved the X-wings design.. To me it is one of the most iconic and beautiful ship designs ever.. To be able to own one of the original models, that would be awesome..
Yes, it's a cool looking craft, but I have always been skeptical of the "wings". They are squared off, they have no airfoil properties , they do not provides lift. technically, they are not "wings", they are just mounting posts for the weapons.
Star Wars tech really doesn't make any practical sense.
But, oh yeah, the ship looks cool af.
There are two types of people in the world. People who think the X-Wing is the most beautiful ship ever... and people who think TIE fighters are. xD
(Tie Interceptor for me :p )
@@kes-3d I do like both ;) hehehe
@@MrFireSpy As do I. Y-Wing aswell tbh. I love how skeletal it almost looks with all its panelling ripped off.
The TIE Interceptor is my favorite Imperial starfighter design (the Defender strikes me as too fan-fictiony with its overwrought design and ridiculous power creep).
The B-Wing is also a very cool if strange ship with its gyroscopic rotating cockpit, while the A-Wing is like a mini sports car (super fast but just as dangerous to the pilot as its targets).
I love that one of the primary caretakers of this piece clearly understands and appreciates it’s significance.
Probably has nothing to do with the $1M predicted sale price :)
@@Miketz 1mil? That accurate? I would have assumed more.
@@Daltwan_Kenobi predicted price is 500k to a mil. Already one absentee bid for 500k on the site.
@@Daltwan_Kenobi probably would have been more than a million before disney got their hands on the franchise
@@JediSentinal 500k ay, if someone gets that for that price. I personally think that’s a steal for a piece of moving picture history.
Xwings are just cool. When I saw it opening week in '77, I went straight home and got balsa wood from the hobby shop, and started trying to build one from memory..I am still chasing that to this day.
haha very cool. I didn't know how to build with materials when I first saw Star Wars but I did make ships out of plasticine. I got quite good at it but the temptation to play with it always took over and the models would end up getting trashed. But you're spot on that everything we did then had to be from memory. There was no way to go and see the movie again once it had run for a few weeks. Years would pass before you got another movie. There was no Internet go look up the designs. Much like you I'm still chasing the same dream only now I do it with 3D printing / painting.
How many partially completed X-wing replicas are stashed in attics and basements around the world? I started constructing one from sheet polystyrene SO MANY years ago. I got a couple of wings, some engine assemblies and ion cannons completed before abandoning the project. I wanted to go with about an 18" wingspan, but I bit off more than I could chew.
I liked the Imperial Star Destroyers. After driving home from Detroit, I went home and drew top, bottom and side views. I have the EMI kit built and packed away. Yes, I built most of the kits but only the Star Destroyer survives.
I still recal the chill down my spine when we all saw the X-wings opening for the first time, readying for battle and the "aaawww" exclamation followed by cheers and applause and all the kids in the movie theatre jumping in our seats... And when we left after the movie the smile in my late dad´s face "what an awsome movie"... Those guys made a magic that has lived with me since and has passed now to my kids... I have no ways to thank them...
Same: saw it in the theater when I was 9! 🔥
so true! i was 10 years old
When Adam said, "Of course, I want to build one," strikes such a chord with me. It is exactly what I used to say when I would regularly visit the Met. It became a running joke with my friends. I can't remember how long the list of things I was going to build got, but it started with the suit of armor.
Another one for the One Day Build list: "One day, I'll build this!"
I'm constantly adding things to an all ready hundreds long list of props and builds I would work on if I had my own shop.
The Model Kit from Bandai is both nice and cheap FYI, especially the OG series version!
because even Adam doesn't want to drop $500k to $1m on this - it sold for $2+million
Adam, you were giving me heart palpitations talking with such large gestures so close to the model, waving your arms around talking about the groundbreaking aesthetic.
Adam you make me so nervous as you move so quick with your hands around the model! LOL. Great to hear you two talk about this model! So cool!
Agreed! The prop guy is so nervous. Adam needs to keep his distance and slow down.
The whole video I was just waiting for him to snag one of the cannons. 😬
I had the same initial reaction until I realized it wasn't suspended in the air xD
I was thinking the same thing. If it was me waving my arms that thing would have been sent flying and if I was the other gentleman I'd be kind of gently nudging Adam away a bit farther from the podium.
@@BruceMusto Well given his background as a model maker, I'm sure he's learned to be quick and conscious. I mean how else would you get these things built in the time required! So maybe just old habits eh?
"Red Three's" explosion was simply a recycled shot of Red Ten from Red Leader's trench run. For whatever reason, they never filmed this model's destruction and Marcia Lucas just recycled the shot, or perhaps she directed the model shop that she had it covered, as the character of Biggs was sidelined, so the shot was struck from their to-do list. The film's loss is our gain, as we now have this lovely artifact.
Marcia Lucas role in theses films production is quite underrated. She's the reason why the films are so well paced. I think she's personally responsible for as mutch as 40% of the films success. Not many people know she won with Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew the best montage Oscar. We rarely see any documentary about her on RUclips.
And red ten’s close up cockpit explosion shot is not red ten, but another unknown pilot.
I am gonna say it that belongs in the Smithsonian. Because the significance of that prop. It was one of the greatest movies ever made.
Relic is absolutely the right word to use for this. Look at this. Amazing.
I enjoyed how they investigated what model it was. That sort of thing is interesting
A friend of mine in high school, just a couple of years after the movie came out, built his own X-Wing and Tie Fighter from balsa wood. He made a tar paper space background with lights shining through holes in the black and did some amazing photos with them.
Guy built an AT-ACT ruclips.net/video/sE1mr8iCvA8/видео.html
I was a 12 year old kid when I first saw Star Wars and the striking thing to me even at that age was the realism and how beat up and weathered the models were. It was one of the first things that blew me away.
Not many films were made with that mutch of realism back in the days. Maybe space odyssey but it's pretty mutch it. When I saw the first shot of new hope ( it was called just star wars back in the days) my young self was blown away. You had the impression to be there with them in space.
One of my friends works for the film studios in London making the full size versions for the star wars films including one of these and also a full size wooden, glass dome bit from the millennium Falcon. They paid and sent him and some other guys to America to put together the full size x wing outside the cinema for the Premier for one of the star wars films, I think it was rogue one. Basically he does the same as Adam did but on a full size scale. A fascinating and highly skilled job. He's got some pretty interesting photos of projects he's worked on for different movies.
Oh wow this takes me back. I remember as a kid in the 70s seeing these models in the behind the scenes and just dreaming of owning them as the ultimate replica toy to play with! Adams enthusiasm really reflects my own back then.
What a wonderful experience to have. Thank you so much for sharing it with us! I may be 57 now but for a few minutes I was a kid again,
It's not often Adam is lost for words, but this model truly had him in utter awe!
"lost for words" ... dude, it's a 13 minute video. He seemed to find his words just fine!
The way it's loose along long panel lines really enhances the scale distance effect tremendously. The red not lining up, the washes being chaotic - I'd suggest CG designers take note, *perfect* models at a distance gives away scale to my eye. $.10
That was a problem with the CGI in "The Last Starfighter". It was too perfect.
That's why I'm a firm believer in doing practical effects first, (where possible) then use CG, to either lightly fill in, or if there's no reasonable way to do the practical.
Adam explaining stories and waving his hands really fast and so close all around this so well preserved piece of history was hard to watch! The trust this man has in Adam hahah but I would trust a well accomplish model maker too. (;
Ugh, I had those miniature ships that were sold in the 90s. The X-Wing, Tie Fighter with a miniature action figure included and even R2-D2 with the X-Wing. BEST toy I ever had. I remember playing with those ships for hours as a kid. Seeing this model brings back memories to those toys.
It’s funny that this pops up as my wife just handed me a model kit of the X-Wing for my birthday. ❤️
Happy Birthday man, MTFBWY!
Best gift ever! Happy birthday 🥳🎉🎉🎉
Thank you 🥹
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You are so lucky to have such understanding wife. A woman who understand her man. I love my wife but whenever i bought any model kit, I keep it hidden for several months. Suddenly the thing pop up , she would ask if that is a new toy....and I would always say....naaah. i bought it so long ago and i got it cheap.
That 4th blade that's missing in the bottom left engine is exactly the aesthetic Adam and Fon were talking about in another Star Wars prop video. 3 pieces still there, the 4th one is missing. Love it!
"Boilerplate" is a funny name because one of the X-wings LITERALLY had a boiler on the back. It was a cab detail piece from a steam locomotive, the boiler head and firebox door and gauges. Kinda hilarious.
Yep, MPC's 1/25th scale model of the General. And it was set in to the bottom of a tank turret, perhaps a Sherman, given it sits on a Sherman's hull top; creating a relationship is doubly interesting since the locomotive was in Georgia on the Western & Atlantic RR and used by the Confederates and Union General Sherman did the "march to the sea" through Georgia & the W&A began at Atlanta and Sherman's march began ant Atlanta.
I didn't know that thank you for the info
Holy crapalooza….. that’s one of the originals that was used in the movies!? Holy Grail indeed. The X-Wing Fighter is one of my favorite ships of the series. Building a Lego Set of this fighter is one of my Lego building dreams….
Hold my milk aunt beru...this is priceless!
Adam makes me nervous around these delicate props! He gets so excited and starts flailing his arms so close to it. Lol
I love how battlescarred this particular model looks. What a tribute to what was a revolutionary aesthetic for sci fi at the time, as Adam mentions.
I could hardly focus-having worked at ILM, Adam probably knows what he’s doing but his fast hand movements so close to this fragile model were 😱
What i love, is that all of the original Star Wars designs have at least some degree of kit bashing in them. Adam mentioned the tank wheel, and at 0:19 you can also see that one of the panels is part of the engine deck of a Panther tank.
What a wonderful piece of Movie history. My Dad bought me an Xwing fighter that came with 4 "rockets" you were able to launch it into the sky and then the cone in the nose opened and a parachute helped with the landing. That thing was amazing, I was maybe 12-13 when we played with it.
I had that same rocket, sometime in between ep IV and V.
Am I the only one that's nervous with how fast and close Adam's hands are waving around the X-wing? Can you imagine accidentally damaging this?
yep good point the other guy is hands away. Adam seems like he wants to own the piece with his gestures.
Im more concerned with his spitting all over it
No issue, just a one day build is all!
Can you imagine referring to the wingtip mounted equipment as RADAR DISHES??????
This guy has flailed his hands and painted so many iconic objects I wasn’t worried.
This ship is my favorite model/ship EVER.
just love Adams enthusiasm just like a big kid.
What an amazing find. It is really cool to get the combination of the history of this thing from Brandon and the context of its techniques from Adam. It is funny to watch Brandon hold his hands as if to keep himself from accidentally touching the model while Adam talks with his hands and is waving them around the model. I know Adam is careful but I wonder if Brandon feels any anxiety about it.
I wonder where the Millennium Falcon is...i mean from the first movie. Im sure many were made later
My method of painting battle damage is more representative of the real surface, undercoat, silver base coat, then after drying, a layer of water based hair spray, Let dry, then paint topcoat. When dry, spray a fine mist of water, and that will "float" the topcoat allowing you to chip it away, exposing the silver underneath. It's very laborious but gives physical texture to model. i imagine too much work for SFX camera models, but for display pieces and detailed photographic, it's the most "real" effect I've ever achieved.
Incredible find by PropStore.
Interesting reference to Silent Running in terms of weathering/damage in designing models. Didn't expect that one.
The amount of work put into this thing that was meant to be on screen for three seconds in a scene where it explodes is just incredible.
This relic of movie history is so cool. I was born in March ‘75 and remember seeing Star Wars EP IV in the drive-in theater either 78-79 and was just mesmerized.
I swear that Episode IV is FORTY-FIVE (45) years ago and I feel like it was 5 years ago. Damn can’t believe how fast time flies.
The way Adam's waving his arms around makes me anxious
Me too! I was sure that the turrets were just one sweeping gesture away from being snapped off. 😆
davidf2281 I know man I was like please get him away from this model before he destroys it ! Damn the gloves put him in a straight jacket
Well that made me re-think my original X-wing toy. They actually did a great job on the toys back then. Funny how the cannons on the toy use to bend like that also, lol.
Mine bent
The studio models were built to look good on screen, not to look good up close and in person.
@@kevinnelson66 Oh I thought it looked very good. My X-Wing toy looked almost the same as this model. I just thought it was weird the cannons were bent on this one and the toy's cannons bent over time also.
I had a tie fighter from empire strike back. It was really well made too. I think my cousin still have it.
This is the most beautiful thing pop culture and sci-fi ever brought us.
The proverbial "Kid in a Candy Store"!!! LOVE IT!!!😄
I was thinking "bull in a china shop."
Adam nerding out so hard is cathartic, I'd be doing the same thing but with way less knowledge of model building and what not lol.
Thank you guys!! This is a huge treat for me! I love this stuff!
This is so serendipitous. I literally just went to the hobby shop the other day and picked up a model kit for a Resistance X-Wing Fighter from TFA. I had spent some time as a child building models with my grandfather but hadn't done it so many years.
This channel has long reignited my love for making and building, and I was so gosh darn giddy building a simple gunpla X-Wing kit, and I cannot wait to get into bigger kits and learning the painful task of painting and customizing. That was something I never got into as a kid so I'm looking forward to it!
Thank you Adam, and Tested people!
This was awesome. I'd love to pick Adam's brain on painting miniatures. WH40K, DnD, and Battletech miniature painting is a really fun hobby that I've kinda self-taught over the years. I love meeting the pros though and getting good ideas. Seeing stuff like this gives me some really good ideas.
It’s amazing the attention to detail and dedication in every bit of a movie that almost didn’t get finished so many times. They could have simplified so much like many movies that followed suit but they set the bar for more is more.
Absolutely fantastic! I'm pretty sure Indiana Jones would say it belongs in a museum 😁
100% RAD! Dangit, I have to tell my wife to quit cutting up onions because I am not tearing up over a toy...?
It's so cool that Adam was ILM and so can offer insights to Brandon as well as Brandon offering research information. Also Adam's incredible technical information about colour values, detailing, background history and aesthetic.
That's cinema history right there, kiddies, especially the FX dept.
Absolutely stunning. The profile shots, in this video, look like still shots of it flying.
In about 1990 I attended a talk by Grant McCune, the head of the modelshop for ANH. He had an X-Wing made from discarded pyro models. It was awesome to see in person.
He also had parts from Spaceballs, including the hand of the Mega Maid. That was a live cast of the hand of a secretary from the front office. He let us handle that artifact, so I can legitimately claim that I've held the Mega Maid's hand.
I could listen to the stories of the making and the process all day. The little bits about how they came up with reference ideas or that CA glue was a new piece of tech is so cool!
This is amazing!
To see an actual screen used model in this condition is crazy!
I wonder if the blue that was washed with white and the purple could have been vestiges of when it was blue squadron? I don’t know if they painted and filmed X-Wings in blue before changing to red for the blue screen effects… What an awesome find!
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Adam you are so very blessed. I would be beside myself getting that close to history and it isn't lost on you. Thank you for sharing this.
Saw this at Star Wars Celebration this year. So awesome to be that near to such an iconic piece of my childhood and film history.
People forget how iconic star wars universe vehicles are , ucas and his team are not only have a great imagination but creative as FK ,just absolutely love it ,
Amazing. It’s always fascinating to see how rough these look in HD
So true. I recently rewatched Star Trek TNG... and pretty much every model short of the Enterprise looks pretty rough after the recent remastering to 4k... Not throwing any shade on the model makers, they were under deadlines and the models were only ever designed to hold up under standard definition broadcast when most people were watching the show on 24" CRTs. The Romulan Warbird really stands out.. the paint scaling / orange peel is clear as day in certain shots.
As far as this model, its especially rough as it's just a foam shape taken from a mold with paint work and minor greeble detailing. The hero X-Wing models hold up much better.
I love how Brendan (Brandon?) was stiffening up every time Adam gestures toward or puts his hands near the model.
ADAM! take this advice from an aerospace engineer who has worked with spacecraft & aircraft - KEEP YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK! DON'T TOUCH THE HARDWARE!
Wow, it wasn't until they mentioned it that I realised Star Wars was 45 years old. I'm 53 and I remember my dad taking me to see it in '77. No cinema experience since has matched it, still the best of them all.
I always enjoy you looking at artifacts like this and seeing your reaction and your stories.
I want to say this is the X-wing that was depicted on the Star Wars lunchbox that I coveted so much as a kid. How is it that the thing looks like it’s going Mach 5 while sitting still?
The corvette of the galaxy...what an incredible find!
I love how right behind the model they have 3 of the iconic Star Trek uniforms (TNG and DS9), one being a Borg costume.
Incredible. I have so much appreciation for the level of detail and craftsmanship that went into the practical effects of the original trilogy. Love seeing these two geek out over such a special piece!
I can't get over how disposable treasure really was back then. Made to be blown up in a movie that was barely even made but still around 50 years later.
Please! You’re aging me! It wasn’t THAT long ago. You all have been lied to and told it came out in the 70s. You all are about 10 years off. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 😂
Great video and great stories and reminiscing of how they got inspiration from cars and stuff like that.
The only complaint I have, and this is just a lack of aircraft knowledge on Adams part, is that B-52's don't have any ball turrets. Must have been a B-17 or B-24. 😊
Yeah, that was a groan.
Such incredible detail that gets just screen time of seconds or even gets destroyed. Amazing.
Absolutely loved Adam's obvious excitement at seeing such an iconic model up close and completely nerding out while describing the techniques used :)
If I saw this as a 5 year old in 1980, I would have peed myself. I was as interested in behind the scenes photos as the film itself. My love for the art of making movies like Star Wars is still a big part of me:) That's why it is so much fun for me to watch Adam Savage experiencing these things:)
Yep, my favorite SW card series was orange. Had a few model shots.
I don't stress when Adam is excited around the model, he's a professional and knows how fragile these things are. Though it always bothers me when wearing the white gloves, he'll touch his face or cross his arms thus leaving skin oil on the outside of the glove before he points to the model yet again. Come on Adam!
the attention to detail is incredible for a model that was built to be blown up.
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Beautiful! And yes Adam you definitely need to do an X-Wing One Day build!
Make sure to make those 4 RADAR DISHES larger.
Rest in peace Colin Cantwell, thank you for your contribution to humanity.
I've loved this series at Prop Store. Adam's enthusiasm for model-making really shines through.
More proof that making star wars and the skill and effort by so many is more proof that STAR WARS is the greatest movies of all time
I love the fact that Star Wars is older than Crazy Glue.
From a commercial standpoint, Crazy Glue (and CA based adhesives in general) have been marketed since the late 1950s and were in wide distribution by the early 1970s... But I'm guessing that perhaps most of that was industrial use and it wasn't a widely used / known solution in the modeling hobby??
As soon as I saw the blast mark on the nose I knew it spent time as Red Leader. His was the only X-wing that had that feature.
I believe the Red Two and Red Three Hero models still exist, and the wings of Red Five.
I could watch these Prop Store videos all day. Love it when you guys vist them, and Brandon is a class act, always a pleasure.
Wow, that is such a cool find. So impressed it has held up so well too for being made from that material... Always fun to see actual movie props like this
WOW I thought there was none left amazing.
Makes you think what else is out there in private collections.
Somehow it just looks so much more "real" than any scanned and cgi reproduced model or even a modern replica. Even just sitting in a prop room while a youtube camera holder pans over it.
Practical effects, when done well, will always be better. The mind knows what's real and what isn't, even if it's unconsciously, there's always a tell. It's much more satisfying seeing an in-camera effect, especially a ship.
Also, a model is a real thing. It’s a miniature representation of something. The model gives the look of realism. Behind the camera, done right, it will look real. For instance there’s a RUclips kid on the real world that makes videos of him taking pictures of diecast cars with real backgrounds. Usually the diorama the kid builds with the car blends in with the surroundings. If you get a chance check those pictures out it’s amazing how real these diecast cars look with the real background.
This type of comment is just so annoying and inflammatory, you have no idea.
I was there to see and photograph this majestic piece of most of our youth .
There are so many amazing things in the background I can't even pay attention to this awesome find! Overload in the best way!
I am both happy for you to see this and share it with us and jealous that I am not seeing it in person.
I have never wanted a movie prop in my life...but this one got me drooling, too.
Really? I’ve gotta a few I want. Especially that ball flashlight in the Dark series.
Current bid is at $500,000...
I made a resin kit of the studio scale X-Wing that I used to sell for $400.
Wow, amazing find. Auction is set for June 21st, current bid is 500k, I think this may end up selling for 1.5-2 million.
2.375 million in the end... wow.
Love the way Adam swings his arms and hands around, close to the model. So Exciting!!
I had always though that 40 -year-old plastic would warp, turn brittle and fall apart. This gives me hope for the lifespan of some of my older models.
They’re foam?
Why would you think that? The world has a problem with too much plastic waste that can sit around a landfill or in the ocean for decades and never disintegrate or decompose. Yet here you are assuming that a plastic model kept in a controlled environment would warp, turn brittle, and fall apart.
@@MrRobarino And yet it does happen. Though it is not disentigrating, in the closet in the other room is a 1980s unbuilt Monogram 1/72 scale Space Shuttle with tank and boosters where the kept in a box in a closet in a climate controlled home white plastic has noticeably yellowed.
And you will find plastics manufacturers talking about the inherent brittleness of styrene, aka polystyrene, for instance: "According to The Essential Chemical Industry, a non-profit website run by The University of York, it's possible to take regular old brittle polystyrene, the same stuff used for CD cases, and turn it into" ...; and, "What Are The Different Types of Polystyrene? Three major types of polystyrene include polystyrene foam, regular polystyrene plastic, and polystyrene film. Amongst the different types of foam are expanded polystyrene (EPS) and extruded polystyrene (XPS). EPS includes the most well-known and common types of polystyrene to include styrofoam and packing peanuts. XPS is a higher density foam typically used in applications like architectural building models. Some types of polystyrene plastic are copolymers. Oftentimes homopolymer PS is fairly brittle and can be made more impact resistant if combined with other materials (known in this form as the copolymer High Impact Polystyrene, or HIPS). Polystyrene film can also be vacuum formed and used in packaging applications. Films can be stretched into oriented polystyrene (OPS) that is cheaper to produce (albeit more brittle) than alternatives like PP."
What a wonderful artefact!
When I was in school for 3D animation back in 2001 we had to model an XWing and all we had for reference was like 9 photos of this model found on the internet. That and some plastic model kits the school bought for us to use (I got to build one of them!). I took it upon myself to grab some screen shots from the movies.
I remember my Dad took me to see Star Wars when it hit the theaters. I was blown away!
That was made more like 46 years ago but at this point who's counting? I still have my hand out from when I saw the original Star Wars in the theater.
Thank you for sharing this moment!! I’m excited just watching you get excited over this piece. I couldn’t take my eyes off of it! My inner Jedi, did a backflip when I first saw your thumbnail!
Really enjoy just knowing that these kind of things are being stored and cared for instead of being destroyed. There is just something physical models will always have over CGI that won't be out done anytime soon.