Sorry for the late posting, Core-Techs. It’s been a real busy week getting ready for Comic-Con, but I got a commitment to you folks to keep the pretties coming, and after all it’s still Wednesday here in California, so I’m technically on time. And on time with Serenity’s shuttles – which, I hope you’ll agree, are worth the wait.
A couple of things to note about the shuttle master cast pictured here. Once again, we must pay homage to the brilliance and nit-picky detail work of our sculptor. Despite showing *lots* of detail, including door frames, piping and even the exhaust manifold, this little bugger’s is just 2.5 inches long. Did I mention our sculptor is only five inches tall himself? Explains a lot, doesn’t it?
Another thing to note is that the wings are cast separately. There’s two reasons for this: capture a lot of detail and make it possible to “pose” the shuttles. We’re thinking ahead to how we’ll stage Serenity when she’s finished, and we’re thinking it would be just shiny to have one shuttle flying off, maybe to a client rendezvous?
Each shuttle is comprised of four pieces – top, bottom (engine) and two wings.
Note the detailing on the wings and sides of the shuttle. You can even see the pipes behind the “head”.
Let’s see, at 2.5 inches long that would make our replica Inara just, um, ah, gorramit! Just how tall is a 1/180 scale companion?
Super shiny guys! Question; is that a nav light lens on the wing?
If Inara were that small, how would you get the luxurious interior scaled down?!
The bit of blue hue in the pics of the wings: Looks to be the hinge points for the wings to fold out. Guess there is no prize for making the machaincs workout, except that everything works, right?
But it is a very astute question, how do you light the wing tip marker lights ( red/green nav lights )?
I would think a fire light colored mini bulb and a fiberoptic light pipe thru thru wing to tie the single led (inside the cabin (battery sold seperately of course). that would light the tissue paper drapery nicely as well as the nav lights.
Let’s hope my math is right here, or I’m going to look like a moron.
Assuming that Inara is 5 and a half feet tall, she would have to be .37 inches.
If IMDB’s data is accurate, a 1/180th scale Inara would be 9.5mm tall, or 0.375 inches.
Sweet!!