Derwent parts in Star Wars

Christ, virgins of the world unite. You lot need to get out more.

This is the thread on Key that makes you question your fellow forumites? :highly_amused:

Off to see the new film tonight, but already spotted some more Aircraft parts in the trailer. Kylo Ren has an orange push button in one shot that looks very familiar!

Never new that about the Margolin. I had one. It’s called a Vostok over here 🙂

I don’t – where is it?

Edit – that was a mis-read. I read ‘MiG-15’..

Yes, I have seen a LOT of aircraft parts in Sci-fi movies.

And even a few non-sci-fi

(and yes, I know about the MG-15 in SW #4)

Also these
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=222745807237
This one looks a bit crappy, I have a couple of better ones. It is a nukes controller from the Tornado GR1(not Buccaneer) with the front panel put on backwards and painted silver. You can see the two terminals for the panel light.

An expert will be along in a minute with the exact film reference.

Earlier mention of Hanningfields, they cleared a lot of the set from the Phantom Menace, I saw the seats there in the opening sequence on the flight deck of the space ship (Radiant 7) I think, those were B52 sets, the top part cut off and lots of random stuff on the back, in the film they look good, in the flesh they looked crappy, I did buy one of the unused seats, I think they were the downwards firing ones, don’t have it any more, they were rough. I still have some stuff that I retrieved, Battle Droid bits, piece of set, which have been covetously fondled by the odd Star Wars nerd over the years

I retrieved two Tornado control columns from a heavy crudely made seat, one each side, the label said Troy Campers seat, no idea if it was used, I couldn’t be bothered to watch the film again as I found it like the new ones just boring, will try and remember what else I saw, there was more but my memory can be a bit random unsurprisingly. I remember a big skip of unused materials which just looked like garbage, lawn mower casings, all sorts but it’s clever what they do with it

Princess Leia’s blaster is not a Luger. It is a Russian Margolin MTS .22 calibre target pistol.

Some of the people i know in that hobby are far from geeks. A few i know are soldiers and police officers infact. Oh and i have three Sons myself, the first one was born when i was 19 years old.

I know/knew plenty of people in the armed forces who are/were mega-nerds/geeks and had children too. The point is to not take it as a negative term, or pigeon hole people who might fit into the category.

And maintain a good sense of not taking things too seriously. Apart from good grammar. Or at least thats what i should of said (the last bit was irony by the way – no prizes for anyone who spots at least three grammatical errors).

Most scifi film/ TV series has a sonobuoy container or two in it.

Christ, virgins of the world unite. You lot need to get out more.

LOL married with 3 girls..The term you looking for is Supernerds 😉

I firmly believe that if someone can find some interest in a subject then it has demonstrable value, no matter how bizarre, off beat or baffling I may find that interest.

Hmmm, you could say that about any hobby really. Making something accurate out of rare hard to find parts is more of an art than geeky. I find the people that stereotype others like that are just sheep, saying something that someone else has said and don’t have much imagination or mind of their own.
Some of the people i know in that hobby are far from geeks. A few i know are soldiers and police officers infact. Oh and i have three Sons myself, the first one was born when i was 19 years old.

Keith

The Millennium Falcon is in the original Blade Runner as a building!

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/little-known-sci-fi-fact-millennium-falcon-appeared-blade-runner

The lights in the bar where they recruit Hans Solo are combustion chambers.

Christ, virgins of the world unite. You lot need to get out more.

The lightsaber emitter on the Obi Wan saber is the ballance pipe from the Derwent engine, then next in line (working your way from front to back) its the WW1 British rifle grenade, then its a flash clamp from a graflex camera flash with a part of an old calculator attached (the clear bubbles), then its an ASM2 booster from a 303 MKII Browning machine gun, then its an old Armitage Shanks handwheel off a water tap.

I used to collect these items and still have them.

Keith

The Millenium falcon was designed on a B29 cockpit.

One of the spaceships on Star Wars has a Vickers Viscount steering yoke

Millennium Falcon had two..Mounted back to front…Also had a Martin Baker ejection seat in it..
Some guys are building a full size Spaceship….
https://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=147319&

The crew entry ladders for the fighters were/are F-4 Phantom rear cockpit entry steps.

Presumably there was a yard, or yards, full of them at one time.

Anon.

You mean they are not real spaceships ?