[meteorite-list] Since Scale Cubes are a topic today

From: David & Kitt Deyarmin <bobadebt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:19:41 -0500
Message-ID: <00bc01c82255$75c21f80$e3f33842_at_David>

I'm going to have to disagree with you.

Another hobby I have is making replicas of props from various science
fiction movies

I have used photos to reverse engineer parts and have done so with amazing
accuracy

A perfect example is an MG-81 Flash Hider/ Booster that was use on Han
Solo's "Blaster" from Star Wars.

This part went unidentified for 26 years but I and a small group of
hobbyists created and manufactured replica of this part from the various
available photos.

About 3 years ago, it was finally identified and a mint specimen was found
and borrowed, they have a value of about $3000 so we were lucky the guy let
use it.

To even my own surprise my Flash Hider was surprisingly accurate to the real
thing.

Here is a picture, the real prop is on top and my replica is on the bottom

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p298/BobaDebt/Flashhiders.jpg

Bear in mind that this is just one image of a single prop, they used a
variety of props and each had variances in the parts. For instance in the
above picture the holes are look smaller but there are other pictures that
they look bigger.

However, when I compared my replica to a real MG-81 Flash Hider most of my
measurements were off by less then .005" of an inch which is pretty good.



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Hi, All

Measurement from a photo with a scalecube in it is impossible except in the
case of a very elaborate photo setup designed to make such measurements
possible and even then, the precision is low. aying

Sterling K. Webb


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Received on Thu 08 Nov 2007 05:19:41 PM PST