Blood for the Baron!

Dave Tree wrote:

Dave Tree wrote:

Thundershot wrote:the Cosmic Cruiser on the card back photo looks to have parts off the SW Snow Speeder used for the jets..or am I just mad?

That one is a prototype too, the production version of the Crusier has 3 engines in a triangle, whereas that has two engines at the top. As for the snowspeeder, it looks like it's been based around the engine part, but it's not the actual part itself used.

I have come across a similar piece before with the Millennium Falcon radar dish. It was vaccum cast from the piece itself, which is injection moulded. This process produces a lower quality product, not as detailed, so begs the question as to why they would have vac formed such a piece as injection moulding gives a much stronger and beeter quality piece, unless it was used in a mock up, display or to use as base for another piece, like the Cruiser engine.

I'll sort out an image to show. It's worth mentioning this was in amoungst the Boffin - but does not 100% that this was intended for Action Force.

Dave.

sorry this has taken a while to sort out, but the office machine has all the pics and usually log on to the forum from home, but here we are:





From the looks of the part, it looks like it could have been for some kind of hatch maybe? There are hinges with arrows drawn on, which might indicate where this piece might have connected with another piece?
Either way, it's pretty cool, and may have been used for a mock up or formed the basis of something else.

Dave.