Wednesday 16 September 2020

THAT'S THE LAST TIME I FLY LUCAS AIR !

 The other day I was looking for an interesting A-Wing pilot and happened to find a Mon Calamari pilot nicknamed Si-Mon.

It turns out it was one of a group of pilots that were filmed for Return of the Jedi, but never used, you can see for yourself here youtube the nickname came from the actors name being Simon, which I thought was cool, even Palitoy must have liked it as they released a figure for it.

So based off the pictures I set about building one for myself, I actually remembered to photograph the model in green form for a change before covering it in paint.



I choose to keep the colours as close as I could to the film, with using the Palitoy version to cover the parts I couldn't see in the screen shots.




Now you may be wondering why I wanted to have an A-Wing pilot, I managed to find out that my wife is getting me the ship for my birthday, as she missed getting me the DS9 model, so disappointing in one respect but very cool  in another, and the new present will actually be useful gaming wise as well.

That's all for this post, so until next time stay safe and have fun ! 

17 comments:

  1. Great bit of sculpting there Dave, I was sooo temptged to say that it looks just like Simon (Moore) too, but then I realised that's exactly what you wanted me to say by posting this and discovered to my horror...."It's a trap!!"

    :)

    Cheers Roger.

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    1. Thank you Roger, you got to be careful of those obvious traps ! LOL

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  2. Wow Dave that's excellent mate well done, I no idea about sculpting so tell me if you can how many hours work goes into a model like that ?

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    1. Thank you Frank, this one was about 8 hours of sculpt time, but a lot of time drying inbetween, I started this one Sunday night, and finished sculpting yesterday evening then painted today, so 48 hours on the sculpting with drying times. Hope this helps but happy to answer any more questions

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    2. Thanks for answering the question Dave, I've no more for now :)

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    3. No problem mate, happy to answer questions anytime

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  3. My all time fav Star Wars ship!

    Lovely Mon Cal too mate! Not a big fan of the pistol though, have to be honest.

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    1. Thank you Dai, it is a great looking ship, would like to get each Rebel ship eventually if I can find them in a good scale, and reasonably priced. Just need to find a Y-Wing and B-Wing.
      No worries on the blaster, should have looked for a more interesting one, this was what I found for pilots.

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  4. Lots of detail in your sculpt, it must be a very useful skill to be able to make the specific figure in the specific pose that you require.

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    1. Thank you John, it certainly helps on this project, as there's so many models not available !

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  5. The unused film clip - what a great fin and an excellent idea for a unique figure. Well done with the sculpting (very jealous of your skills) and having the toy figure as a guide your paint job is spot-on!

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    1. Thank you Joe, apparently it was on the Blu Ray version ( haven't upgraded to this) so being able to find it on YouTube was useful. Palitoy are very helpful with all the figures they produce and have done a lot of the research for me. Happy to show how to do it if people are interested.

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  6. Love eveything about this! Can't wait to see him on adventures.

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    1. Thank you, was a bit of a whim, but thought it would be a cool addition.

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  7. Lovely looking scratch built pilot!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thank you Iain, was happy with how he turned out, except the pistol, maybe a point to revisit at some point

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