Frankly, that looks like a flat surface tilted at an angle and painted to look like it has a curvature.They must've built a huge mock-up for this scene as well:
The spacing of the letters seems to be off.
D or E?
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Generations (registry NOT centered...note the eight lifeboats beneath the registry):
Generations (the registry appears centered here...note those eight lifeboats are gone now):
It appears they used two different models for this scene...
AFIK they only used one model. The last "establishing image" of the crashed ship was likely a matte painting.
Alas, no.
I think the crash saucer was 10 feet. The forward edge model might've been 18 feet wide.If that saucer is 18 feet wide, then those people are giants.Behold:
(And no, that's not me.)
I was mistaken - it's actually 12 feet. I knew something about that didn't seem right.
You may be right about the saucer-edge model but I can't find anything to confirm it.Here's a screencap of it from this site (there are a few others on the page):
And here are two images from there of the six-footer being prepped for shooting:
They must've built a huge mock-up for this scene as well:
The spacing of the letters seems to be off.
I know that the 'section' itself is about a four-foot tall model. Someone bought it at the auction. There's an image of it floating around the web. I'm betting the hull is just a fake, a tilted flat plane surface.
Generations (registry NOT centered...note the eight lifeboats beneath the registry):
Generations (the registry appears centered here...note those eight lifeboats are gone now):
It appears they used two different models for this scene...
AFIK they only used one model. The last "establishing image" of the crashed ship was likely a matte painting.
Perhaps. I believe it is a static image that is just slightly panned. (It's been a while since I watched.) Either way, they might have used a photo to 'paint' the rest in.
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