Postby AndyThomas » Thu Oct 10, 2002 2:56 pm
I think the colour scheme of the fighter is a mix - bluey-green. I imagine that for the distance shots, or ones where they needed to get several in, they used smaller models and probably wouldn't have been able to use the same painting style. It's not obvious from that particular graphic, but looking at the shadows on the original (it was a photo against a backdrop) those 4 fighters that look like they're way off to the left of the battlecruiser are actually right on top of it - they're just very very small models. It's a clever piece of camera trickery. Don't forget, the video footage we have is quite old, and the lighting will have varied a lot. It's quite interesting to see how the different models came out when people tried recreating them for Genesis...Laser colour wise, the EDF fighters seem to fire red on at least one occasion. The Ptero fighters do, as you rightly say, appear to have some sort of torpedo style mounting beneath their primary hull. Might be a fuel tank, might be a missile. Otherwise, yes, unguided rockets seems reasonable based on what they shoot. Imperial fighters also seem to shoot those. I imagine the "real world" explanation is that the models are firing caps (there's quite a lot of smoke generally) and the laser effects were added in later. Let's see if some of these shots from my episode guide will help with visualising stuff:Hmm. Yes, the fighters don't always fire from those pods either with the laser effects over them - see how it looks like they're firing from the tip of their nose?Hmm. I could do with brightening some of the images that come off my captured sources. They're good quality but always seem to come out a little dark...
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