Christopher Callaghan's Forced Perspective TOS Viper Diorama

I've been meaning to post this as Chris was kind enough to provide me with pictures and a very nice write up on how he did it quite a while back, but I was so engrossed with my Magnum PI marathon my blog was neglected for a while. Its kind of hard not to watch these old episodes, and re-discovering why I loved the series so much. Before I knew it, just like when you're gone on holidays for too long, topics started to pile up. I seriously need to get my butt back in front of the PC so I can clear up my backlog of reference materials I had scheduled for myself here.

Anyways, here's a radical way to display your diorama, an illusion using false perspective. Its not an easy thing to do cause any miscalculation is scale and presentation and your diorama instantly looks like its something out of a B grade movie. But when done well just like when I saw Chris's work at a glance, I thought he created a diorama that was 4-6 foot long. I was about to ask him why he hadn't fill up the empty space with more Vipers or figures until I saw his whole diorama was actually on a "forced perspective".

Part 16 - ISD Close up of Bridge Tower Complex

Here's a huge studio model build up of the ISD's Bridge Tower used for close up shots. The bridge design bear only a slight resemblance to that of the ISD Avenger, but has way too many variance to be the Avenger. I suspect this is the Bridge Tower for the Superstar Destroyer Executor, but of course that's just my assumption.

You can view the amount of details incorporated into this studio scale mock up and see if you can emulate anything like this on your own build up. These images were taken from modelermagic.com and have been scaled back. Do visit that site for bigger images.

Part 15 - ISD Devastator Studio Reference Upper Hull

Here are images of the studio model used for the Star Destroyer Devastator seen in Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back. These images were obtained from Forbidden Plastic when they were given permission by LucasFilm to take photgraphs of the Devastator for their reference to develop and sell plastic kits of the Star Destroyer. The images subsequently made their way to modelermagic.com and now they're here to be used for reference to your own build up.

As there are too many images to fit into one blog post, I have decided to segregate them according to their locations to make it easier to locate areas you want to make reference to. This post will touch on the Upper Hull Details of the ISD Devastator

Part 14 - ISD Devastator Studio Reference Sides

Here are images of the studio model used for the Star Destroyer Devastator seen in Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back. These images were obtained from Forbidden Plastic when they were given permission by LucasFilm to take photgraphs of the Devastator for their reference to develop and sell plastic kits of the Star Destroyer. The images subsequently made their way to modelermagic.com and now they're here to be used for reference to your own build up.

As there are too many images to fit into one blog post, I have decided to segregate them according to their locations to make it easier to locate areas you want to make reference to. This post will touch on the Side Panel Details of the ISD Devastator

Part 13 - ISD Devastator Studio Reference Lower Hull

Here are images of the studio model used for the Star Destroyer Devastator seen in Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back. These images were obtained from Forbidden Plastic when they were given permission by LucasFilm to take photgraphs of the Devastator for their reference to develop and sell plastic kits of the Star Destroyer. The images subsequently made their way to modelermagic.com and now they're here to be used for reference to your own build up.

As there are too many images to fit into one blog post, I have decided to segregate them according to their locations to make it easier to locate areas you want to make reference to. This post will touch on the Lower Hull and Hangar Bay area of the ISD Devastator

Part 12 - ISD Devastator Studio Reference Engines

Here are images of the studio model used for the Star Destroyer Devastator seen in Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back. These images were obtained from Forbidden Plastic when they were given permission by LucasFilm to take photgraphs of the Devastator for their reference to develop and sell plastic kits of the Star Destroyer. The images subsequently made their way to modelermagic.com and now they're here to be used for reference to your own build up.

As there are too many images to fit into one blog post, I have decided to segregate them according to their locations to make it easier to locate areas you want to make reference to. This post will touch on the Engine area of the ISD Devastator

Part 11 - ISD Devastator Studio Reference Bridge

Here are images of the studio model used for the Star Destroyer Devastator seen in Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back. These images were obtained from Forbidden Plastic when they were given permission by LucasFilm to take photgraphs of the Devastator for their reference to develop and sell plastic kits of the Star Destroyer. The images subsequently made their way to modelermagic.com and now they're here to be used for reference to your own build up.

As there are too many images to fit into one blog post, I have decided to segregate them according to their locations to make it easier to locate areas you want to make reference to. This post will touch on the Bridge Tower of the ISD Devastator

Part 10 - ISD Avenger Studio Reference Upper Hull

Here are images of the studio model used for the Star Destroyer Avenger first seen in Star Wars : A New Hope. These images were obtained from modelermagic.com (images are scaled back) as well as other sources to be used for reference to your own build up.

As there are too many images to fit into one blog post, I have decided to segregate them according to their locations to make it easier to locate areas you want to make reference to. This post will touch on the Upper Hull Details of the ISD Avenger

Part 9 - ISD Avenger Studio Reference Sides

Here are images of the studio model used for the Star Destroyer Avenger first seen in Star Wars : A New Hope. These images were obtained from modelermagic.com (images are scaled back) as well as other sources to be used for reference to your own build up.

As there are too many images to fit into one blog post, I have decided to segregate them according to their locations to make it easier to locate areas you want to make reference to. This post will touch on the Side Panel Details of the ISD Avenger

Part 8 - ISD Avenger Studio Reference Lower Hull / Hangar Bay

Here are images of the studio model used for the Star Destroyer Avenger first seen in Star Wars : A New Hope. These images were obtained from modelermagic.com (images are scaled back) as well as other sources to be used for reference to your own build up.

As there are too many images to fit into one blog post, I have decided to segregate them according to their locations to make it easier to locate areas you want to make reference to. This post will touch on the Lower Hull/Hangar Bay of the ISD Avenger