[MOC] My Tantiv IV corridor

[jelockwood]

As I approach a slightly early retirement, I have been buying Lego Star Wars UCS sets to later build, and started working on some MOCs/Dioramas.

I have deliberately not worked on these MOCs as fast as I could for several reasons, other time commitments including work, to give time to refine the designs, to lengthen the enjoyment period, and to spread out the costs. However I have now completed my first significant project as below.

The inspiration was originally a printed canvas artwork I also purchased for my Lego man cave. However other inspirations were the photo from the Star Wars Episode IV film scene, what I believe to not be another photo but an artwork with actors, smoke and debris removed, and of course various other peoples MOCs.

Whilst I did review various existing Tantiv corridor MOCs my focus was on achieving maximum accuracy compared to the the film set and not 'playability'.

I did make some recent changes to the pillars based on the relatively recently released official Lego 75387 Tantiv IV Corridor set.

Whilst I have used a lot of SNOT the only potential 'cheat' I have used is to fold up a piece of white paper and squeeze it between the two vertical red tiles above the door to give the impression they are separated as it was not possible to do this with tiles and have the right spacing. Unlike most/all other Tantiv corridor MOCs I have used translucent/pearl Lego 1x6x5 panels part number 35286 as part of the ceiling, I have also used genuine Lego slope bricks part number 60186 to create the grills in the pillars but via SNOT I have been able to use them upside down since there is no inverted version of this brick.

I have also bought genuine Lego minifigures of Darth Vader, Storm Troopers and Rebel Fleet Troopers. (Not shown.)

Picture 1 = canvas artwork

Picture 2 = film photo

Picture 3 = cleaned up artwork rendition of picture 2

Picture 4 = my completed MOC

 

[MKJoshA]

That's a really cool MOC. However, your pictures aren't coming through nicely. Could you use Bricksafe.com or Flickr to host them? Those URLs transfer over nicely here.

[Max_Lego]

This looks very beautiful! Though IMHO it looks too large for minifigures. Nice job overall! 

[jelockwood]

Just now, Max_Lego said:

This looks very beautiful! Though IMHO it looks too large for minifigures. Nice job overall! 

It is I believe indeed bigger than other Tantiv MOCs especially in length. Excluding the ceiling, it is 13 bricks tall. (The ceiling is a single brick thick.)

This was necessary in order to fit the two arches top and bottom, the two wall containers and the SNOT solution I used which was as thin as possible being a single brick in height or three plates. The door(s) used however are the same height as other MOCs and therefore overall I feel the extra size is minimal. Also if you compare the image of my MOC with Picture 3 it is an excellent match in proportions. I might have been able to make it slightly less tall but then I would not have been able to fit the red 'lights' above the door which was the main dictating requirement for height - indeed it caused me to need to add an additional 1 brick in overall height, it also would not have had the right proportions otherwise.

If you download pictures 3 and 4 and flip between them quickly you can get a better idea of how closely my MOC matches the film set image.

My next project is Docking Bay 94 and a significant portion of Mos Eisley. This also is larger than other peoples MOCs and again I am finding this necessary to produce a more realistic result but again it seems to work well even for minifigures. (It will eventually have a lot of minifigures as it will include many sub-scenes from Episode IV.)

My aim with this next project will be to produce photos of sections of my MOC arranged to replicate stills from the film so that again they look as similar as possible. This project apart from being much bigger is proving a lot more difficult in that even the film sets are not consistent, for example it is well known that the Docking Bay film set was not actually constructed as a complete circle due to inadequate space on the Elstree studios set. Even so called official sources like an official illustrated guide shows an artists image with one of the staircases angling in the opposite direction to what is in the film. This is the staircase going up from the base of the Docking Bay up to the surface where the entrance from the street is. As the film cuts between positions as Luke and Obi-wan walk towards the Docking bay you also do not get a picture of all of the streets and I will therefore have to fill in gaps by making invented connections. Not to mention Lego itself hugely limits things. Lego prefers 90˚ angles but one significant street junction just outside the entrance to docking bay is more like 135˚

[Max_Lego]

Good luck on your future projects!