Gentle Giant 12" Vintage Boba Fett

[Remco Monster]

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[vulcan2074]

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Ha Ha Ha Ha, thats Funny. You got some serious skills with a camera.
Sammy

[Jason73]

Quick shot of my Fett I took tonight.

Great photo.

[TEXASFETT]

I love my Fett its awesome!!!! Im happy to get one and would like to get a rocket firing version from Rob.

[rche]

that is very interesting that they had to fudge around. I wonder if the actual measurements looked whack when they were blown up directly and GG had to fudge a bit to get it to 'feel' right.

I love the blow up pic. Keep us informed on the 'special' project.

Well ironically they just made the first small head Boba Fett version. I was going over the measurements for the ... special project I have:

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Tothiro/Things/fettmod_001.jpg

and I discovered the measurements are all seriously wackadoo.

(If this is lame just skip, but the OCD mechanical engineer trapped inside me found this interesting)

The theoretical conversion rate should be 12:3.75 (inches), or 3.2:1.
The only piece measured that is a true scale reproduction is the missile top at 3.2:1 scale width (though 24MM short because of the cut-off inside). The head is too small (3.07:1 scale) and the rocket housing is too big (3.625:1 scale) - I'm sure partly to accommodate the 4.5MM rocket housing wall width, but even so there's 4MM wiggle room for the rocket, which is a 25% increase in flop space over the original.
If I used that scaling for the J-slot conversion the rocket would never fly straight... I'll have to make a new one.

Weird that the head is so small though. It's interesting to me how much digital tweaking went on with these to design them like nothing had been done.