Aahhhh........ What?????
Truly bizarre comment to make if you don't give a sh#t/support the project.
Move along. Move along.
I am sorry, but I am not moving along. I do care about this beautiful project, and that is precisely why I am keeping tabs on it and why I took the time and pain to write my post. Also because of ScratchBuilder's attention to detail and penchant for quality above everything else.
BTW, if my opinion drives you so wild, you'd better see a doctor. This is a hobby forum, not World War 3. People are free to have opinions and expose arguments to underpin them. You can share those opinions or not, no biggie, but there is definitely no need to insult or show contempt for anybody just because you don't share their opinions. You expose yourself to be insulted back, and be shown contempt too (not by me, of course; I am tired of, and way above that, unlike Hoody999).
Didn’t think twice when I was a kid (which now explains the popularity of other SW films that adult man-children such as myself hate — lol) but as an adult, I just looked at that primitive looking technology as the aftermath of a brutal and protracted galaxy-wide conflict preceding the time period the OT is set within.
It’s still crazy high-technology by our mundane real-world standards, but in-universe it’s people making do after catastrophic war, general economic collapse and a subsequent dictatorship.
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Now, this is more civilized.
Yeap, there are great designs in SW, like the Falcon, that are really hard to swallow. You know, a vehicle that must endure laser blasts so violent that, even partially deflected can alter abruptly its course, should not fly around with important pipes and parts spread all over its shell, even if they look "interesting". They must be protected under the shell. See real airplanes. Everything is concealed. Aerodynamics, stealth, safety... lots of reasons why.
Other designs are actually great, like the probe droid which almost makes 100% sense. Also the landspeeder.
But there are other designs that are too non-sensical, ugly, and overly impractical, and the sume of these features touches on the ridiculous. To me, that is the case of IG-88... and this dashboard.
This dashboard is too non-sensical, with all those IC sockets just glued everywhere, as if they were "something". It is too obvious, no depth, no layering. And those tiny tan capacitors....... come on...... It was a quick job for something that was not supposed to draw too much attention, 40 years ago. Yet, the landspeeder is a beautiful design that deserves a nice job also on its dashboard, but that clearly didn't get.
My 2 cents anyway.
Screen accuracy rules! LOL
Assuming Luke is a dirtbag farmboy souping up his speeder with scavenged and aftermarket parts in his spare time, the ‘dash’ can be explained as very ugly but functional switches for some non-factory ‘special modifications ‘. Problem solved.
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Yeah, what I like about a lot of SW prop and set dressing (buttons, boards, sliders) is the usage of the first generation plastic buttons and computer-esque detailing that were all-new in the decade before SW was produced. These replaced the bulkier bakelite switches and knobs of the 40s/50s/60s - some of it coming out of the space race - and gives SW a cool 1970s sci-fi vibe.
If this dashboard was a modded one, there would be some underlying structure to it, and some layering (original stuff, modded stuff on top). The resut: depth and realism. Those too-earthling-looking IC sockets and electronic parts, those metal rods that are not levers nor sliders nor anything you can adjust, those dial wheels that are just there... At least, in the Falcon's cockpit there is some structure to the control pannels. They look like something workable. I can't see that on this dashboard.
...you surely can’t be serious. That kind of “nonsense” design is the backbone of Star Wars!
That's right, and sheer beauty can cover for nonsensicalness. AT-AT walkers, AT-ST walkers... OMGs... I am fully onboard and I embrace non-sense in exchange for kicks, but my suspension of nonsense disbelief has a quality threshold, and I don't think a lot of care went into this dashboard. That's it.
And yes. I am dead serious on this.
I am sure a complex, intriguing, almost real-looking, nonsensical, starwarsy dashboard could be done for this beautiful speeder, that would enhance even further its classical beauty. Granted, accuracy rules, but you guys have been painstakingly accurate until now. You deserve a final artistical licence. Your chance to make this speeder yours, and even more unique, by improving something that might use some improvements.
Again, my 2 cents anyways.
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