I
was flipping through a book on famous movie sets the other day and came
across a section on the Tunisian film location for Luke Skywalker's
home on Tatooine. I immediately felt nostalgic on seeing the iconic
domed habitat, the moisture vapourators and Luke's battered landspeeder.
So I thought I'd create a small vignette depicting the home of Uncle
Owen and Aunt Beru, seen during quieter times, before galactic events
changed everything.
I
found these models as 3D files on Thingiverse and adapted them to my
purposes. They were originally much larger designs, but I wanted
something compact, so I scaled them down to something approximating a
10mm scale.
Luke's landspeeder has been fiddled with a bit to make it thinner, elongated and somewhat stylized. I tried to keep to the salmon coloured paint scheme seen in the film.
A few have asked why I didn't put in Luke or perhaps 3PO and R2D2. To be honest I've always liked set-piece scenes where the
characters are not seen. Sometimes the absence of things says more than
having them there. It gives the impression that something is happening
out of sight, and so your mind naturally starts to question and provide a
plausible narrative. Maybe Luke has just come home from checking on the
farm's distant moisture condensers? Or maybe he's just said farewell to
his friend Biggs and is now home for supper, trying to convince his
aunt and uncle to let him join the academy. For me, the absence of
characters makes the scene more compelling and interesting.
Thanks for dropping by!
