darth_ender said:

A thought for Johannus: since our opening will be using the Executor in place of the Imperial Star Destroyer when Vader arrives, it occurred to me we may have a use for both your Lambda shuttle and Super Star Destroyer models. It may be easiest to just reuse the shuttle footage while compositing the bigger destroyer, but since we want to make the approach take a bit longer, your model may come in handy. Just early thoughts. But of utmost importance if going with an actual model, how much close scrutiny could it handle? Could it be used in a scene like this? Or do you think it's better just for the distance shots? No worries if it can't get that close, as that's pretty detailed. Just asking.

I think we might be able to get away with a scene like that if we were going for a youtube quality video, but I think if our aim was DVD or even BluRay quality it would really show the weakness of using a smaller scale model. The only thing that might work would be to film the model for the reference angles, then try to overlay some sort of detail we create in photoshop or something. If someone made a surface texture in photoshop, then I know After Effects has an option to put 3D pieces on top of video so we could sort of make the triangular texture piece 3D and line up the edges, if that makes sense. That way it would be more detailed but still with its limitations. I think for a shot like that you would need a larger scale model, a 3d model, or my smaller model and a lot of touching up afterwards to add more details.

An idea I remember reading before was changing the shuttle used by Han and co to get to Endor to the wider version that looks more like a cargo shuttle. I have been planning to make one of those for some time so if people like that idea I could find the piece I started a while back and see what I can do there.