ImperialFighter said:
Ronster said:
1. Would we be able to see the upper gun of the x-wing on the side view cockpit as It enters the atmosphere through the blue haze?
2. Would the crashed x-wing miniature have smoke rising from the engines?
Ronster, I thought you might be onto something there, so thought I'd check it out...but on having a quick look at a couple of differing side-on blueprints, it looks from them that the uppermost part of the top closed guns would either be in line with the back corner of Luke's downwards-angled, side cockpit window (which is hidden by his head), or just ever so slightly below it.
So assuming the camera POV is pointed somewhat directly side-on to the window and Luke's head (which is how I see it personally), then no, I reckon it *wouldn't* be visible.
And I guess the smoke seen rising from the new X-Wing miniature is needed no matter what, so that it matches up with the smoke seen in the full-size version shot immediately afterwards.
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I think you might be right about the upper gun, to be honest I am not sure but I have learned to look out for stuff on all the cockpit views because they have problems of this sort.
Something I can confirm though is that the wing and engine was removed on the side closest to us to film the side shots of R2-D2.
It's around there somewhere in the nearfield of the bottom right of the image if it would not have been removed for filming