I debated weather I should bring this up and say something and I decided whatever just share a thought, Frink will have a go at me but never mind… So back when we were discussing the x-wing crash on Dagobah and the wings being closed so the engines were incorrect and so on.

I was wondering about the in cockpit crash and when I watched the Special fx Documentary narrated by Mark Hamill it shows the Cockpit was a mini cockpit with a camera rigged inside (explaining the cockpit inconsistancy) rigged on a wire to crash through the trees into the swamp.

Now I think the shot is somewhat effective bar the cockpit inconsistancy. Now any sort of crash in a modern film would probably be handled in an external shot of the crash rather than the way it is in Empire Strikes Back.

So I wondered had you ever thought about doing the crash “moment” (not bursting through the trees) externally using one of the x-wing models you have?
As for a set to film such a scene you need mud and water and a smoke machine which I believe is good and easy.If it was filmed in Plan view (looking down no need for green screen backgrounds) and perhaps a piece of fishing wire to pull the x-wing along or tug manually. It would be quite simple in that regard and perhaps 10x more effective. The only problem that I could see would be with the x-wing itself having to be modified with lights perhaps weighted and so on which is… Something that could be very simple then has to become more complicated unfortunately. But honestly I don’t know, it’s probably a lot more complicated than I think it would be but I will leave this vision I never shared previously with you and perhaps it’s something worth having a bit of fun with 😃