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Feb 08
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1:72 Naboo Royal Starship #1 (A New Hope Era)

This 41 inch long piece was mastered by Richard Long. Because there was no great way of replicating the chrome finish we viewed in The Phantom Menace, we chose instead to do what Star Wars A New Hope did in showing older designs that were nearing the end of their operational lifetime. Thus this Naboo Cruiser is supposed to be the Episode 1 Royal Cruiser, but now old and tattered decades later, losing is shiny luster. This one was the first in a very low number produced. This piece now resides in the Hector Rosales Collection in the USA.

This piece has a 2016 Modeler Magic appraised value of $4,000 USD

Kuhn Global Blue Screen Photos of the Royal Naboo Cruiser (A New Hope Era) by Kurt Kuhn

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Feb 08
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1:350 Romulan Bird of Prey #2 in Romulan Green

This was mastered by artist Richard Long. He made me two of them so that this second one could be done in a paint scheme that was green in order to match what was shown on the TV series Enterprise. The first one of the two was the actual studio looking paint scheme of grey, which I gave to my friend Harry Hernandez.

This piece has a 2016 Modeler Magic appraised value of $3,800 USD

Kuhn Global Romulan Bird of Prey – Blue Screen Photos by Kurt Kuhn

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Feb 08
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Studio Scale Cylon Raiders – “Pyro” and “Hero” Comparison

These two Raiders are beautiful. Both built by R.L. Bleecker, look closely and you will see the differences. I photographed them side by side for all to view for themselves.

The photo above I did replicating two of the Raiders as we viewed flipping over during their classic attack scenes.

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Feb 08
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Studio Scale “Hero” Cylon Raider

I had shown the studio scale Cylon Raider “Pyro” version that had become a kit soon after Jim Key and Mark Dickson had released it. This one shown here today was patterned by artist Mike Salzo to be more like the “Hero” model that we viewed in the series and film. There are differences that you will view in another post placing them side by side.
Artist R.L. Bleecker was again behind how this piece turned out. He did wonderful work.

This piece has a 2016 Modeler Magic appraised value of $2,500 USD

Kuhn Global “Hero” Cylon Raider Blue Screen Photos by Kurt Kuhn

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Feb 08
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Studio Scale Cloud Car #1

This beautiful model was patterned by artist Tobias Rubom, then built by artist R.L. Bleecker, whom did a fantastic job. Every detail was carefully replicated. Artist Dan Grumeretz made the pilot figures exact to the originals used in filming.
As you can see I took as many angles and lighting effects as I thought would be good to allow for use. That stated, after I initially released these blue screen shots, Star Wars artist Chris Trevas contacted me to use them for a poster he was doing for Star Wars Celebration for Lucasfilm. I will show that poster soon in another posting. On the poster, it showed us looking over the shoulder of Boba Fett as the Millennium Falcon was escorted into Cloud City. The Cloud Cars seen in that official poster are taken from these photos.
The reason this Cloud Car is labeled #1 is due to this being the first we had shown, and the first that was ever known to have been replicated. There are now many that have these in their own collections, with kit makers making own releases from time to time in different sizes.
Pardon my look in this, I was taking blue screen photos of these models so much, that I decided never to wear the same hate twice, so I wore my beanie I picked up in Scotland!
This piece would eventually be shown in the collection of Hector Rosales in the USA.

This piece has a 2016 Modeler Magic appraised value of $3,500 USD

Kurt Kuhn with the Studio Scale Cloud Car #1