I saw The Force Awakens on Friday, and I can't talk about it. I didn't want to see it so early, but as someone who spends a lot of time on the internet for work, I was already coming across spoilers last week and figured I'd better see it before it was ruined. And I don't want to spoil anything for those of you that haven't seen it yet.
So all I can talk about is this: In the original Star Wars, perhaps the galaxy's greatest Jedi knight was toiling away in obscurity on a moisture farm. Here on Earth, perhaps one of the country's greatest modelmakers has been toiling away in obscurity in a call center.
That man's name is Jeremy Brumage, and while the Force is apparently strong with him, fielding calls from a cubicle didn't give him a lot of chance to exercise it. So between calls, the veteran Star Wars fan began assembling shockingly faithful vehicle models from the franchise—out of office supplies.
The level of detail is incredible.
According to his local news network:
"Scrap materials. Each one has paperclips, folders, staples. Then some more complicated parts would be like telephone headset pieces, that you know, [a co-worker's] headset would break and they'd start giving me pieces," Brummage said. "Then to make the stands, I used either a marker or a highlighter and cut that in half and used the lid to plug it in and let them stand up that way."
Brummage also used coffee stirrers, thumb tacks and pencil erasers to make the models. Pens were used to make up the laser cannons on the X-Wing Fighter. Markers make up the thrust engines.
To those of you working at an ID firm that still has an actual modelmaking shop: You need to step up, become this man's Ben Kenobi, snatch him up out of that call center and teach him the ways of The Force. Meet me at the bar, I'll tell you how fast my car is, then drive you guys back to your studio.
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Outstanding. The kit bashing SFX were my favorite parts of older sci fi films. I wonder if any of the production designers from TPM or AotC actually built any physical models by hand.