7/26/2023 0 Comments Columbus museum of art star wars: Speaking of moving the model, your cardboard Millennium Falcon is currently on display. It fits fairly well in the back of our mini-van (with all the seats out). However, being that its cardboard, it probably only weighs about 30-40 pounds, and a lot of that weight is the hot glue. The model is about five-feet long, actually a little larger than the model made for the original Star Wars film. Tom Richner: When it was completed, I did shoot some photos on our green screen at CCAD. : I read that you transported it for photos - does it fit inside a vehicle? How did you move it? It’s a close interpretation of the original. I studied photos but didn’t work to copy the original model exactly. The hardest part was dealing with the lack of sleep and being tired after staying up until 2-3:00 a.m. The detail work on the surface took about half the time. I looked at a lot of the photos for how they built the original models and used cardboard to create an inner support structure that was similar. I would spend a few hours most nights after the kids were in bed putting it together. Tom Richner: It took me 140 total hours to build the cardboard Millennium Falcon over the course of many months. : How long did it take you to complete the model and what were some of the challenges you encountered while building it? And, my thinking was if I was going to make one, it needed to be big. I think it was a combination of the new movie coming out this year, my kids being the right age for it, and grabbing back a little of that comfort from my youth. While still freelancing, I’ve always continued to make things here and there for fun outside of work. After going to school for animation at UCLA, working professionally as an artist on The Simpsons, and teaching animation for the last 10 years at the Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD). If I saw two paper plates and a styrofoam cup, I thought, "There’s the body and the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon right there," and two minutes later it was taped together and flying around our house. But, I was always making Star Wars ships when I was little. One of the earliest things I made using cardboard and paper mache was a Ghostbusters proton pack for Halloween. I got interested in paper mache when I was young. Tom Richner: My father is an artist and we were always building things and painting pictures when I was growing up. : What inspired you to make a model of the Millennium Falcon? I talked to him about the work that went into building the Falcon, transporting it for photos, and how it came to be part of a display at the Racine Art Museum. A love for Star Wars clearly stayed with him. He saw The Empire Strikes Back in the theater and remembers running home from the bus one day after school to tell his mother Return of the Jedi was out and that they needed to go see it that weekend. Richner first encountered Star Wars when he was five years old. When it came time for him to empty out cardboard boxes in his basement, he decided to repurpose the material rather than stacking it by the recycling bin and created a detailed replica of the Millennium Falcon. I know cardboard has functions beyond holding stuff and beyond serving as a bed for my choosy felines, but I'm not always patient or skilled enough to see beyond the surface. When I see a pile of cardboard boxes, my first thought is usually about whether my cats would like to play with them. Feast your eyes on one beautiful, recycled hunk of junk.
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