Adam Savage Examines the Mother Ship Model from Close Encounters of the Third Kind! 

If you look at the pattern of the ends of the fibre optic cables - are the patterns in braille? Could those be the names of the builders?

you should rebuild this so it can be lit up again. do your friends proud dont let the darkness claim it!!!!!!

i want to see the original model of galactica

@@BLM11014 my thought exactly

wasnt this model also used in blade runner?

I've had a similar experience after I watched the Matrix, but the Matrix still pales in comparison with this masterpiece. Movie's just seem cheap nowadays. Not worth watching.

Love this comment, I wish I could have experienced this it would have been amazing 👍🏻

Amen to that brother 👍

Yeah, me too, and there were barrels and all sorts of other stuff kitbashed from model kits on there!

They look like fighters off maybe some kind of WW2 carrier model kit or something. Good eye.

Indeed! My gues is that these are from those 1:100 scale models. But it is difficult to see how big it really is

Me too. Took a screen shot to get a better look.

mikkelhaxer yeah i got to see it one time and there’s a little r2d2 on it too

It's damaged. It caught on fire inside one night when it was accidentally left on. So it doesn't light up anymore, unfortunately, and is a bit beyond restoration in that regard, according to the folks working on the STTOS Enterprise when I visited.

@@AcroRay acutally NOTHING is ever beyond restauration...its just a case of how far do we want to go aka how much money do we want to spend aka is it worth it ... sucks to live in such days :(

@@AcroRay That's a real shame, I was wondering if it could be somehow restored so that it could be lit up with no danger to the model.

Maybe they could nicely ask Adam to restore it properly so it could be fully and safely illuminated as designed. :-)

@@AcroRay Sounds like a perfect job for Adam...one day repair!

There were but they were porn films. ;-)

Here here, it should be repaired!

This movie and e.t.

@@paulytheking7365 Paul is better than all of them

Contact (1997) is good too,

"Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind" is also worth watching, an early spoof short (like "Hardware Wars" for Star Wars): - Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KEkW4es9okU.html - Hardware Wars: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ccfbw2RJ3ow.html

Sorry for your loss

@@LivingRoomTrader Thanks, Trader. That was a couple of decades ago now that the cancer or more it seemed to be the chemo and radiation that did her in. One doctor said she was the victim of modern medical care. Aside from that where in the heck did the time go since then? Under the proverbial bridge I guess.

I have one in my pocket at all times. It's useful more often than you might guess.

I carry a little maglite solitaire on my keychain, now that they're LED powered they aren't hot garbage in terms of illumination, lol. Eats batteries kinda fast though.

@@TrashHeapCustodian I have a little "tactical-style" one I got as a gift that is brighter than my 12-in non-LED maglite

ALWAYS.

I'll have a try carrying one. Any suggestions?

At 1:35 that looks like a tow bar attachment from a WWII German Tank.

Yes!!

Weta still does a lot of models. And a surprising amount of Blade Runner 2049 was models. But I know what you mean. It’s an anomaly, not the norm now.

A surprising number of movies still use models.. The best quality CG actually costs more than models, and .. cheap CG looks awful.

It's actually a little more common than people think. You just have to find the right directors and movies. You'll be surprised to find what is actually a model when it looks completely CG or in some instances real. Some examples: EVERYTHING by Christopher Nolan, everything by Peter Jackson, and everything by Wes Anderson. A lot of directors use practical effects for their movies as well, all though they are not models they still look amazing. They include: Everything by Sam Raimi, most things by Steven Spielberg, most things by Guillermo Del Toro, most things by George Miller, and probably a lot of other directors too. James Cameron and Michael Bay should be noted as two directors who blend CGI with practical effects incredibly well. You can tell what's CG, but you can't tell what real. I highly recommend "The Dark Knight" and "Interstellar" (both by Nolan), "Blade Runner: 2049" (by Denis Villeneuve), "The Lord Of The Rings" (by Peter Jackson), and "Mortal Engines" (Produced by Jackson and directed by Christian Rivers) if you want some modern movies with amazing models work.

The problem today is that you often just don't know when you see it if its a model or CG, you just default to thinking its all CG even when its not. I'm more often amazed when they actually build a physical thing for a movie that i thought was totally CG and then it turns out it wasn't.

@@ZeroB4NG I've been guilty of thinking something looked really fake and CG and it turned out it was a real prop or model. Turns out my mind has just been trained to not believe things are real. Haha

Exactly what I thought when I saw them.

I had a hunch that it at least was braille

The scenes in the desert are fantastic. Spielberg had to pay for those shots himself.

@@agfagaevart funny anuff I'm watching the movie atm. Barry going By by.

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing but he did say built by many of his friends from ILM, he didn't actually say built by ILM. So he's right, from a certain point of view. R.I.P. Greg Jein