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Star Wars Complete Cross-Sections

By: David West Reynolds Curtis Saxton Kerrie Dougherty
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 0756627044
ISBN-13: 9780756627041
Released: 30 Apr 2007
RRP: £35.00
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Excellent reference for Star Wars fans, Model Makers and artists alike. - By: M. MCCLOSKEY, 21 Jan 2008
This book adds an extra dimension to alll the behind-the-scenes type books DVDs etc. Just when you thought you knew everything about the models/ships, here is a book that shows you what you dont know (should be inside). They are fanaticallly detailed & to scale. I actuallly bought this to help me build a couple of the old AMT/ERTL models.
The drawings are so detailed they could easily be printed at 200% larger & you would still be engrossed looking at everything. There are some fold out sections which does help to show the illustrator's glorious attention to detail.
It is sorted in chronological order i.e. ships from Episode I first followed by II then III then last section grouped together Episodes IV-VI.

The text accompanying each drawing is equallly detailed & done in the "factual" style as in the Visual Encyclopedias. Each with a datafile you could play Top Trumps with. We alll know the Millenium Falcon is a modified Corellian YT-1300 transport (don't we?) but what I didnt know is that it had "2 Girodyne SRB42 sublight engines" !

There is a nice feature towards the end of the book on each of the 2 illustrators (Hans Jenssen & Richard Chasemore) with an example showing their art during each stage of work. This type of information always makes me appreciate the technical/artistic ability of creators even more.

One very tiny but practical complaint is that the book is so large at 36cm talll it doesnt fit on any of my shelves with my other StarWars/Lucas Arts/ILM hardbacks.