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  • Member since
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  • From: Longmont, Colorado
1 : 1 Millineum Falcon model?
Posted by Cadet Chuck on Sunday, November 12, 2017 9:23 PM

Did anyone else get a fancy e-mail supposedly from FSM re a 1-1 Millineum Falcon model kit?  There were a lot of links to click, but I didn't click any of them because I suspected it was a scam, not from FSM at all.  Better safe than sorry!

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  • From: Douglas AZ
Posted by littletimmy on Sunday, November 12, 2017 10:07 PM

Retired In Kalifornia
Nope. Why would scamers bother with modelers?

Happens  from time to time.....  You should see all the SPAM that occure's on the sister forum  Scale Auto.

There are also a few scammers trading/ buying model kit's. Ther IS mony to be made. I have always questioned the motive's of these people. It's more work to be "sneeky" than it is to make an honest living.

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  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Sunday, November 12, 2017 11:25 PM

It is the DeAgostini 1:1 scale movie prop. $72 a month for 25 months or $140 a month for 12 months subscription to get the model mailed to you a sprue at a time. $1200 if you want to buy it all at once.

https://www.model-space.com/us/build-millennium-falcon.html

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  • From: Pineapple Country, Queensland, Australia
Posted by Wirraway on Monday, November 13, 2017 4:02 AM
I had seen those DeAgostini kits for sale in monthly magazine issues and dismissed them as a con job and wildly overpriced. That 1/32 DC-3 sure looks tempting tho. Ditto the 1/12 Spitfire.

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    April 2009
  • From: Longmont, Colorado
Posted by Cadet Chuck on Monday, November 13, 2017 8:08 AM

Thanks to everyone for the information.  I was not aware of those kits!

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    September 2017
Posted by Pinkbooger on Monday, November 13, 2017 10:14 AM

I saw this too, I clicked on it and thought it was a super awesome looking model. Then I saw the price and immediately deleted it. $1200 for a model is ridiculous even if I am a hardcore Star Wars fan. 

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Monday, November 13, 2017 11:52 AM

Heh... 1:1 scale would be life size and 10 times bigger than the Space Shuttle.

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  • From: hamburg michigan
Posted by fermis on Monday, November 13, 2017 4:37 PM

Rob Gronovius

It is the DeAgostini 1:1 scale movie prop. $72 a month for 25 months or $140 a month for 12 months subscription to get the model mailed to you a sprue at a time. $1200 if you want to buy it all at once.

https://www.model-space.com/us/build-millennium-falcon.html

 

Not sure where the "1:1" is all about.

I do believe someone here had this kit in the works. I was following along, then got busy and forgot (until now). Lot of extra work going into it, as I recall, and quit impressed, I was!

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  • From: hamburg michigan
Posted by fermis on Monday, November 13, 2017 4:42 PM

fermis

 

 
Rob Gronovius

It is the DeAgostini 1:1 scale movie prop. $72 a month for 25 months or $140 a month for 12 months subscription to get the model mailed to you a sprue at a time. $1200 if you want to buy it all at once.

https://www.model-space.com/us/build-millennium-falcon.html

 

 

 

Not sure where the "1:1" is all about.

I do believe someone here had this kit in the works. I was following along, then got busy and forgot (until now). Lot of extra work going into it, as I recall, and quit impressed, I was!

 

Oh wait...1/1 as in the same as the movie prop...Dunce

Anyway...went digging for the thread. Hope the OP doesn't mind me spreading the word...

Here's the thread...

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/6/t/167858.aspx?page=1

 

 

  • Member since
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  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 10:34 AM

Yes, 1:1 scale as the filming movie prop.

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  • From: Sydney, Australia
Posted by Phil_H on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 4:42 PM

Meanwhile, an actual 1:1 scale Falcon can be found here: 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/millennium-falcon-star-wars-found-google-earth/

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