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YES!!!!
"THE" Millennium Falcon model I have wanted since standing in line around the block and finally seeing a film called STAR WARS! While everyone at the time loved the X Wings, I from day one loved the Falcon...THIS Falcon...An almost perfect reproduction of the 5' Filming model.
Very excited about building her up!
Fully Built and awaiting PAINTING/WEATHERING.
The model has some weight to it! The lights go on individually. You can have the engine and cabin lights on without the landing gear and entrance lamps on...etc.Unlike the brittle plastic of the fine molds kit, the plastic has some give but care must be taken when removing the delicate pipe work from the sprue.
The cockpit lighting is true to the lighting of the cockpit as seen in Star Wars...in scale and believable , unlike in Empire when it was lit like a Christmas tree.
A little work on the cockpit...
A little more work...
A couple more "IN PROGRESS" shots for anyone interested... OK...A little more progress. First there is no hymn or reason for how I am doing this. I am bouncing around the upper hull, sides and engine deck right now. I used photos of the real 5' Falcon .(I ran out of ink on my printer, otherwise I would display the photos with my model)...The fun continues! Note...the little gaps here and there will be cemented flush with the hull as I progress! A couple more "in progress" shots...
A couple more "IN PROGRESS" shots for anyone interested...
OK...A little more progress. First there is no hymn or reason for how I am doing this. I am bouncing around the upper hull, sides and engine deck right now. I used photos of the real 5' Falcon .(I ran out of ink on my printer, otherwise I would display the photos with my model)...The fun continues! Note...the little gaps here and there will be cemented flush with the hull as I progress! A couple more "in progress" shots...
OK...A little more progress. First there is no hymn or reason for how I am doing this. I am bouncing around the upper hull, sides and engine deck right now. I used photos of the real 5' Falcon .(I ran out of ink on my printer, otherwise I would display the photos with my model)...The fun continues!
Note...the little gaps here and there will be cemented flush with the hull as I progress!
A couple more "in progress" shots...
Uber cool, WOW.
we're modelers it's what we do
Looks great, does the upper hull open so you can see the insides?
Rob Gronovius Looks great, does the upper hull open so you can see the insides?
No. Does not open...and that's fine by me!
On my bench: Academy 1/35 UH-60L Black Hawk
since standing in line around the block and finally seeing a film called STAR WARS!
I think that is one of only a couple films I ever saw that had lines around the theatre. Godfather was the other if I recall.
A number Army Viet Nam scans from hundreds yet to be done:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/southwestdreams/albums/72157621855914355
Have had the great fortune to be on every side of the howitzers.
Started on the lower hull...
Bandai Perfect grade 1/72 Millennium Falcon... lighting. Love the “scale” lighting in cockpit! Han and Chewie shouldn’t need welders goggles to fly the Falcon!!
Wow that looks fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
Dang! I don't believe I'd have the patience to do that! Very nice work there!
Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...
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- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"
That is pretty friggin' epic man!!!
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
More refining on the Falcon...
Beautiful work! Very accurate weathering, sir.
So, are the landing gear and loading ramp interchangeable for inflight and landed display? Or do you just have to choose one or the other for your final build?
iSteve Beautiful work! Very accurate weathering, sir. So, are the landing gear and loading ramp interchangeable for inflight and landed display? Or do you just have to choose one or the other for your final build?
Yes It's all interchangable! Ill post pics of it with the gear and ramp down soon...
Jim Kirk iSteve Beautiful work! Very accurate weathering, sir. So, are the landing gear and loading ramp interchangeable for inflight and landed display? Or do you just have to choose one or the other for your final build? Yes It's all interchangable! Ill post pics of it with the gear and ramp down soon...
Yes!
Did you use the panel decals supplied or did you paint them? Is the individual lighting your own doing, or does the kit come that way? Where is the switch for the lights?
Thanks!
Man I love this model!!!!
Here are some pictures with the landing gear deployed...
Wow, your Falcon looks fantastic. Right out of the movie.
I have the Fine Molds kit but it does not come with the lights (although I plan to rig it for lights nonetheless) nor does my inspection of the parts make me think the level of detail matches this Bandai kit. Hmmm, perhaps I should just sell my Fine Molds and get the Bandai.
Very nice! How did you make and detail the blaster mark on the top of the hull? it looks spot on.
Clint
Man everytime I look at this I think it looks better than the ones these used in the movies.
What I learned from Star Trek. Never wear red when visiting a new planet......unless your Scotty of course
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