Large scale Millennium Falcon Kit ID's**New Maps at start of thread**

[Gort]

Hey thanks guys for all your comments, what a storming kick off. I'll try to update these images soon with the info you've given.

Hey Lee. Thanks for checking. The '73 Tamiya catalogue has a parts layout for the Matra but I can't see any obvious matches. However the parts are quite hard to make out so you could be onto something. Looks like the pipework I've queried in MF004 look to be from a 1/12 car but can't find a match so far, though the Matra has quite similar parts.

Cheers Whisley on the extra use of the Centurion hull. That's handy then

Thanks Alan56 on the steer for those brackets, just couldn't get a bead on those at all.

Also thanks for the info that its a 1/24 M60 grill that's used... Had an awful feeling that might be the case. Do you have any other sprue scans you could share for the big M60 so I can try to ID any other parts?

Julien: You are a force to be reckoned with on this stuff (no pun intended) Thanks for the steer on the ship part. I'll start to see what I can find and check back with you.

Flintlock: again many thanks for your help. I consider you to be a real expert at this stuff.

I must be mad doing this with most of my kits in storage, however you can't fight the urge to make big spaceship replicas when it strikes you, especially the MF!

re MF009 can anyone nail that last yellow disk on the side of the docking section. I could call that partmap done then

re MF0010 underside pic, is the detailed yellow engine type part I've question marked, the same as used on the top of the Cylon raider? could it be a 1/12 car like the Porsche 935 maybe?

Thanks again guys. Hope this is helpful to some of you as well as me. Lots more to go yet...gulp....

Nick

[Flintlock]

MF009 Disk - most likely a large scale Kubelwagen (maybe Bandai 1:24). The same part is in the 1:48 (used on the Y Wing neck) and also in the 1:35 Tamiya. Only this one is bigger.

I can't give you a positive ID though, and the scale might even be bigger... But it looks like the same part.

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Also thanks for the info that its a 1/24 M60 grill that's used... Had an awful feeling that might be the case. Do you have any other sprue scans you could share for the big M60 so I can try to ID any other parts?

You got it:

[Scott Graham]

MF010, where you mention the yellow part that looks like the base of a turret, always looked to me like the rear top engine deck of an M60 style tank. It's a shape unique to these tanks.

[Flintlock]

Maybe?

ESCI 1:9 German Volkswagen TYP 82 Kubelwagen #7009

[Flintlock]

Meh, sorry. It looks like this is incorrect. Or ... maybe not. You can't see the other side of a few of the discs...

[eagle1]

Hey Nick,

Many, many thanks for kicking this off, this will help immensely not only myself but heaps of others too.
I guess like many here, Iv'e been collecting the kits required for a number of years & have ammassed a great deal, but boy some of the part I'ds are a real challenge, thank god for guys like yourself & others here willing to reveal these I'ds.

Cheers
Stu

[ralphee]

Nick, maybe discount the Matra, cant see much in there in the ID's i picked out.
That tranny in MF010 is a bit odd, cant find a Porsche with the same tells, at least from Tamiya, but it does look "similar" to the pattern on the Entex 32" part.....very odd.
Ive looked at a few F1's, DFV is obviously out, but 312b etc, still turn up nothing close yet checked the old Datsun and 1/16 Tamiyas too, nada

lee

[Gort]

Hiya,

Yup, you are dead right. Courtesy of the sprue pics kindly posted here of the M60 its a definite match, albeit with a round hatch added to it.

Cheers for the note on the big Kublewagon disk. I'll see if I can pick one up, both for that and the engine deck bonnet cover part.

Thanks again guys.

N

MF010, where you mention the yellow part that looks like the base of a turret, always looked to me like the rear top engine deck of an M60 style tank. It's a shape unique to these tanks.

[Flintlock]

Cheers for the note on the big Kublewagon disk. I'll see if I can pick one up, both for that and the engine deck bonnet cover part.

Nick, I am not very certain about that part. It looks to me to be from the Kubelwagen, but I don't know what size/scale, and it could be from something else even. Maybe we could get some help to nail it down with at least a little more certainty before you fork over your hard-earned cash.

[Guy Cowen]

Heh Nick, I'm just uploading 90 or so pics of the 5 footer that I took in Sydney. I'll zip the file & add it to my public download site so you can take a look if it helps?

[Guy Cowen]

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_k...thkey=CJbC45IG

Around 90 hi res shots of the 5 footer in a zip file to download

[Gort]

Hey thanks Guy,

I'm sure I won't be the only person hoovering those up. Slightly limited access to my home PC at the moment so may not be able to grab these till early next week. Can you keep them up there till then?

Cheers
Nick

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_k...thkey=CJbC45IG

Around 90 hi res shots of the 5 footer in a zip file to download

[Guy Cowen]

No problem, they're going nowhere for a long time. Please feel free to use them as you wish when you get em. Hopefully there will be some shots you need. Like with the PD I lost a ton of them from my computer, these where the shots I took on my first fleeting visit. I did have the hole bird mapped out with around 200 shots on my second visit....never to be seen again!

[Flintlock]

Guy ... wow, thanks a lot for these pics!

[Guy Cowen]

My pleasure

Do they download ok, never done this before with a zip file?

[Flintlock]

Yes they download alright. Ha, it's funny looking at this because I have so many parts I need I could probably throw together a damn decent 5 footer... provided that I cast duplicate parts. I don't have the M8 Carrier - though I need one for the X Wing.

[eagle1]

Pic MF008 part-1 doesn't appear to be from the Tamiya 1/35th King Tiger, the turret part details while quite similar to the part in the pic are slightly different. I'm picking it's from another KT, maybe Bandai?.
Anyone have an alternate King Tiger kit to be sure?.

Guy, many thanks for the pics, just awesome, appreciate you taking the time to do this.
Stu

[Gort]

Hi Guy,

Just managed to download those pictures. Great stuff. Got some more of the underside which is really handy. Thanks very much. One can only wonder at what that other set you lost would have been like....gulp!

Cheers
Nick

No problem, they're going nowhere for a long time. Please feel free to use them as you wish when you get em. Hopefully there will be some shots you need. Like with the PD I lost a ton of them from my computer, these where the shots I took on my first fleeting visit. I did have the hole bird mapped out with around 200 shots on my second visit....never to be seen again!

[Guy Cowen]

Not at all fellas, even if there is just one ID found from my pics its worth the time to put em up.

Re the lost set, I was totally gutted. I lost a ton of Sand crawler shots also, that really hurt.

Glad to help.

[omes72]

Holy smoke Nick! Been moving house & come back to this unbelievable Thread! Tooo Kool man. This is some great work. Im pretty much set up again now mate so just let me know what you need. I'll go through the maps over the next couple of days & see what Ive got to cast up for you aswell.

[MonsieurTox]

Pic MF008 part-1 doesn't appear to be from the Tamiya 1/35th King Tiger, the turret part details while quite similar to the part in the pic are slightly different. I'm picking it's from another KT, maybe Bandai?.
Anyone have an alternate King Tiger kit to be sure?.

Guy, many thanks for the pics, just awesome, appreciate you taking the time to do this.
Stu

Stu, I'm not sure which KT you're talking about but if it's the one on studioscale.com, keep it mind this one was never used in any Star Wars stuff because it was not available at this time. There is a vintage KT made by Tamiya, it's very rare and Ive never seen any scan of it beside the boxart so I'm not sure if that's the right kit. But seing the copula being molded with the top of the turret, that's probably one of those early crappy Tamiya models !

[eagle1]

Stu, I'm not sure which KT you're talking about but if it's the one on studioscale.com, keep it mind this one was never used in any Star Wars stuff because it was not available at this time. There is a vintage KT made by Tamiya, it's very rare and Ive never seen any scan of it beside the boxart so I'm not sure if that's the right kit. But seing the copula being molded with the top of the turret, that's probably one of those early crappy Tamiya models !

Hey Julien,

The KT I have is #57 (35057) in the Tamiya MM range, dated 1975, so was around in time for ANH. The turret just doesn't match the part in Nicks parts map.
I don't have any scans of any other 1/35th/24th KT's so really hard to do a comparison lol!.
Kt donor parts are all over the Falcon, but as to which kit from which manufacturer is used is a problem. I'll just have to buy a few KT's & have a look to be sure.
Stu

[omes72]

Hey Julien,

The KT I have is #57 (35057) in the Tamiya MM range, dated 1975, so was around in time for ANH. The turret just doesn't match the part in Nicks parts map.
I don't have any scans of any other 1/35th/24th KT's so really hard to do a comparison lol!.
Kt donor parts are all over the Falcon, but as to which kit from which manufacturer is used is a problem. I'll just have to buy a few KT's & have a look to be sure.
Stu

I'll have kit Scans of the Bandai 1/24 up before the end of the weekend.
Im on holidys then & will do as many new Kit Scans as possible of the kits I haven't scanned yet.

[MonsieurTox]

Hey Julien,

The KT I have is #57 (35057) in the Tamiya MM range, dated 1975, so was around in time for ANH. The turret just doesn't match the part in Nicks parts map.
I don't have any scans of any other 1/35th/24th KT's so really hard to do a comparison lol!.
Kt donor parts are all over the Falcon, but as to which kit from which manufacturer is used is a problem. I'll just have to buy a few KT's & have a look to be sure.
Stu

Hey Stu, there was an older KT made by Tamiya (Mokei). Is that a KT w/ Henschel or Porsche turret you have ?