An RPF Open Source 5 ft Millennium Falcon Build/Reference Thread. All Are Welcome

[RealDaveWinter]

Does anyone know what the Bandai part K56 should be in real life?

There are the remains of a part visible on the images and the part maps; it's flagged as kit 122 Nichimo Tiger II, but the Bandai part looks almost like a bit of landing gear. All the images I have show it broken. So does anyone know what it was originally?

thanks

 

[jcoffman99]

I’ve never seen a pic with it either. Here’s the Bandai part.

 

[manugu]

Does anyone know what the Bandai part K56 should be in real life?

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There are the remains of a part visible on the images and the part maps; it's flagged as kit 122 Nichimo Tiger II, but the Bandai part looks almost like a bit of landing gear. All the images I have show it broken. So does anyone know what it was originally?

thanks

What the Bandai part was originally? Or which part of Nichimo Tiger II it was originally?

 

[jcoffman99]

I'm thinking a 1/72 Airfix. What say you?

 

[RealDaveWinter]

What the Bandai part was originally? Or which part of Nichimo Tiger II it was originally?

It certainly not in the Tiger II kit.

 

[jcoffman99]

Thoughts? 1/24 Hurricane which is already used in that area.

 

[RealDaveWinter]

Yeah, that looks about right. I'd go with that. I've just never found a photo of the Falcon that doesn't have that part broken, so I wounder how Bandai knew to use it.

 

[jcoffman99]

Yeah, that looks about right. I'd go with that. I've just never found a photo of the Falcon that doesn't have that part broken, so I wounder how Bandai knew to use it.

I'm sure they had all kinds of access to stuff we only dream about.

 

[Necronaut]

The shoe definitely fits.

 

[RealDaveWinter]

It looks to me like Hurricane Part #240. Which has all the spiky-bits going in the right directions.

 

[Searun]

Oh!, okay. I didn't know that had been solved already. Well, better late than never. I guess that's what I get for not reading 117 pages in the thread.

Interesting comment here regarding the Falcon and its never ending kit parts details discovery. It is exhausting trying to keep up. On my bucket list is researching all these pages and discussions. Therefore, may never be totally “done - done” with my build.

Many thanks to all that have contributed with their web site input. Great respect for the past experts that built their studio scale Falcons years ago without that resource and never the less did superb homework.

 

[RealDaveWinter]

So another part verification question.

The part marked #61 - 1/15 Hummel in purple/blue. Can someone please confirm that's in the Hummel kit? I'm not finding a part that looks anything like that.

Thanks

 

[manugu]

My guess was
C25, cut:

 

[RealDaveWinter]

Ahhhhhh... yeah. Thank you very much. The cut parts always throw me off.

 

[jcoffman99]

Mine doesn't have the leftover part on the end. Stupid clean injection. lol

 

[RealDaveWinter]

Hmm, weird, as that would be in the tooling to allow the plastic to flow all the way to the end of the part. Maybe it just broke off? Otherwise it's more of a short shot than a clean injection.

 

[jcoffman99]

Added the Jagdpanther German Medium Tank Nitto | No. 443 | 1:76 to everything.

 

[jcoffman99]

Fixed a few things. Kit 115 was removed from the list. Don't need that one. Updated these two with the correct parts (120-1 on the first and 126 on the second)

 

[jcoffman99]

Added the Ilyushin to everything.

 

[jcoffman99]

Can someone refresh my brain please? Were the color Chronicles pictures after ANH filming? There is considerable difference around the sides of the engine in the color photos versus the black and white. Trying to nail down which is the ANH version.