Early Millennium Falcon Pics

[kitbasher]

building a 5 footer is a lot of work... hundreds of castings involved, dozens of molds... trust me on that one.

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/3870405

(the site hasn't been updated in looong time.)

 

[Howard]

:eek

Incredible!

 

[Whiskey]

The 1/48th kits? I'm scanning them... slow going, but I can throw them up.

Yep!

Thanks Moffeaton!

 

[kbilly]

I'll second that yep! scans would be much appreciated.

 

[Guy Cowen]

Now that is one holy grail, he is doing an incredible job. What a star

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

building a 5 footer is a lot of work... hundreds of castings involved, dozens of molds... trust me on that one.

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/3870405

(the site hasn't been updated in looong time.)

Where there's a will, there's obviously a way. Absolutely amazing work.

 

[TheRealMcFly]

Does anyone know of a website that has Bandai Kit scans?

www.studioscale.com

There's the 1/48 panther anyway, and many others. Should we start identifiying the parts? I know there are some 1/72 hasegawa sherman bits on the escape pods.

 

[Whiskey]

Does anyone have info on these parts?

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Can anyone confirm the larger piece(minus the bottom plating) came from an airfix 1/72 airplane?

 

[kitbasher]

the cylindrical piece behind the quad gun is from the Entex 1/5 Wankel engine. It's simply sanded down from its fully-cylindrical shape. The area around it is probably just notched styrene sheet, not unlike what's covering most of the falcon.

 

[Whiskey]

Thank you Basher! I must have looked through the box hundreds of times checking for more greebles. Any updates on your bird?

 

[lonepigeon]

the cylindrical piece behind the quad gun is from the Entex 1/5 Wankel engine. It's simply sanded down from its fully-cylindrical shape. The area around it is probably just notched styrene sheet, not unlike what's covering most of the falcon.

If anyone needs the Wankel kit or just parts from it LMK.
I have a complete one sitting here unused that I'd sell outright or part out.
I bought it hoping the large model pieces would be on some of the 1:1 SW props, but it appears they were only used on scale models.

 

[Whiskey]

Does anyone have info on these parts?

quote]

Can anyone confirm the larger piece(minus the bottom plating) came from an airfix 1/72 airplane?

Bump on the smaller piece(s)?

 

[Whiskey]

Need help with this part.

 

[chrome]

Looks very much like a tread of a Stug IV or Panzer IV, maybe modified a litle bit....

 

[Whiskey]

Stumped on this part.

 

[Whiskey]

Heres a pic without the coloring

It appears the upper and lower turret bases are different. Ive checked through all of my reference photos and The one you see above is thhe upper and the one you see below is the lower. Notice even the armor plating is different.

 

[faustus100]

Actually-They are both pictures of the upper gun turret.The bottom doesnt have any gun or full turret at all.That piece is what appears to be a part that fell off.Ive never seen that part on any pic before.Do you have a full pic of that area?Both those pics seem to have been taken before the gun was messed up.:cry

 

[faustus100]

Actually JP
After looking more closely at the pic I would say that part may not have made it to final construction.It was obviously taken during the building stages.You can see the screws before they put down the final tiles.Maybe they just happened to have that part laying there-Ive never seen it in any other pic
Id say its a machine gun.

 

[Whiskey]

Actually there is an upper and a lower.

 

[faustus100]

Wow!Ive never seen that shot before!Ive seen the actual model at the museum and that bottom turret has a hole for a display pole.Can anyone chime in on this part?

I only ask because they seem to be on the top as well