Screen Accurate Millennium Falcon Cockpit (CG Model)

[Treadwell]

Interesting take on the wall shown in the thumbnail. The movies have two different depictions of that area (just a wall in ANH, and an inset bunk in the sequel trilogy), but it makes sense that there should be some way to utilize the empty space behind it.

 

[SteveStarkiller]

all that's there in the real set, it's just very dimly seen.

I'm virtually certain that the object with the round hole in it is the underside of a car hood. I found lots of examples with a round cutout like that for a carburetor or something, but none exactly right. Something like this though:

but that's the only image I've seen of it, most of the shots I think the space is open to accommodate the camera

I have a secret bonus area behind all that junk. You can't really see it in the video, except for partially for a second, but behind all the barrels and the car-hood object, there's an entire room I built to match the unused maquette of the area, mocked up for ESB. Complete with bunks and consoles.

 

[Treadwell]

Nice!
Perfect representation of the ESB take, then, and sneaking in the bonus area is, well, a bonus!
There's either a glimpse in ANH of the area, or I've seen behind the scenes stills, I don't remember. Doesn't matter. That version is pretty boring anyway.

 

[Snow Builder]

Extremely cool -I love it when we get a new post from you.

 

[3BRBS]

Fantastic!

 

[SteveStarkiller]

thanks everyone!

here's another small update, working on bringing my cockpit in-line with the rest of my new photomatched interior. So far I've been able to pull in old models of the cockpit, move a few bits around, add a few bits I missed. One thing I'm seeing is that when I compare it the force awakens sets, which are basically ESB with tweaks, they really, REALLY, did their homework. Whatever else you could say about those movies, they really did the Falcon right in a way that's frankly amazing (imagine what could've been... imagine a fully redesigned Falcon-- Star Trek 2009 style. *DEEP SHUDDER OF HORROR*)

 

[3Dsf]

So down the road from my office there's this new strange-looking building. It replaces a great big air vent for the London Underground, formerly the old City Road station.

It’s now a huge heat exchanger, using warmth from the tube for heating nearby buildings. Pretty cool.

And the colours and arrangements of the side of the building reminds me of Harry Lange's control panels for the Millennium Falcon...

 

[joberg]

TFS with us! Keep up the great work!!

 

[vectorzero]

So down the road from my office there's this new strange-looking building. It replaces a great big air vent for the London Underground, formerly the old City Road station.

It’s now a huge heat exchanger, using warmth from the tube for heating nearby buildings. Pretty cool.

And the colours and arrangements of the side of the building reminds me of Harry Lange's control panels for the Millennium Falcon...

So they do. And small world. My last two companies were within a few metres of there (Wharf Road, and Bath Street).

 

[SteveStarkiller]

oh man I wish I had twinmotion about five or six years ago... I started messing around with this file, based on the one I started at the very beginning of this thread, and it's getting very Very close to what I had always wanted it to be.

 

[Lt Washburn]

Nice tour. It's cool to see the true perspective of the exterior from inside.

 

[joberg]

Very cool indeed

 

[3Dsf]

Awesome!

 

[deltanet]

Hi Steve,

I'm a recent member, but occasional lurker and follower of this thread and your blog. I have to say, I'm in absolute awe of your work. It's inspiring!

I've been trying to get my head around the falcon layout on-and-off since playing the Star Wars role playing game many years ago. (omg 30 years ago )

You've posted some renders of the interior in light of the changes for the Solo movie and Ep VII and I wondered if you'd seen this floor plan on Wookieepedia (Millennium Falcon). They've stuck with the offset corridor and added a hidden hatch to get around the problem accessing the forward escape pod between the mandibles.

Solo era Falcon

I'm posting it here just as a point of interest, not as any kind of critique. The floor plan still doesn't seem to match screen caps from Solo.

Another layer of mystery to the ship of riddles...

Dave

 

[SteveStarkiller]

Hi Steve,

I'm a recent member, but occasional lurker and follower of this thread and your blog. I have to say, I'm in absolute awe of your work. It's inspiring!

I've been trying to get my head around the falcon layout on-and-off since playing the Star Wars role playing game many years ago. (omg 30 years ago )

You've posted some renders of the interior in light of the changes for the Solo movie and Ep VII and I wondered if you'd seen this floor plan on Wookieepedia (Millennium Falcon). They've stuck with the offset corridor and added a hidden hatch to get around the problem accessing the forward escape pod between the mandibles.

Solo era Falcon

I'm posting it here just as a point of interest, not as any kind of critique. The floor plan still doesn't seem to match screen caps from Solo.

Another layer of mystery to the ship of riddles...

Dave

took me a while to see this. I agree the cut away for Solo era has a different layout than shown in the movie. Some time ago I did a layout of what the movie set probably actually contained (which I think you probably saw)

but of course, considering this overlay I did even longer ago, this layout would be bursting out of the port side of the ship even worse than before.

over all I think what they did is pretty reasonable considering what they've already established as canon, and what kind of limitations there are in the long saga of the ship of riddles...

 

[SteveStarkiller]

for me I'm just still mad they keep including these ridiculous rooms in front of the big pipe at the forward end of the main hold. Whoever first put those in a cross section ought get a spankin...

just... No. stop it. There's a 4 foot wide tube you're saying a door goes through, and that's also the narrowest edge of the saucer section you're putting rooms in.

 

[maruska]

Ha. 2D is not 3D!

 

[3Dsf]

SteveStarkiller : Maybe we're thinking about them all wrong. Maybe they're not pipes which go from place to place... but they're great huge horizontal... tanks!

 

[SteveStarkiller]

SteveStarkiller : Maybe we're thinking about them all wrong. Maybe they're not pipes which go from place to place... but they're great huge horizontal... tanks!

part of me would reluctantly buy that: for instance the two pipes next to the Nav Console just end abruptly where cicuit bay is... not much use as a pipe if it just dead ends...

 

[SteveStarkiller]

but even if they're tanks, it still doesn't allow for a passage into some absurd room on the other side. I will not accept it sir!