After you finish this amazing work can't you just send the whole thing to Shapeways in 5 ft measurements. Someone buy one and then cast and sell that bad boy?????
Sounds easy.
EP VII Millennium Falcon
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After you finish this amazing work can't you just send the whole thing to Shapeways in 5 ft measurements. Someone buy one and then cast and sell that bad boy?????
Sounds easy.
SteveStarkiller
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man, do I wish.
give it a couple years. One day soon, even the fancy stuff we're doing now with 3D printing will looking like faxing.
give it a couple years. One day soon, even the fancy stuff we're doing now with 3D printing will looking like faxing.
SteveStarkiller
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Also, I did a bunch of work on the rear side walls (though it sure doesn't feel like much)
it feels very much like they vaguely referenced the 5' model at first, with those eight vent sort of details right near the main exhaust, and then went all super-mario with the pipes for the rest of it. What I have here doesn't even touch on the serious pipe-based greebling going on in this area on the new Falcon.
it feels very much like they vaguely referenced the 5' model at first, with those eight vent sort of details right near the main exhaust, and then went all super-mario with the pipes for the rest of it. What I have here doesn't even touch on the serious pipe-based greebling going on in this area on the new Falcon.
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Vacformedhero
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Or even can it be milled out of a tough foam board, if you could get the finer details right it would be amazing , even looking at this as a white 3d object it's a piece of art, I have my falcons all hanging like paintings on the wall of my office , image the 5 footer , over the stairs LOLAfter you finish this amazing work can't you just send the whole thing to Shapeways in 5 ft measurements. Someone buy one and then cast and sell that bad boy?????
Sounds easy.
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SteveStarkiller
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a list might be a bit tricky, it might be best to distinguish between definite and subtle changes.
for instance the dish is a definite change, the new red panel in the rear port quarter is a definite change, but there are more subtle proportional changes to the body and paneling that are a little harder to catalogue.
for instance the dish is a definite change, the new red panel in the rear port quarter is a definite change, but there are more subtle proportional changes to the body and paneling that are a little harder to catalogue.
Avanaut
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The subtle changes may be harder to catalogue but It's exciting to see the differences in the bits and pieces found. I'm following this thread with a keen eye.
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thanks!
here's an update. at this point I'm just a few pipes and greebles short of finishing the forward port quarter altogether.
90% of the texturing here is projected directly from the Bob Igers cover shoot. Vfxsup64, I used your orthographic image of the 5' Falcon yet again, to fill in the missing DNA.
here's an update. at this point I'm just a few pipes and greebles short of finishing the forward port quarter altogether.
90% of the texturing here is projected directly from the Bob Igers cover shoot. Vfxsup64, I used your orthographic image of the 5' Falcon yet again, to fill in the missing DNA.
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SteveStarkiller
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got some more detailing in.
looks like the access pits in the mandibles are still very faithful to the 5' Falcon, with just a bit of extra pipes and bypasses added, presumably, over the years.
most of the details I just put in on the port mandible sidewall are grabbed from my replica of the ANH fullscale falcon, so they're kind of funky. There's definitely some kind of Wankel replica hinted at in the Fortune magazine cover. All the details I can see peeping up over the edge of the sidewall fit the rotary kit part, but that's basically all I know about that sidewall. I just couldn't stand looking at the blank slate there.
looks like the access pits in the mandibles are still very faithful to the 5' Falcon, with just a bit of extra pipes and bypasses added, presumably, over the years.
most of the details I just put in on the port mandible sidewall are grabbed from my replica of the ANH fullscale falcon, so they're kind of funky. There's definitely some kind of Wankel replica hinted at in the Fortune magazine cover. All the details I can see peeping up over the edge of the sidewall fit the rotary kit part, but that's basically all I know about that sidewall. I just couldn't stand looking at the blank slate there.
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SteveStarkiller
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I have no practical model making skills at all, and it would take a monumental effort (and frankly a fortune) to make this a printable model. I think the idea is to have a model as accurate as possible to the new Falcon that can be used as reference for other folks. And also so I can daydream about making fully rendered action sequences.
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