An RPF Open Source 5 ft Millennium Falcon Build/Reference Thread. All Are Welcome
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So if I'm reading this right, the piece on the right is just brass rod?? This is the top where the mandible meets the body.
Finished and put in the finished maps folder on my Google Drive.
So is the larger, round piece under the Ferrari piece from the McLaren? I only have a few pieces left on this sidewall.
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What kit is that from? That’s what we need. I was looking for two pieces.
Lol. Okay thanks. I thought you had a one piece version. I need to go to bed.
I just scored a McLaren on eBay. That should make Stu happy.
This is a piece that has since fallen off the starboard mandible. Tamiya Tiger I?
If correct, that's a really good discovery -- if it is a double stack, it's significant because it's part #7 in both cases, and b/c it's another reason you need the vintage Marlboro M23 instead of the newer Yardley McLaren 23 -- D7 on that kit is the top cap to the elusive two screw-driver half pieces, that you don't get in the later Yardley boxings.
Got any angle shots that "prove" it's that tall? Without having the pieces on hand to place against the sidewall, it looks like a stack might make it "too tall" and stand proud of the chassis rail above it by too much, but I'm only speculating. The image on the left you've posted certainly makes it "look" like it might be two concentric pieces stacked on top of each other, but that could also just be a trick of the light, photography, or paint job.
Here's the closest I could find, and it is certainly suggestive that it might be taller than just the Ferrari piece:
Either way, it's great sleuthing you're doing, and easily the most fun Easter egg hunt in the galaxy...
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I'm still not in my studio with pieces to compare, but I'd say that last picture (far right) certainly nails the argument: it's clear that the piece on top has been placed "off-center" onto the piece below it, and if that piece isn't D7 from the M23, well it sure looks like it! And since the rest of that screwdriver shows up just a few greeblies to the left, they were clearly working with Sprue D on that section of the ship. So I think you've nailed it.
I only need a few more pieces on this side. Any idea what tracks these are? They are awfully close to the Bandia 1/30ish Hummel, but the line that runs down off center is on the wrong side.
Thanks swgeek -- much appreciated.
Also, you DO need 2 McLarens, but I think you only need one of them to be the original Texaco M23 boxing.
Also, you DO need 2 McLarens, but I think you only need one of them to be the original Texaco M23 boxing.
This section is hard to find early reference for. The red circle can been seen in the Chronicles book. It seems to match this part found at the front of the mandible. Any ideas what the green might have been?
That same Ferrari piece gets used by itself on the port side lower forward mandible, on the topside of the lower inside forward chassis rail.
