Hunk a Junk
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Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
As someone totally down with the SEs, you have my blessing. :cheers
As someone totally down with the SEs, you have my blessing. :cheers
Bandai 1/72 PG Millennium Falcon (also the Revell Germany rebox)
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robn1
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I say special ed edition.
I neither like nor dislike the grill, it's just not original. And it takes away from the exotic nature of the original engine.
I say special ed edition.
I neither like nor dislike the grill, it's just not original. And it takes away from the exotic nature of the original engine.
crackerjazz
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Cool photos, hikarub, thanks!
I thought you would have loved to get your hands on it -- wouldn't this be a perfect 3-dimensional reference material whose measurements and others aspects like hull shape and parts placement can just be scaled up to 5-footer size? In my case I once dreamt of building a 5-footer but have long accepted the fact that I don't have the resources. I remained feeling dejected, though, until this kit came along. I'm happy to settle for a model of THE model : )
EDIT: Just saw your 5-footer update. My eyeballs sprung out of their sockets. You don't need no stinkin' 1/72 model for reference, heheh.
I'm guilty of that : ) I would have loved to see more rings on the lower Me-109 struts : ) But I'm just happy we'd be wallowing in all that detail. I bit the bullet and ordered one from CultTVman! Can't describe the pain of hitting that buy button, but the thought of seeing even just the Drive Safely decal in person makes me all giddy with anticipation.
Cool photos, hikarub, thanks!
I thought you would have loved to get your hands on it -- wouldn't this be a perfect 3-dimensional reference material whose measurements and others aspects like hull shape and parts placement can just be scaled up to 5-footer size? In my case I once dreamt of building a 5-footer but have long accepted the fact that I don't have the resources. I remained feeling dejected, though, until this kit came along. I'm happy to settle for a model of THE model : )
EDIT: Just saw your 5-footer update. My eyeballs sprung out of their sockets. You don't need no stinkin' 1/72 model for reference, heheh.
I'm guilty of that : ) I would have loved to see more rings on the lower Me-109 struts : ) But I'm just happy we'd be wallowing in all that detail. I bit the bullet and ordered one from CultTVman! Can't describe the pain of hitting that buy button, but the thought of seeing even just the Drive Safely decal in person makes me all giddy with anticipation.
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ggriffaw
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Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
Having a several foot high shiny strip that wraps around most of the back of a ship that is that beat up looking wouldn't make sense to me.
The detail wasn't modeled because it didn't need to be seen. For the SE films, they changed their mind and added it.
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Do we ever see the back with the engines off in the pre-SE films? If we don't, we don't know what it was intended to look like. I always thought the brightness of the engines concealed any detail that was supposed to be there.
Having a several foot high shiny strip that wraps around most of the back of a ship that is that beat up looking wouldn't make sense to me.
The detail wasn't modeled because it didn't need to be seen. For the SE films, they changed their mind and added it.
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I've done a lot of searching but can't find much definitive photographic evidence of what the full sized Falcon sets had for engines. The information I found is fairly fleeting and inconclusive.
https://sites.google.com/site/millenniumfalconnotes/the-lighting
(scroll down to the engine section)
It's a shame for consistency's sake that the TFA grille has wider spacing than the SE grille. I like the engine details behind the TFA grille well enough. The SE engines obviously didn't show anything at all behind the grille - just light.
But, as always with a space fantasy like this, you just need to pick and choose the stuff from each movie that makes you happy!
I've done a lot of searching but can't find much definitive photographic evidence of what the full sized Falcon sets had for engines. The information I found is fairly fleeting and inconclusive.
https://sites.google.com/site/millenniumfalconnotes/the-lighting
(scroll down to the engine section)
It's a shame for consistency's sake that the TFA grille has wider spacing than the SE grille. I like the engine details behind the TFA grille well enough. The SE engines obviously didn't show anything at all behind the grille - just light.
But, as always with a space fantasy like this, you just need to pick and choose the stuff from each movie that makes you happy!
Jaitea
Master Member
Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
No, they didn't need to, Full size set was shot from front end or side only in SW & ESB
J
No, they didn't need to, Full size set was shot from front end or side only in SW & ESB
J
Ancalagon
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Here's an interview from Tested with Bluefin (US distributor of the 1/72 Falcon) with some pretty nice b-roll of the model itself and some sprue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGoJv3vmLs
Edit: Seems I was a bit hasty in concluding that the sprues were from the Falcon -- at least one of them is from the A-wing.
Edit 2: I haven't seen any discussion on pricing and availability outside Japan, but according to Amazon it is $399 (+ $178.18 Shipping & Import Fees Deposit to Norway) and will be available October 31.
Here's an interview from Tested with Bluefin (US distributor of the 1/72 Falcon) with some pretty nice b-roll of the model itself and some sprue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGoJv3vmLs
Edit: Seems I was a bit hasty in concluding that the sprues were from the Falcon -- at least one of them is from the A-wing.
Edit 2: I haven't seen any discussion on pricing and availability outside Japan, but according to Amazon it is $399 (+ $178.18 Shipping & Import Fees Deposit to Norway
) and will be available October 31.
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Jaitea
Master Member
Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
Brilliant video Ancalagon
In regards to us Europeans,....getting our hands on the kit.....I think I need to advise not buying through America,....the duty added on to the model coming from there is a hell of a lot more than getting direct from Japan....so really,....ordering from a seller from Japan on Amazon or ebay,...will be substantially less expensive
J
Here's an interview from Tested with Bluefin (US distributor of the 1/72 Falcon) with some pretty nice b-roll of the model itself and some sprue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGoJv3vmLs
Edit: Seems I was a bit hasty in concluding that the sprues were from the Falcon -- at least one of them is from the A-wing.
Edit 2: I haven't seen any discussion on pricing and availability outside Japan, but according to Amazon it is $399 (+ $178.18 Shipping & Import Fees Deposit to Norway
Brilliant video Ancalagon
In regards to us Europeans,....getting our hands on the kit.....I think I need to advise not buying through America,....the duty added on to the model coming from there is a hell of a lot more than getting direct from Japan....so really,....ordering from a seller from Japan on Amazon or ebay,...will be substantially less expensive
J
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Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
:lol
Wow, talk about the "way back" machine
I have that thing along with the die cast Star Destroyer, X-wing, Y-wing, Tie Fighter, Salve-1, Cloud Car and Snowspeeder
The Y-Wing has a detachable bomb/torpedo on the bottom and was painted like "Red Jammer"
The Star Destroyer had a mini rubber Blockade runner
The Ties were white and had that funky rear part that was like a trunk
:lol
Wow, talk about the "way back" machine
I have that thing along with the die cast Star Destroyer, X-wing, Y-wing, Tie Fighter, Salve-1, Cloud Car and Snowspeeder
The Y-Wing has a detachable bomb/torpedo on the bottom and was painted like "Red Jammer"
The Star Destroyer had a mini rubber Blockade runner
The Ties were white and had that funky rear part that was like a trunk
astroboy
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I have some of them. They aren't in very good shape. But that falcon is still my favorite falcon toy. It has a perfect "vroom vroom" factor
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Well, that thing was my first falcon too, back around 1979... long time ago it ended with crappy additional handpainting (no, not screen-accurate, i was 12 and just discovered the possibility of painting modelkits with brushes ) with a lot of other stuff at a toy flea market... it went along with some matchbox-cars and the die-cast-TIE-Fighter... oh, yes, and i had the Stardestroyer too; same story!
Man, based on the detail of this thing a revell-toy-falcon looks like a real movie-prop, he,he...
Well, that thing was my first falcon too, back around 1979... long time ago it ended with crappy additional handpainting (no, not screen-accurate, i was 12 and just discovered the possibility of painting modelkits with brushes
) with a lot of other stuff at a toy flea market... it went along with some matchbox-cars and the die-cast-TIE-Fighter... oh, yes, and i had the Stardestroyer too; same story!Man, based on the detail of this thing a revell-toy-falcon looks like a real movie-prop, he,he...
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astroboy
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And it had three landing gear!Where is the problem? - It has everything falcon should have and more (cockpit glass). Only missing thing is some grill on engine vents
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Whoa. This is interesting. Turns out that the Bandai 1:72 does indeed have the engine grille spacing of the TFA CGI model - around 45 openings. Versus the Special Edition's finer 75-80 opening grille. But - it doesn't have the internal engine detailing used on the TFA ship!
Its internal detailing is closer to, but not identical to, the model used in the FineMolds 1:72 Falcon.
http://www.rebelscum.com/2017-San-Diego-Comic-Con/San-Diego-Comic-Con-2017-Bandai-Hobby/image17.asp
Whoa. This is interesting. Turns out that the Bandai 1:72 does indeed have the engine grille spacing of the TFA CGI model - around 45 openings. Versus the Special Edition's finer 75-80 opening grille. But - it doesn't have the internal engine detailing used on the TFA ship!
Its internal detailing is closer to, but not identical to, the model used in the FineMolds 1:72 Falcon.
http://www.rebelscum.com/2017-San-Diego-Comic-Con/San-Diego-Comic-Con-2017-Bandai-Hobby/image17.asp
ozzyguanche
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Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
To many as well as myself, the production of a 5 foot in 1/72 scale is something that we have dreaming about for 20 years, but for some reason I have some sort of I have remorse that it has been done. Maybe because I have ever finished my own scratch build or maybe because it is one of the last bastions of the Star Wars universe that until now was left to the imagination and skill of the people here and other forums to pursue.
Looks amazing though and very welcome. I may purchase but not build untill I finish my own version.
Ozzy
To many as well as myself, the production of a 5 foot in 1/72 scale is something that we have dreaming about for 20 years, but for some reason I have some sort of I have remorse that it has been done. Maybe because I have ever finished my own scratch build or maybe because it is one of the last bastions of the Star Wars universe that until now was left to the imagination and skill of the people here and other forums to pursue.
Looks amazing though and very welcome. I may purchase but not build untill I finish my own version.
Ozzy
Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
More Falcon blog fun:
http://bandaihobby.hatenablog.com/entry/2017/08/04/220000
Translated:
https://translate.google.com/transl...om/entry/2017/08/04/220000&edit-text=&act=url
More Falcon blog fun:
http://bandaihobby.hatenablog.com/entry/2017/08/04/220000
Translated:
https://translate.google.com/transl...om/entry/2017/08/04/220000&edit-text=&act=url
Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
I know what you mean. There's hardly anything to do on this one to make it a perfect Star Wars model.
It's like the Rogue Studios guy in Florida finally constructing a replica 5 foot Falcon. On the one hand, it's an amazing piece of work. On the other, that imaginary frontier is now closed!
I know what you mean. There's hardly anything to do on this one to make it a perfect Star Wars model.
It's like the Rogue Studios guy in Florida finally constructing a replica 5 foot Falcon. On the one hand, it's an amazing piece of work. On the other, that imaginary frontier is now closed!
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