Darth Mellow
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Here's an EXTREMELY RARE pic with Mark Hamill checking out the five foot falcon,and Carrie Fisher talking to one of the stage hands.
never saw this pic before.. cool!
Here's an EXTREMELY RARE pic with Mark Hamill checking out the five foot falcon,and Carrie Fisher talking to one of the stage hands.
Yep, they're the vintage figs.
I had to. Took up the space I needed for the 5 footer. Hmmm, I suppose I could have just given it to someone who would want it. Shipping cost would not be feasible though....at least not for this.
Thanks for the compliment! I know this isn't 100% accurate,but I had no other photos at this angle to go on! Plus my retouch around the escape pod port on the side is a little rough,as I forgot to smooth it out! The model box looks like a painting! I don't know,as I need to get one of these. I have the toy,but I've never had the model when it came out. I take it that you need these photos for reference? If so,just go to www.starshipmodeler.com/starwars/smith_sw.htm#rebby Just scroll down a little to see the Falcon pics. This should help you get the photos that you need!
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ILM of course ditched the big Falcon model in favour of a smaller one for 'Empire', for greater possiblities of movement. However, for my money, they came very close to losing realism of scale, especially when the ship swings out into the camera. A great shot but more obviously a small model - never a prob with the 5-footer.
II'm sorry Colin,I didn't realize that I'd walked all over your thread! :unsure This is supposed to be ILM photos,not a general photos of the Millenium Falcon thread!:$Thanks, but I've seen sufficient museum exhibit photos - I'm now on an ILM studio photo kick. Museums don't let you light and photo these things like Edlund & co could. The museum photos are great for detailed greeblie ref etc. But for portraits you can't beat ILM, who had the luxury of distance and studio lights (not flattening flashes!).
So, any more ILM photos of the 5' out there?
Ditched = I think not... In fact the 5 footer is in Empire and Jedi in numerous places. the 32" was mainly made for the asteroid scenes in Empire where it had to sit in a miniature cave, rest on the back of an SD tower, in addition the smaller size made it easier for them to position for the dogdinhg rocks scenes. However the 5 footer was used in the landing sequence at Bespin, and a LOT during the DSII infrastructure chase sequences. In fact the most popular shot of the MF leaving the DS (with the fireball chasing it) is the 5 footer. Now with the advent of the CGI - the CGI model of the falcon is based off the 32" falcon. So all of the replacements shots done in the remastered versions are based off the 32". Which is kinda funny since the ANH falcon only had 3 landing gear - and now the falcon flying away from the blowing up DS in ANH has the extra landing gear boxes...:thumbsdown
My point is though that the 5 footer is alive and well on screen in Empire and Jedi...
Colin - Some of these shots are spectacular! Some I've NEVER seen before... Awesome!
Jedi Dade
II'm sorry Colin,I didn't realize that I'd walked all over your thread! :unsure This is supposed to be ILM photos,not a general photos of the Millenium Falcon thread!:$
Uncannyx! Great! thanks for that. But.. but... any chance of another, more straight-on view? And greater res? Or close-ups? If you can be bothered, it'd be so appreciated, but thanks anyway for taking the trouble.
Newbie, lovely touch-up! A nice eye-fooling work of fiction on that bit of the mandible.
Sorry to have to disagree, but no way is that kitbox image anything other than a different-hued (and probably more accurate to the negative) print of the same photo! I know, because when I was ten I would waste hours of my life staring at the thing at my friend's house. I couldn't afford the kit, so I'd go round there, see. Frankly, we were both more interested in that photo than the kit, whose sidewall foul-up was a bitter disappointment to us, even at that age!
Ditched = I think not... In fact the 5 footer is in Empire and Jedi in numerous places. the 32" was mainly made for the asteroid scenes in Empire where it had to sit in a miniature cave, rest on the back of an SD tower, in addition the smaller size made it easier for them to position for the dogdinhg rocks scenes. However the 5 footer was used in the landing sequence at Bespin, and a LOT during the DSII infrastructure chase sequences. In fact the most popular shot of the MF leaving the DS (with the fireball chasing it) is the 5 footer. Now with the advent of the CGI - the CGI model of the falcon is based off the 32" falcon. So all of the replacements shots done in the remastered versions are based off the 32". Which is kinda funny since the ANH falcon only had 3 landing gear - and now the falcon flying away from the blowing up DS in ANH has the extra landing gear boxes...:thumbsdown
My point is though that the 5 footer is alive and well on screen in Empire and Jedi...
Colin - Some of these shots are spectacular! Some I've NEVER seen before... Awesome!
Jedi Dade
Hi JD, I saw the 32" on ANH on the scene where Leia asked Han and Luke if they came in that "thing" while looking over a deathstar window, was this an enhancement? I also remember that the 32" was created for ESB but was surprised to see the 32" parked on the deathstar hangar during that ANH scene. I don't have an original un-enhanced vid of ANH so I can't compare.
WOW!Those early ref pix ared GREAT!Hey Colin-what cover does the book have that you got this pic from?Do you have a high res one?
Man!If we had some of this table area we might be able to make out some of the kits that were used during construction
I think that was a SE enhancement.