Large scale Millennium Falcon Kit ID's**New Maps at start of thread**

[MWD]

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I posted the Heller CB750FOUR because of the earlier conversation of the CB750FOUR being used and what kit was used. I posted these so the guys that were looking for the CD750FOUR info had another option to look through. The one bike was a later release, post Star Wars I believe, so this was a kit that was out and I was told a couple were in the shop so, I scanned it and hope it helps
Now, the Galactica used a couple motorcycles also. One is a large scale Motorcrosser tha Mike Salzo has and used on the shuttle as it was used on and the gas tanks were used on the Galactica. I have to dig out the other bike kit but it was also a off road cycle. I bring these up because the ILM, Apogee, Universal Hartland and MCA 59 guys had these kits around from past project and added to the collection as they did more shows/movies so my thinking is, some of the kits could be reverse sourced so to speak. In some cases, I know a real good molder and caster to do the cost restrictive kit parts. I was thinking of doing the 1/24 Bandai parts and the McLaren M23 parts. Not all the McLaren parts, only the ones specific to its particular kit. The rest of the engine parts are the same on several of the Indy Cars that used the Ford F1 engines. He's doing my Base Star castings and all I can say is, fantastic castings. I received my first set this weekend and all I can say is, top quality as he does vac is rtv and pressure his castings to 85psi till cured so, the result is very clean. I will ask him to drop into the thread and then the parts can be made and sold through him as I'm not doing them, I’m only lending the part that are needed to him to make available to you all. I hope this helps because this birds expensive to build!!!

 

[MWD]

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Finally found two more parts for the gun area. These come from the Italeri 1/35 Elefant which is a donor for the fenders already but here’s the vent and the Hasegawa Half Track back end which matches. They added a few parts to it. I'm trying to find the donors for the gun housing themselves. I swear they are from ships based on the door with the three vents above it but none of my Heller 1/400, Hasegawa 1/450, Lindberg various scaled ships and Revel 1/570 ships match. This includes the older Chicago, Ramsey and a few other vintage Revell and Monogram ships. What a pain I'm trying guys!

Mark

 

[Rodmart85]

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Great info MWD!

It's great to have you here sharing your finds!thumbsupthumbsup

 

[MWD]

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I'm happy to be part of your group! You guys have done some serious work!


Mark

 

[moffeaton]

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Any of you nutters want the STYRENE Porsche Entex parts? I got one just for the Slave 1 and ESB AT-ST... will trade for gobs of other kits!

 

[MonsieurTox]

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Would love to buy castings or the actual parts of the Porsche used on the ISD !

 

[-... . .- --..]

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Der, never mind. BlackPig found those back in May... :lol

 

[Gort]

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Actually I'd missed those being ID'd so thanks for the reminder. Another good reason to get this kit! I notice that another one of those parts is stacked up on top of F1 parts but I've not actually shaded it yellow. Will amend this is if I can get away from DIY jobs for an hour!

 

[MWD]

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The Yellow parts that are bordering the top center structure is part of a cut down frame. The lower structure has a frame that borders it and is from the same kit. The parts on top are what was cut off from the frame. It's from the Frauhauf fuel tanker. If anyone has this kit, pull the frames out and look at them. I already cut mine down. You will see a real long set of frames. On the end of them is a section that steps off to the side of the frame. If you look at it, you will see all the markers that confirm this part is a trimming from the part that is used on the bottom center structure. If you cut the part off right where it meets, you will see it is exactly like the parts pictured above. The other parts is from the Bandai 1/24 Panther.

Sorry to have been so long winded. I'm just trying to make an image without a picture of the parts.


Mark

 

[MWD]

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I forgot, the part numbered 12 appears to be from a 1930 era vehicle most likely from Monogram. I have the Rolls Royce from Monogram and it's not the correct kit and neither are any of the Johan 1930's cars. If you look at the one Apogee shop picture, someone drew an arrow pointing to a kit and made the remark they wished they could make out the kits. I believe that is the kit the inline 6 motor part came from. The Rolls Royce kits engine is close.

Mark

 

[eagle1]

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MF005 part #12 is from the Bandai 1/48th Hetzer.
Stu

 

[MWD]

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Part 12 looks larger than 1/48. To be honest, comparing it to the McLaren part the 1/24 part looks right. In fact, when you use the trimmed frame member, you will see it's the 1/24.

 

[MWD]

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Here's the 1/48 Hetzer part vs. the 1/24 Panter part compared to the frame part.

 

[crackerjazz]

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Came across this photo of the 5-footer from Mary Henderson's Magic of Myth book. I wonder if this is an early photo when she was largely intact. I'd love to have that in the living room but it's just so out-of-reach budget-wise.

 

[Nwerke]

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cause it seems like the dome isn't really the same all throughout the ship but gradually flattens a bit at the engine deck area towards the rear feathers/petals? Has anyone noticed this? Or is it an illusion created by the flat petals?

Well, it's got the whole centre section of a large-scale Hawker (edit, thanks Simon) Hurricane wing on there, so that could reduce the slope a bit.

Now that is very impressive, Rodmart. I don't think I've ever seen this done in such a precise way to a Star Wars model. And I would take a guess that the mandible height would be 2 inches - or 5.08 centimeters.

I would too, but I bet it's 2 inches BEFORE kit parts go on.

For the most part they used handles inserted into the side walls to carry, lift and maneuvre the 5ft'er. It has 4 attachment points (holes, as seen in the attached image below) on either side of both docking rings where they inserted the handles which can be seen being used in the above image.

Handles are best seen in this pic, I think:

Came across this photo of the 5-footer from Mary Henderson's Magic of Myth book. I wonder if this is an early photo when she was largely intact.

I think the port mandible chassis rail is already missing, unfortunately. Either way it's a rubbish pic sadly - I have the book and the resolution on that is dreadful, even though it's printed at a large size.

Also a stab at a small part find:

Yes?

 

[jedimaster]

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I think you mean the 1/24 hurricane wing Martyn not harrier. Nice one on the bike bit.

 

[jedimaster]

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And more...

The part in mf006 under the 8 Rad Jerry cans in front of the messer is also 8 rad.

 

[Junk Pilot]

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Has the part on the 57 Chev chassis (between the 2 mufflers) been identified at all?

 

[Tsophika]

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Yes, Tamiya M42 Duster:

 

[Nwerke]

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God, Simon. I actually deliberated over that one. "Geddit right...HURRICANE not HARRIER...". I had to because I was on painkillers again last night. And I STILL got it wrong; for some reason I just have "harrier" in my muscle memory.

Hey, now that you're the proud owner of a Kettenkrad can you tell me whether it has those two trapezoidal flat plates, about the size of a 20c piece? It's either that or the 1/9 Kubel, and my kits are jumbled so I don't recall which they came from.