Millennium Falcon Alternative Early Concept Version

[Stormy320]

Great beginnings!

 

[Constantine]

Luv it, the design and symmetry, very nice.

 

[Haui]

forex is relly cool and the video is well explained,

 

[Jaitea]

Great beginnings!

Thanks Stormy.....I think I might change the scale of the cockpit.....Don't know

Luv it, the design and symmetry, very nice.

Thank you Constantine,...(from one Falcon nut to another)

forex is relly cool and the video is well explained,

Yep,...I love it,....it's an amazing material.....Thanks for that about the video,...gonna have to do another one

John

 

[MARK M3]

As usual sir...excellent and inspiring work!

 

[Jaitea]

As usual sir...excellent and inspiring work!

Thank you so much Capn’....a lot of fun on this

Hi all....I had a decision to make for the cockpit, it was a bit large on the original sketch....& after Jason Eaton’s comment on page one, that it was likely the concept drawing of this ship was done after the pirate ship was built (later repurposed as the Blockade Runner), so I’ve done a cast of the PG Falcon’s cockpit cone & adjusted the way it attaches to the ship....work goes on

Thanks very much for checking in

John

 

[Jaitea]

I’ve been doing some more moulding & casting....I made multiple copies of a gun that Stinson Lenz sent me for my Ralph McQuarrie Concept Falcon..which is still ongoing....anyway this version of The Falcon is pretty heavily armed...all guns have small magnets on them....so they can swivel or be removed to let me paint the model....still the engines to work out....then hull plating

Bit of a change of subject,...back in 2012, I got involved in a group build on Scale Model Addict,....a Millennium Falcon group build,....I shared my progress here on Replica Prop Forum & Starship Modeller,......I started with a Revell Easykit,...modifying it a bit by adding a pointy nose protruding beyond the mandibles,....I dropped the idea opting for a MPC kit which was a bit bigger...& a lot more fun....It's a real coincidence that a sort of pointy Falcon design ended up being used in the Solo: A Star Wars Story,....I dug the model out the other day & did some mods to its engines

Anyway.....sorry about that

Time to make models

Thanks for looking

John

 

[Millenniumf]

Damn, dude... this Johnston Falcon project is inspiring!! You should totally try and get him to sign it when it's done, or at least the base!

 

[Jaitea]

Damn, dude... this Johnston Falcon project is inspiring!! You should totally try and get him to sign it when it's done, or at least the base!

Wow,...that would be cool,...thanks Millenniumf

John

 

[Jaitea]

Some more done...radar dish & started planning out the plating....not going to fix down until I get a square punch...it’s coming from eBay...going to use it to make notches on the panel edges

Thanks for checking in folks
More soon

John

 

[Analyzer]

Awesome!

 

[Jaitea]

Awesome!

Thanks Analyzer....done a bit more this afternoon

Hoping to use a cast of this torch for engines

thanks guys

John

 

[Analyzer]

I had to think for a second what you meant by torch, them I remembered your in the UK, so...flashlight for us "muricans"

It looks like a cool part for the engines. I love how this is like a new ship formed over the bones of the blockade runner

 

[Jaitea]

I had to think for a second what you meant by torch, them I remembered your in the UK, so...flashlight for us "muricans"

It looks like a cool part for the engines. I love how this is like a new ship formed over the bones of the blockade runner

Ha...well why say a word with 2 syllables when a word with 1 will do

Thanks ,...yeah crazy the evolution of the concept

John

 

[HMSwolfe]

Looking good. Great greeblie work, I can’t wait to see it all finished

 

[Jaitea]

Some engine work done...I cast part of my sons torch to use as the engines....I’ve done 3 of these so far....all are hollow...I rotated the mould as it cured...partially to save on materials & also to make them lighter as they were to be glued to the existing model...



Thanks for looking guys

John

 

[Jaitea]

I’m still adding & casting parts....I’ve cast 10 engines....so trying to find parts to dress that engine area up....here’s my progress so far

Thanks for looking

John

 

[Jaitea]

My progress today on this project...got greeblies added to the engines,....thanks mainly to the Bandai Y-Wing kit....some pipework etc....still waiting for that square punch to come in the post, to cut out notches on the hull panels...they aren’t glued down yet...thanks for looking

John

 

[modelcitizen]

i'm partial to the non- nibbled plating. makes it more "joe johnsonish" in my opinion.

 

[Jaitea]

Well...maybe not too nibbled

John