Millennium Falcon (Red?) Headlights - Question

[Jedi Dade]

Yes. The shot existed - but I think the red dots were added.

 

[Junk Pilot]

In addition to the lights added into the mandibles of the 5ft Falcon the model was also retrofitted with lights on the lower hull as well.

There are:
2 lights at the front of the lower jaw box;


4 lights on either of the lower hull (3 in front of each landing gear box and 1 on the outside of the lower maintenance area);


and 2 on each side of the lower rear quarter, one of which is hidden inside a part in the lower rear engine deck.

 

[Darth Humorous]

Hi Mark, would you have any links to images of the red light on the 5 footer mandibles,...any retrofitted illumination I've seen are of the headlights....one rod per mandible,....as you say perhaps they switch it to be a red light, but I've never seen it in action:
http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag383/jaitea1/Fronton_zps94fd1c26.jpg

J

I’ve done a cursory search in my archive data, and they do not come up, so I will have to dig deeper which that will take some time. The way my luck is running, they are probably on the dead hard drive.

Long ago, whenever I’ve tried to post images or give links, someone would always beat me to it, so I stopped trying. Now I’m surprised no one has jumped in yet. In general, I agree with Jedi Dade, though I have seen and hopefully can find the images for the ESB “5-footer” Falcon with the mandible red lights turned on. Who knows, maybe the ones I saw/have/had? were “doctored” to make them look red, though I don’t think so.

Mark

 

[Junk Pilot]

There's a quick shot of the 5ft Falcon in the space slug (just before it cuts to Leia alone in the cockpit) and it just shows the mandible tips with the lights on and they appear red there as well.

 

[catboat]

This is an interesting topic but I think we need to be very clear about which version of the falcon we're talking about, and which had red light and which did not.

ANH

• The original 5 ft. falcon for ANH did not have any lights
• The Original Set piece in ANH did not have any lights.

ESB

• 32" Falcon - built with lights - white headlights in the front. one per mandible in the center . the other black areas are weathering smudges.
• 5 foot falcon - added lights mandibles. These were also white. the holes on the top and bottom (4 each) depicted above are part of the model part used for the 32" falcon. They are not actual holes.
• Set piece - lights added all over this... white spots all around the bottom, and red marker lights on the landing gear and the front of the mandibles.

• The Bespin take off shot - that was an addition during the Special edition makeover, as an FX. the model did not have red lights when filmed.

ROTJ

• Setpiece - remained largely unchanged form ESB. although minor changes were present due to the set being torn down and reconstructed between movies. However IIRC the Falcon set piece does not show up in the movie as the sandstorm scenes were cut, and the rebel hangar is a matte painting.
• The 5 foot and 32" models were almost identical to ESB. The only differences in the models being minor repairs and paint work to fix issues resulting from the models going into and out of storage.

The long and short is that the models only have had white lights on the mandibles.

The Set pieces had red and white lights added.

Clearly the Falcon is supposed to have red lights on the mandibles as well as white. due to the FX shot that added the red lights and the set piece having them.

The result is you can add them or not and be correct in your build as long as the "headlights" are white, and the marker lights are red.

Make sense ??? :rolleyes

Jedi Dade

Exactly the information I was looking for. Thank you.

 

[3Dsf]

I wrote a whole buttload of stuff on this nerdy topic a while back.

Part III: the Lighting - 3dsf.info

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