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Poakwoods
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True... Strange, I never knew. I thought it was only a scaled version of his bigger 1/72 brother.
The position of the cockpit corridor also looks more correct. The 1/72 was a mess.
Toadmeister
Sr Member
The Falcon is full of enigmas and contradictions or plain sillyness, but we love it
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astroboy
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Hunk a Junk
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The Falcon is full of enigmas and contradictions or plain sillyness, but we love it
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True. ALL Star Wars ships -- PT, OT and ST -- are full of implausible shapes, production cheats, and flat out silliness. But they look cool, and that's all that matters. Frankly, the idea that the Falcon was designed as a "freighter" always seemed wrong to me. It's too small (Han's TFA cargo ship is a far more plausible freighter, even though the design is blah) and there are no obvious cargo doors to get freight in and out besides the main boarding ramp. In my head canon, the Falcon started out as a B-25 style light bomber (it has GUNPORTS, for f-sake) that has been repurposed as a smuggler's ship.
Richard Baker
Sr Member
I think the Falcon moved freight two ways- small expensive things which could fit into the interior through the hatch and larger cargo modules gripped by the front mandibles. To me that makes the ship design make sense- the off set cockpit to see around what he mandibles where holding and the design of the mandibles themselves with all that specialized (and symmetrical) equipment along the inside edges.
People have been going nuts since the seventies trying to assign some function to every random greebly ILM stuck on the filming model at 3am, but a lot of the basic shapes are pretty well thought out.
People have been going nuts since the seventies trying to assign some function to every random greebly ILM stuck on the filming model at 3am, but a lot of the basic shapes are pretty well thought out.
Jaitea
Master Member
Not really a fair comparison,....& the toe-in is VERY minimal
This is it next to the model it is supposed to be depicting,...look at the jaw,. the cockpit length....the mandible length.....it just looks so wrong
J
That is the Fine Molds version, isn't it? I'm honestly confused.
astroboy
Master Member
I realize that it's wrong in many ways. But it is slightly better than the 1/72
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Jaitea
Master Member
I'm still not seeing it...a little bit better of wrong is still wrong
....sigh.......but the main thing....
The Bandai 1/72 looks perfect,.....so no need to sweat
J
astroboy
Master Member
Well, the first one I got was the 1/144. My biggest complaint was the hull arc and the radar dish. Not the mandibles
But then they reissued the 1/72. I pre-ordered it and my heart sank when I opened it up. The mandible are so parallel that they actually look like they splay. The biggest visual cue of the difference is that the mandibles touch the centre jawbox on the 1/144. Whereas they don't even come close on the big brother.
But yes. It's all moot now
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it could easily be replaced by a simple pastic hinge I would think.
That's what I always assumed too!, I mean afterall the ship is far too small to be used as a freighter!
Poakwoods
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