SteveStarkiller
Sr Member
Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
I'm loving putting this thing together so far... not sure what I'm going to do about the cockpit though.
My plan is to make an undetailed plug that would fit exactly where the current cockpit fits, same tabs, same dimensions, just no interior details. Then figure out what to model as far as ANH details. I'm tempted to keep the chairs and have them plug into whatever I end up printing, because they look great and don't have major difference from ESB to ANH.
however.... I sat han and chewie down in the one of the mandible access wells as I was building to reenact that "THIS one goes here, THAT one goes there" scene and I realized they're WAAAYY undersized. Bandai went with the in-universe overall Falcon length of 114' to get to 1:72 scale. I had toyed with the idea of making a printable Han holding a rag up to the starboard underside access pit, but at 1:72 scale he'd never be able to reach...
So I may attempt to rescale the model away from 1:72... for my own mods anyway...
The full-sized movie prop is about 86.5' long give or take. This gives a scale between 1:54 and 1:55 as near as my math can tell... This cockpit is gonna get real cramped...
to illustrate:
I'm loving putting this thing together so far... not sure what I'm going to do about the cockpit though.
My plan is to make an undetailed plug that would fit exactly where the current cockpit fits, same tabs, same dimensions, just no interior details. Then figure out what to model as far as ANH details. I'm tempted to keep the chairs and have them plug into whatever I end up printing, because they look great and don't have major difference from ESB to ANH.
however.... I sat han and chewie down in the one of the mandible access wells as I was building to reenact that "THIS one goes here, THAT one goes there" scene and I realized they're WAAAYY undersized. Bandai went with the in-universe overall Falcon length of 114' to get to 1:72 scale. I had toyed with the idea of making a printable Han holding a rag up to the starboard underside access pit, but at 1:72 scale he'd never be able to reach...
So I may attempt to rescale the model away from 1:72... for my own mods anyway...
The full-sized movie prop is about 86.5' long give or take. This gives a scale between 1:54 and 1:55 as near as my math can tell... This cockpit is gonna get real cramped...
to illustrate:
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