NEW (OLD) MILLENNIUM FALCON from SOLO the movie

nkg said:

Great. Thanks for taking the time to do that; much appreciated!

Why would I want to interchange them? Well, basically because the cockpit tunnel ridge on the 144 TFA/TLJ model is just awful. The trough is too wide and is filled with random greeblies that don't look anything like either the 5 foot OT Falcon or the TFA/TLJ movie Falcon. It's a source of great mystery to me why Bandai did such a fantastic job on modelling the ship in most every other regard, yet mess that up so badly! They did almost exactly the same thing on the 1:350 version of the ship, weirdly.

I've made a 3D printed replacement ridge, but it's a huge pain to install as you have to get the scribings to match, and that's hard to do well. So I'd almost buy a Lando Falcon just to get a better fitting part. But they're too different for that to work. Ah well.

- nkg

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nkg said:

Funnily enough I think it's easier to fit the 1:350 corrected part than the 1:144 part, because the latter is much wider even though the former is smaller. And so to get it to the correct width you've really gotta screw around! :/

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astroboy said:

For me, RMQ was really the preliminary designer of the star wars galaxy. But if his designs were translated literally to the screen, it would have been very bland. The real life and character to those designs came from the model makers, costume designers, builders and Lucas himself.

This is one of the reasons I was so outspoken about seeing so many RMQ tributes coming out of the modern LFL. It's like if a band releases all their old demo songs as "new material". It comes off as uninspired.

Don't get me wrong, I love looking at the concept sketches. But I don't need to see them brought to the screen.

As an aside, I watched "honey I shrunk the kids" with my little ones recently and it was amazing to see how Joe Johnston brought all of those tricks from his Lucasflm days into that movie. So many seamless models and matte paintings to help create the world

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