Bandai 1/72 PG Millennium Falcon (also the Revell Germany rebox)
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crackerjazz
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Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
Is there any sign of the engine fans being included in the kit? In some prop photos the middle part of the fans looks like a dome, but aftermarket parts show them as flat. I was hoping for grilled vents and fans so we can finally see what they really look like. I think having the fans is important as it's one of the trademarks that distinguish the 5-footer from the 32-inch. Models of the ESB Falcon with added fans just don't look right, but on this model they'll be a blast to see.
Is there any sign of the engine fans being included in the kit? In some prop photos the middle part of the fans looks like a dome, but aftermarket parts show them as flat. I was hoping for grilled vents and fans so we can finally see what they really look like. I think having the fans is important as it's one of the trademarks that distinguish the 5-footer from the 32-inch. Models of the ESB Falcon with added fans just don't look right, but on this model they'll be a blast to see.
crackerjazz
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Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
Wow, beautiful fans!!! Looks like something attaches to those middle notches. Thanks for the photo, Mike! This is gonna be some 5-footer model!
Wow, beautiful fans!!! Looks like something attaches to those middle notches. Thanks for the photo, Mike! This is gonna be some 5-footer model!
Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
Yes. There's a big block of black plastic with the fans moulded into it, if you're using the metal grilles. The fan centres look reasonably accurate to me - flat round discs with a rectangular groove in the centre, and concentric circles cut in. The blades look a bit odd though - wider at the top than they look to me in photos. But hey - Bandai are the ones who did all the crazy photo research...
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Heh - okay, so I'm late posting the same shot...
Yes. There's a big block of black plastic with the fans moulded into it, if you're using the metal grilles. The fan centres look reasonably accurate to me - flat round discs with a rectangular groove in the centre, and concentric circles cut in. The blades look a bit odd though - wider at the top than they look to me in photos. But hey - Bandai are the ones who did all the crazy photo research...
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Heh - okay, so I'm late posting the same shot...
JeffBond
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Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
One crazy thing I'd love to see on a Falcon kit is to open up all those blast deflector plates around the exhaust. They're obviously designed to move (isn't there a McQuarrie painting that shows them open?) and it would be a really cool way to display the ship.
One crazy thing I'd love to see on a Falcon kit is to open up all those blast deflector plates around the exhaust. They're obviously designed to move (isn't there a McQuarrie painting that shows them open?) and it would be a really cool way to display the ship.
crackerjazz
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Thanks, for those shots, nkg! Yeah, you're right about the shape. Man, I'm looking at all those details and I'm finding all the more reason for getting not just one kit. How I'd love to preserve one unbuilt. The parts look beautiful in their sprues. If only the price weren't so prohibitive.
Thanks, for those shots, nkg! Yeah, you're right about the shape. Man, I'm looking at all those details and I'm finding all the more reason for getting not just one kit. How I'd love to preserve one unbuilt. The parts look beautiful in their sprues. If only the price weren't so prohibitive.
Jaitea
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Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
Stevestarkiller (Stinson), mocked this up:
https://deeplyobsessed.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/full-reverse.html
J
Stevestarkiller (Stinson), mocked this up:
https://deeplyobsessed.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/full-reverse.html
J
Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
I suppose some shall drill a hole to this piece, to insert fiber, which should be one of the easiest and cheapest mod to do, especially if you are going to omit the landing mode leaving you with 4 spare LEDs with electronics.
The kit in its unbuilt state is like a museum of vintage kit parts.
I suppose some shall drill a hole to this piece, to insert fiber, which should be one of the easiest and cheapest mod to do, especially if you are going to omit the landing mode leaving you with 4 spare LEDs with electronics.
The kit in its unbuilt state is like a museum of vintage kit parts.
Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
I'm sort of vacillating between a purist ANH approach, and a kind of half-ass hybrid ANH/ESB approach. The latter would include all the changes between the films, except for the extra landing gear since that'd be difficult to pull off perfectly. I'm sure a lot of people will be doing this, since it basically would involve installing the external lighting and leaving the internal cockpit design.
However, I'm leaning towards the purist approach, since it is an ANH model: replacing the cockpit interior with an ANH full-sized set version, and not doing the lighting. Hrrrrm.
I'm sort of vacillating between a purist ANH approach, and a kind of half-ass hybrid ANH/ESB approach. The latter would include all the changes between the films, except for the extra landing gear since that'd be difficult to pull off perfectly. I'm sure a lot of people will be doing this, since it basically would involve installing the external lighting and leaving the internal cockpit design.
However, I'm leaning towards the purist approach, since it is an ANH model: replacing the cockpit interior with an ANH full-sized set version, and not doing the lighting. Hrrrrm.
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Jaitea
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Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
I would just leave it as it is....The original Falcon had no lights on her,....lights were only added in ESB for the headlight scene in the Asteroid cave/slug, & to match the full scale set piece with running lights & hull downlighters
Shes a smuggler ship, no need for fancy lights
For the 32" DeAgostini I'm gonna hide the headlights
J
I would just leave it as it is....The original Falcon had no lights on her,....lights were only added in ESB for the headlight scene in the Asteroid cave/slug, & to match the full scale set piece with running lights & hull downlighters
Shes a smuggler ship, no need for fancy lights
For the 32" DeAgostini I'm gonna hide the headlights
J
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Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
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Hunk a Junk
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Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
More CGI renderings, er, photos of actual product:
From here:
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/iakitoo/GALLERY/show_image.html?id=15552371&no=0
Note that only the first two rows of photos are Bandai 1:72. The third row is shots of a customized Bandai 1:144.
Other points of interest:
- The corridor has all kinds of brackets and crap used to hold up the LEDs for the backwall. If you want to model the corridor, you'll need to do some surgery.
- The backwall is lit by an interesting technique. It has two LEDs shining onto a white surface to illuminate the light bars, and the rest of the light is directed into the edge of the water-clear transparent plate. This lets the various light points illuminate.
- It also means it's quite a bummer that they chose not to use the same technique to make the sidewalls light up.
- The engine LEDs are cool white, and some of the others are neutral white.
More CGI renderings, er, photos of actual product:
From here:
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/iakitoo/GALLERY/show_image.html?id=15552371&no=0
Note that only the first two rows of photos are Bandai 1:72. The third row is shots of a customized Bandai 1:144.
Other points of interest:
- The corridor has all kinds of brackets and crap used to hold up the LEDs for the backwall. If you want to model the corridor, you'll need to do some surgery.
- The backwall is lit by an interesting technique. It has two LEDs shining onto a white surface to illuminate the light bars, and the rest of the light is directed into the edge of the water-clear transparent plate. This lets the various light points illuminate.
- It also means it's quite a bummer that they chose not to use the same technique to make the sidewalls light up.
- The engine LEDs are cool white, and some of the others are neutral white.
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