Millennium Falcon

[dhanners]

Speaking of "Star Wars".....

This is my build of Shunichi Makino's Millennium Falcon. It is a well-designed kit and a relatively easy. I shrunk the original model to 80 percent and it works out to about 1/96th scale, a good scale fore space modeling.

I followed the clear instructions, but deviated in a couple of areas. Instead of using the supplied round "rectenna" dish -- knocked off by Lando when he flew through the Death Star in the Battle of Endor -- I scratchbuilt the new, rectangular version and its support structure out of gray card. I used online references and guesstimated the size. (In a bit of "Star Wars" trivia, I discovered the MF's new rectenna was scavenged from the CR90 corvette, otherwise known as the Rebel Blockade Runner. Speaking of which, it would be cool to have a good card model of that....)

I thought of using wire or solder to replicate the surface plumbing but stuck with paper. I laminated a double thickness of gray cardstock and cut it into very thin strips, and bent them to shape and glued them on. In this scale, it looks ok.

 

[zathros]

Whoa!! You greebled that beauty to life!! Those closeups show excellent seams. Nice job on the antennae, a lot of people had problems with that, yours look s just right. The back of the antennae looks so robust. Excellent craftsmanship!

 

[dhanners]

Here is the back of the antenna:

 

[zathros]

That looks like it could take a beating, especially as it was intended to take atmospheric re-entry and flight.

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

You did a FANTASTIC JOB on this model! I really like the detail that you put into it!

 

[Revell-Fan]

Absolutely amazing work! I'm thinking of building an enlarged version with lots and lots and lots of greeblies. And lights. And sound. The Revell kit comes with a very nice sound module that could do the job; maybe new speakers, who knows.

 

[dhanners]

Absolutely amazing work! I'm thinking of building an enlarged version with lots and lots and lots of greeblies. And lights. And sound. The Revell kit comes with a very nice sound module that could do the job; maybe new speakers, who knows.

I think this model would scale up well. If you printed out multiple copies, you could add plenty of 3D detail. You could even apply individual appliqué panels. At 1/96th scale, I thought it might be overkill, or at least bad for my aging eyes. As it was, I wanted to detail the ends of the cannons -- mine don't look accurate -- but didn't. Maybe Rey has upgraded the Falcon with different guns....

 

[zathros]

When you can take pictures of details that close, that much bigger than life, and it still looks excellent, you have achieved your goal with flying colors.

 

[spaceagent-9]

Really admire the job you did on this. Should be the greebled of the month or something! Inspiring!