Millennium Falcon (Ralph McQuarrie Concept Version)

[Jaitea]

Oh no!!.... not another Millennium Falcon.....

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My plan is to make modifications to this poor kit to make it similar in style to the late Ralph McQuarrie's concept art of the Millennium Falcon:

That is about all the images I can find of this version, a CG artist called Taranis had started making a CG render of the craft:

His blog:
http://taraniscgi.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/ralph-mcquarrie´s-star-war-millennium-falcon-concept-design-update/

I want to keep going with my MPC kit for another while, I'll slow down & hopefully give both kits equal time.

John

 

[Junkie]

Great idea! This will be cool man. Real cool.

 

[TRM]

Sweet !!! Looking forward to it!!

 

[Eastrock]

always love to see a falcon to fly at light speed

 

[nicholassagan]

Very cool mod planned...this will be interesting to see how it shapes up!

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Ohh this should be interesting... I'm sure that you'll have alot of fun shaving the details off the kit!

 

[Rolling Thunder]

You know nothing happened that day when justin bieber is on the front page.

 

[JohnSimmons]

Yes!! I've been thinking about doing this myself actually, but I'm glad a far superior builder like yourself J is taking on the task ;D can't wait to see what you do with it.

 

[Glorfindel]

Oh' neat! I like the way the cockpit connects better then the real thing. Can't wait to see it come together.

 

[Jaitea]

Thanks guys, John S, you should go ahead and make one, because of the lack of reference material it would be interesting to see another's interpretation.......& I'm the novice here

I know I said I wasn't going to start this yet, but I couldn't help myself......LrdSatyr8 this plastic is pretty soft, it didnt take me too long to get to this......made a bit of a mess though

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Looking at the reference photos I really think the hull curvature needs attention.

John

 

[Grendels]

It looks like you are going to have to rebuild half of the ship to meet the concept photos. Will be watching this!

 

[Quaralane]

Have fun removing all of that detail.
Looks like McQuarrie's version was actually fairly clean

 

[The Model Dude]

It will be nice to see how you alter the design, and educational to a beginner such as myself!

 

[TRM]

Let the fun begin!!! ;D

 

[Solander]

Cool! Have never seen one of these built - will be watching for sure.

 

[adampolo13]

Can't go wrong with a M.F. build! Nice choice!

 

[JohnSimmons]

Any progress on this mate?

 

[Biskup]

I just want to ask how is this kit?
What I mean is it accurate to the original?? And does it go well together or will there be a lot of sanding and filling?
Cheers

 

[nicholassagan]

wow! look at that! she cleans up nicely!!

 

[Quaralane]

Definitely interesting to see that hull bare of detail like that