Yeah, nice haul!
Is the Sealab partially built? Or is it all original?
Is the Sealab partially built? Or is it all original?
An RPF Open Source 5 ft Millennium Falcon Build/Reference Thread. All Are Welcome
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Sealab is partially built. However it has quite a few pieces I need still on the sprue. It will get me through until the reissue.
So looking at the Sealab I now realize these are two seperate pieces. Are the long straight pieces some type of t molding or a part from a kit?
I've always thought that was the same plastruct T beam that was used on the gun platform windows.
Awesome find. When I get home from the museum I’ll see if I can pick up those numbers.
It certainly appears that way. I have been using Tt gauge model railroad track on this Falcon section.
S gauge “American Flyer“ and HO gauge work in other Falcon areas with even some O gauge “Lionel” track in T-rail and I -beam locations if the correct styrene structural shape does not fit your needs.
Junk Pilot
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That's a great video and it also confirms how ILM referred to the Falcon sizes as well. I recall reading somewhere that the Falcons were referred to as the "4ft" and "2ft" Falcons by ILM. In the video Adam talks about the "3ft" Falcon (referring to the 32in model) and moments later Lorne calls it the "2ft" Falcon, pretty much confirming the size was based on the size of the acrylic domes used for the main hull of both models.
Yes, that's correct in the ILM terminology for the sizing of the Falcon miniatures.
I was corrected recently by someone in the know, to how the Falcon miniatures were described, with what I & others call the 5 footer, is actually the 4 foot model & the 32" ESB Falcon miniature is the 2 foot model.
All goes off the dish size, not length!.
Stu
I was corrected recently by someone in the know, to how the Falcon miniatures were described, with what I & others call the 5 footer, is actually the 4 foot model & the 32" ESB Falcon miniature is the 2 foot model.
All goes off the dish size, not length!.
Stu
Bjorn
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Necronaut, those drawings originated here from members of RPF
This may have been answered someplace in this 114 page thread, but I haven't found it. Has this part been ID'd? It's on the aft of the lower gun platform beside the Fujimi Panther B71. To me this looks like a 4.8mm strip with a little bit on top, but looking through the various kits used on both gun platforms, I don't see anything that resembles that bit. Any hints?
thanks
thanks
It's the Fujimi Halftrack. Part #26. I colored it on my map, but didn't label it. I'll fix that.
Oh!. Great. thanks.
Revised map is now on the drive.
And the bit just behind the gun mount? (just behind the 84 label) It's red, so I'm also assuming it's the half track?
That's the Fujimi M36 Jackson. Man who did these maps? He should be fired.
So one last comment/question on the lower gun platform and I'll hopefully leave it be
On the Bandai kit, there's a 'spikey-bit' just to the port of the actual gun mount. It's sort-of-kinda visible on the photo references of the filming model, but there are not a lot of good shots of the lower platform. Anyway, as near as I can tell, that part is the Fujimi M36 Jackson, part B15.
[edit] - Also this assumes Bandai got it right and this wasn't an ESB add on. I've found quite a lot of extra, missing, and incorrectly sized parts on that kit, so it could be just a Bandai kit thing.
On the Bandai kit, there's a 'spikey-bit' just to the port of the actual gun mount. It's sort-of-kinda visible on the photo references of the filming model, but there are not a lot of good shots of the lower platform. Anyway, as near as I can tell, that part is the Fujimi M36 Jackson, part B15.
[edit] - Also this assumes Bandai got it right and this wasn't an ESB add on. I've found quite a lot of extra, missing, and incorrectly sized parts on that kit, so it could be just a Bandai kit thing.
