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An RPF Open Source 5 ft Millennium Falcon Build/Reference Thread. All Are Welcome
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Thanks. I heard 10" on center might work a little better.
Just a few more.
EDIT: I just found a better shot of it. That can't be it, unless it's an older kit like the 1962 version of that other one earlier...
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Aurora Saratoga/Forrestal maybe?
Nope. Deceptive pic makes them look flat.
Yours does look flat in that scan, doesn’t it?
This is all I could come up with so far, and none of them are right. Im guessing these are ladders in the kits?
In the Nichimo Ise kit: Part #48 (back side of sprue) from the Ise only has 6 “rungs”.
Whereas the part on the Falcon radar base looks like it has 15 rungs on the top two pieces, and 17 rungs on the bottom two pieces. Double check me please! Lost count a couple times. Starts getting blurry every time when your count starts getting to the end going top to bottom. LOL!
I checked quite a few kits that I have here and one of them, which is not a donor to this (as far as I know), is the Nichimo 1:200 Shiranu. Part # 22 & 23 come darned close at 14 rungs, but they’re too tall. Then that kit has a couple other parts #’s 73, 74, and 75 which are similar, but don’t have enough “rungs.”
The 1/500 Ise I have is the 1980 #U-5009. Maybe we need to find an older one? The 1/200 Shiranu is a 1976 #U-2014, not that it makes a difference. And as far as I can see, I don’t see a 1/200 Ise anywhere on the intranets. It’s probably right in front of my face here somewhere… as usual. Haha! Or it’s an older version of the Ise, which I don’t have on hand.
But as far as I can see with the actual Falcon parts we’re looking for, all those parts are shorter than the HP 0/400 piece. And the closest ones I show here are taller than the 0/400 piece.
Ise part # 48, back side on sprue. The part has a bend in it:
And the parts I see in the Shiranu kit: especially #22 and 23, but they are taller than the HP 0/400 piece and don’t have enough “rungs” on them. Plus 73,74, and 75 in the kit, but none of these are right either.
Anyways, it’s all about the effort! Haha! Too much effort I say for these darned little things! LOL
In the Nichimo Ise kit: Part #48 (back side of sprue) from the Ise only has 6 “rungs”.
Whereas the part on the Falcon radar base looks like it has 15 rungs on the top two pieces, and 17 rungs on the bottom two pieces. Double check me please! Lost count a couple times. Starts getting blurry every time when your count starts getting to the end going top to bottom. LOL!
I checked quite a few kits that I have here and one of them, which is not a donor to this (as far as I know), is the Nichimo 1:200 Shiranu. Part # 22 & 23 come darned close at 14 rungs, but they’re too tall. Then that kit has a couple other parts #’s 73, 74, and 75 which are similar, but don’t have enough “rungs.”
The 1/500 Ise I have is the 1980 #U-5009. Maybe we need to find an older one? The 1/200 Shiranu is a 1976 #U-2014, not that it makes a difference. And as far as I can see, I don’t see a 1/200 Ise anywhere on the intranets. It’s probably right in front of my face here somewhere… as usual. Haha! Or it’s an older version of the Ise, which I don’t have on hand.
But as far as I can see with the actual Falcon parts we’re looking for, all those parts are shorter than the HP 0/400 piece. And the closest ones I show here are taller than the 0/400 piece.
Ise part # 48, back side on sprue. The part has a bend in it:
And the parts I see in the Shiranu kit: especially #22 and 23, but they are taller than the HP 0/400 piece and don’t have enough “rungs” on them. Plus 73,74, and 75 in the kit, but none of these are right either.
Anyways, it’s all about the effort! Haha! Too much effort I say for these darned little things! LOL
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Let's pray so.... I'm shipped out! Haha! The Goose will be chasing me in a minute!
Updated this one with the missing Monogram piece. Thanks JS.
Added a missing piece to this one.
manugu
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Hi John, I have kit 104 still as Fujimi Iowa, but I guess all parts formerly from that kit could also be substituted from 103 and 104 is now Monogram Panzerkampfwagen IV as in the map above - correct? Just checking
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Yes. I ran out of numbers and realized I had the three ships that were the same kit.Hi John, I have kit 104 still as Fujimi Iowa, but I guess all parts formerly from that kit could also be substituted from 103 and 104 is now Monogram Panzerkampfwagrn VI as in the map above - correct? Just checking
Haha John! That was fast. WOW... Manugu! LOL
I think I found the missing radar dish leg pieces:
These four guys must come from the original vintage Nichimo 1/500 Ise ship, and not the new/reboxed one that is also boxed as the Hyuga:
You want the kit on bottom, not the one on top.
The instructions for the vintage kit look like this:
and if you look closely, you'll notice that in a separate bag you get a different set of microgreeblies (on separate black sprue, not grey) than what you get in the modern boxings:
I'm fairly confident that the 4 pieces you're looking for are "2 tall" and "2 short" pieces from Parts #122.
And of course, I say "fairly confident" because my kit came with everything EXCEPT these pieces, so I don't have them to photograph and compare and count 17 ladder rungs on, but I know they are in the black sprue separate baggie by comparison to the modern kit, and because part #50 was the mystery greeblie that evaded me for years on the Y-Wing wing subassembly. And they look to be around the right size, in comparison with part #50 which is only about 4.5mm tall.
Anyway, that's my theory. Anyone who's built one want to confirm or deny?
These four guys must come from the original vintage Nichimo 1/500 Ise ship, and not the new/reboxed one that is also boxed as the Hyuga:
You want the kit on bottom, not the one on top.
The instructions for the vintage kit look like this:
and if you look closely, you'll notice that in a separate bag you get a different set of microgreeblies (on separate black sprue, not grey) than what you get in the modern boxings:
I'm fairly confident that the 4 pieces you're looking for are "2 tall" and "2 short" pieces from Parts #122.
And of course, I say "fairly confident" because my kit came with everything EXCEPT these pieces, so I don't have them to photograph and compare and count 17 ladder rungs on, but I know they are in the black sprue separate baggie by comparison to the modern kit, and because part #50 was the mystery greeblie that evaded me for years on the Y-Wing wing subassembly. And they look to be around the right size, in comparison with part #50 which is only about 4.5mm tall.
Anyway, that's my theory. Anyone who's built one want to confirm or deny?
Thanks so much for the effort. Hopefully this is it. I'm thinking so, as this kit is mentioned on several different maps from different builders.
Hopefully someone will have a pic.
Hopefully someone will have a pic.
Only pic I could find. LOL
manugu
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Dang, I should have read Maruskas blog more carefully (there’s also an awesome new post from last month btw I just saw yesterday, go read, it’s worth it !)
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Thank you Read!
