Falcons of all Sizes

Hey everyone, sorry for the long delay between posts, but I'm ready to get back to the action here! There are many Falcons in my life right now and I wanted to share some of the other things I have going on.

I was able to attend Star Wars Celebration in Orlando this year and met a few random awesome people.  One of the people I spoke at length with was Lee Malone who really faithfully recreated the 5 foot filming miniature of the Millennium Falcon.

This thing really looked incredible, and it was awesome to hear a bit about his process of tracking down the kit parts and decals. I've been lucky to have seen the real miniature and this is as close as anyone's going to get to the real thing.  There are more build photos on his Rogue Studio Productions Facebook page so be sure to check it out!

I've also been hard at work on a couple practical Falcon models of my own.  First this mini Bandai kit.

I had a lot of fun with this thing.  The engineering of how it all fit together without any glue was really incredible and the level of detail was really amazing for how small it is.  It was interesting trying to do weathering on something so tiny but I'm pretty happy with the results.

I also started assembling the DeAgostini Millennium Falcon which, finally after 2 years of monthly shipments I have all the parts to.  For those who don't know this is a pretty good replica of the 3 foot filming miniature that was built for ESB.  It's going to be a lot of work to paint it up nice and I'd like to make some improvements to the interior but it's been really fun assembling the exterior so far!  Here are some photos of my progress.

 

It was really interesting building this thing because I'm definitely more familiar with the 5 foot filming miniature so it was cool to see the details on this thing and how they're similar but very different.  It all felt so alien!  It's still an amazing model.  The size and heft of it is pretty impressive (it has an aluminum frame!)

ANYWAY, I'm rendering some images of the mandibles as I type this so another post should be on the way tonight.  Sorry again for the long wait, and as always, thanks for reading!