Jaws Part III: Upper Jaw

The Falcon's upper jaw is one of the more detailed parts of the miniature, with many kitbashed model parts as well as a lot of brass tubing bent into an array of pipes.  In my opinion it's one of the more memorable and iconic parts of the ship.  Here are some renders of my Falcon's upper jaw:

 

 

The beauty  renders above contain a mistake on the upper jaw that I corrected for the part map below.  If you can spot it, let me know in the comments below!  I don't have a prize to offer but you would get extra credit toward your final grade!

As you can see, there were a lot of kits used in this area.  Most of the larger pieces are from various tanks but there is a good amount of parts from the Ferrari 312B kit sprinkled throughout.  I think my favorite pieces to model were the two missile tubes from the M36 Jackson kit.

Here's a render of our progress:

Thanks for reading! 

Next time: Forward Lower Access Pits!

Jaws Part II: Lower Jaw

With the inside of the jaws finished let's move on to the lower jaw greebles, the Millennium Falcon's goatee if you will.  Here's a render of the Falcon's lower jaw:

The lower jaw has a big landing gear box in the middle of it which splits the greebles into two groups one toward the front and another toward the back.

I had to take some artistic license with my build because my landing gear box layout favors the set blueprint from The Empire Strikes Back so there is actually a missing greeble on my model that I wasn't able to fit.  It's a part from the Tamiya 1:35 Kampfwagen Ausf. F/G.  A couple of other greebles in this area also come from that kit.  You can see it in this image:

Here is the part map for the lower jaw:

And as always here's a render of our progress so far:

The front is starting to take shape down here!  Thanks for reading!  I'll be covering the upper jaw very soon!