Logo
scale modeling database | stash manager
johnnyutica
John Hoffmann (johnnyutica)
US

Millennium Falcon

Comments

16 July 2018, 19:08
Ingo F
Awesome build! 👍 Love this laser hit marks. Very impressive.
16 July 2018, 21:16
Scott Hastings
Looks great!!!
16 July 2018, 21:19
Spanjaard
looking good!
17 July 2018, 21:01
Zsolt Czegle
Awesome! The Force is with you!
22 July 2018, 09:33
Konrad -
Really cool build mate! The pics are awesome too 👍
22 July 2018, 10:37
Spanjaard
those last pictures are very cool!
22 July 2018, 10:38
Glenn
Nice work!
22 July 2018, 10:56
John Hoffmann
Thanks, all! Really enjoyed this, and not just because I'm a SW fan. Especially at this scale, the Falcon is a huge canvas for weathering. I'm still mulling adding a bit more. The actual model used for filming has more grime and streaking but fewer of the tricks we scale modelers use to make a miniature object look real, such as the shading and highlighting used to represent shadows and relief detail. That's partly because the prop model was 5 feet long and would always be lit in ways that showed the detail and made it look more real. What passes for reference pics are scenes from the movies, which means they are shot, lit, or filtered in ways that generally lessen the prominence of the weathering, aside from some closeups of the partial set of the ship when docked. So what I was going for was a level of weathering that conjured up the Falcon as my eye remembers it from the movies in this smaller scale but on closer inspection could still inspire memorable movie quotes such as "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought."
23 July 2018, 14:21
Spanjaard
i have seen the 1m size one live... i and i can tell you have done a really good job 🙂
23 July 2018, 17:21
Glenn
John, I think it looks fine! You don't want to over do it! 🙂
24 July 2018, 00:16
Jozef Goos
looking ver good nice job
24 July 2018, 12:54
John Hoffmann
Thanks, and yes, after a few days of just looking at it (and NOT zooming it around the living room when no one was around) I think if I add anything it will be very minor and subtle.
24 July 2018, 21:40
Peter Hardy
Most impressive young Hoffman!
24 July 2018, 22:13
Spanjaard
zoom a bit , even if there is somebody around! you earned it 🙂
24 July 2018, 22:32
Glenn
I hope all that zooming around included at least a few laser "pew pews"!😉
The larger Hasbro one I'm "slowly" working on will include a built in mp3 player with a 6 inch sub with some custom sound bytes that i have remixed to include the engine noise some laser fire and the jump to hyperspace! 🙂
See "My Albums" section
25 July 2018, 00:09
Peter Hardy
Just big kids, that's all ya are!!! 🙂
25 July 2018, 00:16
Glenn
I'm NOT a kid..... I'm a Kidult! so there!
25 July 2018, 02:34
Spanjaard
only difference between adults and kids is .... the price of toys. specially true in modelling 😄 😄 it was so cheap when i was a child 😄 😄
25 July 2018, 08:48
Peter Hardy
Sushhhhhhhh! Mrs Hardy is in the room.
25 July 2018, 08:52

Album info

Work-in-progress pics of Bandai 1/72 Perfect Grade MF

12 images
1:72
Completed
1:72 Millennium Falcon (Bandai 0216384-40000)
CEC YT-1300 Millennium Falcon
Associated to the Rebel Alliance
Corellian Light Freighter YT-1300F (Han Solo)
 

All albums

View all albums »