![]() Here's a shot with my 1:1 scale hand to show the size of the Falcon. It was then a long, slow process to do all the detailing. Ketzer described taking 2 big sheets to make the basic body shape, then attaching curved ribs for the curved hull section, then gluing down more "pizza slices" of styrene to form the curve. Then I built the upper gun disc, and taking a giant leap, decided to do the whole ship. I thought it came out pretty well, so I continued with the other one. 010" sheet styrene, and a lot of trial and error. I used the photos I took in D.C., plus whatever else I could find on the net, and built one of the "endcaps" of the Falcon's docking arms. I took close to 70 pictures just of the Falcon that day.Ī couple of months went by and I decided I'd test my scratchbuilding skills. I believe this was around 1997, and they had so much amazing stuff on display! But the high point of the exhibit (for me) was the original 5 foot ILM Falcon!! It was under a tremendous glass case. and I took a 3 hour ride up there with my wife to check it out. I was living near Norfolk, VA at the time the very first Magic of Myth exhibition took place in Washington, D.C. after all, I was a grownup by this point. I began to wonder if I could do something like that. I was totally blown away by his model! I had done some small mods to models before, and had read about scratchbuilding, but I just stared at the pics/build logs on Mr. ![]() With the internet came a slew of reference for sci-fi models, and for the Falcon I came across a site by Tim Ketzer, showing how he scratchbuilt his own version of the 32" ILM model. For the past six years Greg Dietrich, Jake Polatty, and a group of fellow Star Wars fans have been building a blinking, bleeping, insanely detailed full size version of the Millennium Falcon's. ![]() The "soft" molded-on detail, the too-high sidewalls and proportionally narrow cockpit tube, things like that. Those of you familiar with the kit know its issues, I'm sure. As more reference of the ILM studio models became available, I got more dissatisfied with the A/E Falcon. Over the years I couldn't tell you how many of the old AMT/ERTL Falcons I built, improving my skills with each one, trying new paint techniques, etc., but as I got older, I slowly came to realize that little kit had many shortcomings. For the past six years Greg Dietrich, Jake Polatty, and a group of fellow Star Wars fans have been building a blinking, bleeping, insanely detailed full size version of. Anyway, Firstsonofsolo has been by my place a couple of times, and he said I should post this. I could've sworn I had posted this here before, but it didn't come up when I did a search.
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