The Naked Silo

This is the final (ship construction) part of my quest to see what the Millennium Falcon might have looked like when it was a brand new, factory stock ship (I still have to build the "showroom" she'll be displayed in). There have been illustrations and models of these built by others, but I wanted to build my own interpretation. It was sad to see all the beautiful molded details the ship is known for go away (through scraping, filing, and sanding) but it was a fun challenge to smooth it out and "restore" it to its factory specs...and I like the results. Starboard docking ring. I used some wheel parts from the dragster donor kits to replace the super-greeblied kit parts. My idea here was to have something simple, clean, yet functional-looking; I didn't want just a flat wall with a door. Port docking ring. I guess how these "original" docking rings might work is the ship connects to another ship (or space station, what have you) a...

To find out more about my methodology and why I'm building this particular model in this particular way, please read  PART ONE . To see the early stages of this project where I scrape, file, and sand off most of the kit's beautiful details, please read  PART TWO . Rear end with grill. Now, that grill didn't appear onscreen until the 1997 Special Edition of  Star Wars , whereas, before, the model had a simple rectangular piece of translucent white plastic (below) to represent the massive power of the engines and the ship wasn't seen from behind when the engines weren't active. I'm not sure, but this may have been about the time the model kits started including the grill because the original MPC kit  or the later AMT/ERTL kit only had transparent plastic (to allow for lighting to be installed) for the engine area. Original studio model: internal lighting, but no grill. I'm not going to be including the grill partly because it's ...