Full Scale ESB Falcon

off-and-on I've been working on this new version of the Falcon, accurate to the fullscale prop used in Empire Strikes Back...




update with some more details

a little bit more...

How's My Driving?

got into a discussion about the visibility of the Falcon's mandibles through the cockpit window. You can't see them in any of the shots in the movies, but if the camera were further forward you would be able to. Just take a look at this image from inside the cockpit of the fullscale Falcon built for Empire.

User Wavey on the RPF said that it "would be hazardous pulling out on to the interstellar highway." I came to the conclusion that the Falcon needs this bumper sticker...

oh the fun we have...

Hoth Scanner

bit of a change of pace. Working on some printable parts for Han's Hoth Scanner for a client.

Imperial Star Destroyer (WIP)

Impressive... most impressive...

Built from blueprints and a photomatched matte painting.

 

 

More Falcon Cockpit Parts

it never ends

It may not look like much...

but it's got it where it counts.

This may not look a whole lot different from the last render I posted of the Falcon's ESB interior, but believe me, there's a lot of new work in there. Those two lower panels on Chewie's side are now reasonably complete. One or two greebles I had to mostly guess, but on the whole it's fairly accurate to the real deal.

only 7,048,426 parts to go!

Falcon Cockpit, ESB (part 3)

Progress has expanded into the rest of the interior....

Falcon Cockpit, ESB (part 2)

Added the volvo dashboard parts on the side panels there, photomatched in sketchup from some nice close-ups found of the same part on the sides of Han's block of frozen carbonite.

 

 

Falcon Cockpit, ESB

I seem to be converting the details on my ANH cockpit, to the ESB cockpit...

so many details. Don't I always say that?

Echo Base Rough

Just fooling around with a few models... The X-Wing, the Falcon, and all the background elements are mine, but the snowspeeders were downloaded from the sketchup warehouse for a quick preview. The space is based on the blueprints of the Elstree Sound Stage where the interior sets of Echo Base were constructed. The extended space beyond the berths (second picture right-hand) is a rough extension of the large matte paintings that were used in those areas on the sounds stage to imply a larger space.