Model Build: A Ship that can do the Kessel Run in 12 par-secs

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Vasil Nikolov

"You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs."

―Han Solo

Yess! it is finally here! The time to build it has arrived and is now being initiated. The Corellian YT-1300 light freighter is probably one of the most known models and I have finally started to build it.

So let us start here! Yes, this is the body of the falcon. My idea was to make the main body first, then add sides and port holes and finally engines and some other bits. The most detail would be given to the top and back as they would be the main views seen by the camera in the animation. Meanwhile, the bottom would be more reliant on the textures.

Making the main fuselgae was a surprising doddle. I used a cylinder, which was then made slightly thinner and then stretched. The top and bottom were then made by cutting 75% of a sphere and then stretching it onto the main body. Once it looked nice, the same 25% were duplicated and rotated at 180 degrees. While this may be counted as a simple choice, it did save me time from re-creating the bottom. This was followed by a cube being stretched and then angled and mirrored. And hey presto, the middle front bit is created. A copy of the cube was then re-molded into the two sides that act as the main lights of the falcon.

Following this, a single cylinder was stretched in the middle of the fuselage and christened to be the upper and bottom turret.

The turret itself was consisted of 2 cubes and 12 cylinders in total. It was necessary to be detailed as possible, as this way, the Falcon would look good in the close-up scenes of the animation.