[MOD] LL 10179 - Corellian YT-1300f light freighter

[BeO]

Hello Space enthusiasts!

Here's a MOD I've been working on for quite a while. It started out as a regular 10179 UCS Millennium Falcon Bricklink project, but turned into something a bit different somewhere along the way. 

LL10179_001 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

LL10179_004 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

LL10179_c02 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

LL10179_036 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

LL10179_m04 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

LL10179_s04 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

 

For more pictures, and my comments on some of the details on the ship, follow this link to my Flickr page for the model: LL 10179 on Flickr

I hope you'll like it. Comments are more than welcome :) 

 

Edited September 9, 2018 by BeO

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Wow this is huge!

If there had been a set like this in 1978 I would have become crazy!

[Trekkie99]

 Woah, thats pretty dope! 

[Bob De Quatre]

Hi @BeO,

Eurobricks doesn't host pictures, but since you're using Flickr, you can follow this guide to learn how to embed pictures from Flickr in your posts. (the guide is a bit old but still applies)

 

[BeO]

Thanks @Bob De Quatre, appreciate it  Will give it a shot!

 

[bondp99]

Wow! Impressive 

[Mattallica]

Cool

[Wolfhammer]

Impressive Moc,Really cool.

 

[Wolfhammer]

Impressive,really sweet Moc.

[CaptainSerMig]

On 9/8/2018 at 6:16 PM, BeO said:

Hello Space enthusiasts!

Here's a MOD I've been working on for quite a while. It started out as a regular 10179 UCS Millennium Falcon Bricklink project, but turned into something a bit different somewhere along the way. 

LL10179_001 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

LL10179_004 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

LL10179_c02 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

LL10179_036 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

LL10179_m04 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

LL10179_s04 by BeO Johansson, on Flickr

 

For more pictures, and my comments on some of the details on the ship, follow this link to my Flickr page for the model: LL 10179 on Flickr

I hope you'll like it. Comments are more than welcome :) 

 

This MOD is so awesome!!

I think you should make some custom engraved 1x4 or 1x6 bricks with LL 10179 on them, in the style of the ones from LL 918, 924, 928

[ikba]

Amazing! The tail-fin in the last picture is the perfect touch

[BeO]

On 9/16/2018 at 7:32 PM, CaptainSerMig said:

This MOD is so awesome!!

I think you should make some custom engraved 1x4 or 1x6 bricks with LL 10179 on them, in the style of the ones from LL 918, 924, 928

Yes that's in the pipeline. Will try the easiest way first, Dymo-tape  I have it printed now, white text on clear tape, but haven't gotten around to trimming it to the pieces yet. Will probably look like sh- ... eh, not good at all 

[BeO]

Quite surprised to find The Brothers Brick also feature MODs, but I don't mind   (are they lowering their standards?  )

LL 10179 on TBB

 

[Aanchir]

Very cool MOC! Though, I do think the balance of the colors somewhat detracts from the "Classic Space" aesthetic, particularly how little grey there is. I wonder if it might look better with the "pizza slices" in grey to better evoke the wedge-shaped wings of Classic Space vehicles and to better contrast with the main circular section in blue.

Bonus points for the Classic Space style droid and yellow spaceman taking the place of R2-D2 and C-3PO!

[BeO]

16 hours ago, Aanchir said:

Very cool MOC! Though, I do think the balance of the colors somewhat detracts from the "Classic Space" aesthetic, particularly how little grey there is. I wonder if it might look better with the "pizza slices" in grey to better evoke the wedge-shaped wings of Classic Space vehicles and to better contrast with the main circular section in blue.

 

A valid point, and something I thought about as well. I did several versions of the ship in Stud.io before settling for this one. If you look at the three classic ships, 918, 924 and 928, you see that horizontal surfaces are gray and vertical surfaces are blue, in general. There are exceptions of course :)  And when I applied that to the Falcon, it looked like the Star Wars Falcon with blue details. Not very inspiring at all. So I simply inverted the colour scheme, horizontal surfaces blue and vertical surfaces gray. Again, in general :)  So there is an idea behind the way it looks, not just blue added everywhere  

I did try out adding more gray on top, but the visual shape of the Falcon was lost when doing so which I didn't like at all.

Also, there's quite a few examples of mainly blue vehicles in the Classic Space theme later on, mid-80s, like 6951 and 6985. So I'm not too far off if one look at the Classic Space theme in general and not just pre-1980  I decided pretty early on to not limit myself to the first CS-years, so you can find quite a few details on my ship that I've borrowed from various Classic Space sets, also later ones. The design for the robot for example is from a pretty rare set, 1968, from 1985.

But I do value your input, I'm always open to suggestions and new ideas :)