LEGO Setmod/Custom Hybrid Mini Millennium Falcon: A LEGO® creation by Brian Tobin : MOCpages.com

LEGO Setmod/Custom Hybrid Mini Millennium Falcon

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My first Mini work online. Of course, it had to be the Falcon. I call it a hybrid because the official set was nothing more than a provider of some nice printed pieces and a vague template of structure. For the most part, it's my own take.

About this creation

The only mini-scale work I had doen before this was slight tweaks of offcial Mini sets (X and Y-wings and each TIE variant). For the Falcon, it was quickly apparent that only a ground-up reworking could hope to bring the ship in line with the "real" Falcon's proportions, difficult as they are at any size, but especially in this small scale. Overall, I think I got it relatively close...or at least closer!

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Side Overhead Angle, giving a good view of the general proportions.

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Front overhead. Those brutal massive mandibles on the official set (3 studs wide, I think) were so easy to slim down to the right pieces, the old classic space wings...why didn't they just do this?

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The cockpit side. A bit blocky behind the cone piece, but It was the best way I could think of to orient the cockpit properly.

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Rear side angle. I was concerned about the sightlines looking good (or at least acceptable) from every angle (or at least more than one)! This is always the biggest issue in LEGO, or any rendering.

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Rear Overhead without flash, giving a nice effect. The Saucer piece works great, placing the rear heat dispersion ports (or whatever they are) in about the right place relative to the rear edge of the ship.

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Another Angle that works surprisingly well. It seems like there aren't any parallel lines on the entire ship. It's what makes ILM's original design so compelling, but also so hard to make in LEGO!

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Underside view. This angle is OK...at least it shows the lower radar dish piece with quadgun emplacement...well, ok, uni-stickshift emplacement...(again, it seems like this could/should have easily been incorporated in the official set).

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Straight-on view, similar to the view of the ship being drawn into Death Star bay 327. The ship is a tad too "fat," but overall I was able to keep the cokpit at the right height in comparison to the other landmark structures.

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Higher forward angle. The communication dish should actually be slightly more to the left and rear, but since that would put in on top of the 8x printed dish piece, oh well...

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Rear angle, showing the lit engine matrix. I don't usually include engine glow with transparent pieces on my customs, but it looks cool with it (and, honestly in this case, brutal without it)!