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What colour should the next Millennium Falcon be?  

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It's actually possible to recolor the thing by mass selecting all white/grey/dark grey bricks and coloring them, but the problem would be that many of the bits used in the hull plating are not available in tan or sand, thus unavailable in LDD.

Switch to Extended Mode - then you will be able to set any color you want.

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Switch to Extended Mode - then you will be able to set any color you want.

Oh.. I didn't know that, actually, nice :) But it wouldn't be buildable :(

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Where does the idea of white MF come from? I just don't get it. Even on the picture you attached it's more of gray (very light but hey... not white) And that picture is quite solitare, probably strangely enlightened but even so, go ahead and change the backhround from black to white and see what you get. Then tell me again that MF is white :D

Moreover, on the vast majority of pics, movie, or game, MF is indisputably light gray with some darker bits. Also look at gazzilions of model (kit or custom) rendition. Still solely gray. Yea, maybe a tiny bit lighter and a bit into sand color but...

I'm wondering how's come there even was a debate about which color is more accurate. It seems really odd to me.

I'd have noithing against such mod if you called it something like 'winter camouflage color sheme for MF'... But any claim that this is beating light gray in accuracy is divine :) Maybeeeee if lego white was something like sand-grayish-white but with current snow white (yeelowing with time) it seems nonsense to me.

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I don't understand the white Falcon argument either. I must have watched the movies hundreds of times as a kid and never once thought of it as being white.

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Where does the idea of white MF come from? I just don't get it. Even on the picture you attached it's more of gray (very light but hey... not white) And that picture is quite solitare, probably strangely enlightened but even so, go ahead and change the backhround from black to white and see what you get. Then tell me again that MF is white :D

Moreover, on the vast majority of pics, movie, or game, MF is indisputably light gray with some darker bits. Also look at gazzilions of model (kit or custom) rendition. Still solely gray. Yea, maybe a tiny bit lighter and a bit into sand color but...

I'm wondering how's come there even was a debate about which color is more accurate. It seems really odd to me.

I'd have noithing against such mod if you called it something like 'winter camouflage color sheme for MF'... But any claim that this is beating light gray in accuracy is divine :) Maybeeeee if lego white was something like sand-grayish-white but with current snow white (yeelowing with time) it seems nonsense to me.

Well, the whole point of (my side of) the argument was that the Falcon's color, on an RGB scale, is much closer to Lego White than it is to Lego Light Gray (and in fact it is a warm white with heavy weathering that makes it look drab rather than a coat of even cool light grey..) and as such it would be better represented with white brick with grey accents rather than grey with dark grey accents.

In response to the DB327 comment, here is the actual set, it's white:

A-New-Hope-build.jpg

For a better perspective, compare an early studio model of the Falcon to things like AT-ATs..

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Here are some shots of the Episode 7 filming model: https://mffanrodders...m-falcon-model/

star-wars-celebration-anaheim-2015-the-force-awakens-133.jpg

And this is a scene from Episode IV:

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I'm not saying the other view is wrong, this was just my attempt at showing what my idea looks like.

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For a better perspective, compare the studio model of the Falcon to things like AT-ATs..

I don't know... Mabe it's about everyones eyes but for me it looks that if there is something on that picture that could qualify for being white, than it's that R2-D2 in the back :D I agree that ATAT is more typical gray in this pic than MF is but still, far from being snow white. And that thing with being closer to white on RGB scale, I'm hard to believe that.

It should be more white to hide on the planet Hoth. Also it is a good starting point for a LEGO Friends version of the Falcon.

:D That's right indeed.

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Not sure what you meant but.. if it's not OK to request proper color representation in the LEGO models, then we can by all means go back to blue TIE Fighters and brown TIE Bombers..

Aren't we talking about LEGO versions of Star Wars, not exact replicas?The white version is closer to the studio models, therefore would be my preference if LEGO made 2 colours versions.

I imagine introducing a new colour is a pretty big deal for TLG, I doubt they'd do it so we could have an exactly coloured MF.

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Can someone please direct me to these "Brown Tie Bombers" I keep seeing people reference? lol

Regarding the Falcon, I too side with the light gray color for Lego. I think the movie shot of the Falcon conveys this the best. I would argue that it isn't Lego's job to produce a model that is most closely related to the studio model, but rather to produce what is most clearly seen in the film, as the appearance of these models can be heavily altered with the use of different filters during the filming process.

Even if one believes that lego should be reproducing the studio model, and perhaps the Studio model is a very dull white(I would still argue for gray), this aesthetic is unachievable by Lego, as the Lego white is very shiny and clean looking.

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Hi appiah4, I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to move several of the recent posts here that have been made in the 2015 Pictures and Rumours in an attempt to get it back on topic. Nice rendering, by the way! :classic: Oh, and personally I think it's grey...I had the original Kenner Falcon in a sort of 'off-white' and it didn't look right somehow!

I've tried, but I can't seem to add a poll via editing, and I didn't think of doing that while posting :( Maybe a mod can help..

I've added a poll as requested....over to everyone :wink:

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Personally i think White isn't the right color. But I used the file from the official sets topic and replaced all of the 199 "Dark Stone Grey" with 194 "Medium Stone Grey".

Then I replaced all the originally 194 "Medium Stone Grey" with 208 "Light Stone Grey".

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I think its a good compromise between white and Medium Grey dominant models.

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Can someone please direct me to these "Brown Tie Bombers" I keep seeing people reference? lol

http://alpha.brickli...ge?id=17809#T=I

The only lego version has 1 brown plate (dont know where its placed on the model, but i suspect in a visible place), some tan bits, and i personally think the old dark grey has a very slight brown tint (compared to new dark bley anyway)

Honestly, i dont see it either, if anything my complaint with pre-2006 Tie fighters is all the damn blue

Personally i think White isn't the right color. But I used the file from the official sets topic and replaced all of the 199 "Dark Stone Grey" with 194 "Medium Stone Grey".

Then I replaced all the originally 194 "Medium Stone Grey" with 208 "Light Stone Grey".

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I think its a good compromise between white and Medium Grey dominant models.

Is this the very light grey that people keep talking about (and which is very rare, and not all parts exist in)?

Looks good

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I'm sorry, but your white YT-1300 looks like it just came out of the Corellian factory. (I didn't know they still make them!) The Falcon is old and dirty and neither of the known owners were particularly gentle with her. It's an interesting experiment, but as shown above, without some grey wash to age it, it doesn't look right. Maybe if you reduce the amount of medium gray so it looks more like age and less like a striped paint job?I think that it's a perception issue: the gray makes the white look too bright and the pure white makes the gray look too dark. The tones are too dissimilar to look good.

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I think the Falcon looks best in grey, but the white version looks great too! I imagine it as another ship, perhaps for a professional shipper that cares more about his ship's appearance than its performance.

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OK, it definitely isn't white. Light differences simply highlight the fact it is extremely light in a grayish tan. Yes, it may be closer in RGB to white than light bluish gray, but Lego's bright as hell white doesn't do the ship justice for the fact it is supposed to be representing a 'trash can' of a ship that is old. Bright white doesn't portray that in any sense at all. Hence more than likely why they went with light bluish gray. Very light bluish gray probably would have been better, but they didn't.

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It's obviously bright purple, yeesh. :hmpf:

Seriously though, it only looks right in light gray. White is far too clean, and I have no idea how anyone could think it's blue and orange.

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