Deciding the colour of the still unnamed ship was hard. Took a lot of thought and try to find reasons for and against certain colors.
I found an image online from TFA and started altering and adding colors.
I have seen the Stellar Envoy and I like the big painted rings on its top half. So I went with that.


My thoughts went a bit like this...

The Falcon has some red hullplates. And somewhere in the galaxy there is a scrapyard with a scrapped and destroyed red-coloured YT-1300, missing a few hullplates. Maybe I should build THAT particular YT-1300. I really like that idea for a diorama and a build. Great chance for weathering and to build a story around the ship. Something like Rey living in an fallen AT-AT.
But. Maybe some other time. Maybe for my next Millennium Falcon build.

The original in grey is a bit boring. I want color.
Yellow, is too vivid. I love yellow but its not for this ship.
Red, is blood somehow, too angry, and I can't see the ship in red.
Blue, is the same colour as the engine exhaust/light. Too much blue.
I really like Stellar Envoy, but it's already made. And I guess I have to make a lot of research to make it a true S.E. Maybe read StarWars novels. I have no time for that. :-)

So only green is left.
I like the more vivid green better. It pops a bit more than the dull green.
I picture the diorama where the finished ship will rest to be a bit inspired by the autumn. Red and orange in its colours. Right now I'm thinking red/orange cliffs (which will also exclude a red ship. Too much red.) with a landing pad in the middle and city buildings surrounding it. A bit like Docking Bay 94 in Mos Eisley.
But it will still be a hunk of junk. No change in that.

And there is a white crescent moon around the quadlaser. That's where the build got its name from. The ships real name I don't know yet.

G'day @Lundin ,
Terrific concept and execution so far ( hold area ) . Will follow your build with great interest . Thanks for sharing .

Cheers Ged

With the last post I am up to date with my backlog of material.
From now on I will add new photos and ramble on depending on the progress of my build.

Great idea with the diorama, should look great when finished

Very nice work, love what you are doing.

Mark

I have been sketching on the showcase-table. It's a slightly rotated version.
I like the feeling it gives, that it's a disaligned cut through the "homebase" of the ship. It's more random and not constricted by the walls of the showcase.

It's also tighter around the ship.

This is not how I want the homebase or city to look like. It's just boxes to get a feeling for the volumes inside the case.
For the final design I will probably make cutouts in cardboard and put them inside and move them around to find the look and layout I want.

And I need the table to at least be assembled with a plywood top to start the build on the hull.
I have no table big enough to hold it. And I don't want to keep it on the floor.

I have also bought led-lights and things I need to light up the mainhold. This will need careful planning since I need to drill holes where there are none.

I want one of the walls in the diorama to be the doors of a hangar big enough to hold the ship. The huge doors should be partly opened.

The construction of the showcase. How I planned it anyway.

This is on a whole new level of excellance.

Really nice to see the computer design beginning to take shape with the wood parts you have started on.

Very well done indeed.

All the different versions with colour schemes that I made I can live with. I didn't make versions that I would reject at once, that I thought were ugly.
I considered them and rejected them one by one after my ideas of what I want to do became more clear.

I love yellow. But I don't have a story or scenario for a yellow YT-1300 yet.

And I really want to make a red version.

That looks a very nice piece of work.

Going to be a very unique display when complete.

Hope it all continues well.