The BBC has put together an interesting little slideshow discussing the Welsh background of Star Wars, which includes a couple of really interesting pictures of the construction of the Millennium Falcon from The Empire Strikes Back–interestingly, the only point at which there was a full-scale model of Han Solo’s ship during the entire trilogy. Compared with this picture of the Falcon in the Hoth hangar bay, it’s pretty interesting to get a sense of the ship:

Hunting down a picture of the Falcon in the hangar bay, I found a particularly interesting project afoot to build a full-scale Falcon by some fans. This, in turn, led me to a book I’d not heard about that’s been out for about a year that puts together sketches from the planning stages of the movies: Star Wars: The Blueprints. It’s a limited edition run–only 5000 copies, and the cheap version runs $500 a copy, so it’ll remain a book we all lust over for now. They still seem to have plenty of copies left, though, so if you have a spare chunk of change, I can only imagine that this would be an really interesting visual experience.