AMT Slave One WIP

Thanks Rich and Sean. I haven’t seen the FM Slave 1 kit up close but from what I can tell it’s got a lot more accurate details than the old AMT one not to mention a better looking Boba Fett. Painting this will be quite a challenge for me. I will want to make sure I get all the chips and scratches right (if I’m a little off I can live with that) but more importantly for me is to get the right shade of colors down. Thanks for looking.

Here's a little step-by-step on attaching this strip of styrene around this bend by gluing a little at a time.

But wait...there's more. I did quite a bit of scratch building here. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.











And then onto the ship it goes with more sctrach built pieces.





And then a few more bits here and there.









Thanks for looking.

Its coming along nice, the detail work you are adding is making a big difference . I own one of these ERTL Slave 1 plus a half built version of the finemolds. I am patiently waiting to see one day Slave 1's definitive interior somewhere in the CW series so I can customize it with holding cells as well. Are you going to keep the original rotating cockpit it came with or are you going for the ILM version type?

Thank you Metallboy. I want to redo the cockpit to match the studio model and try to add some red lighting on the control panels. What I also plan to do with this is display the Slave 1 in landing position but I want to open the boarding ramp and build a cargo area similar to what’s seen in AOTC but include Boba and HIC in the display. After I finish most of the exterior details, I’ll start working on the interior.

looking good it will pop once you prime it!

Thanks 3d-builder. I love what you have done to the old Snow Speeder kit. I know my improvements won’t be as good as that but I am looking forward to priming this thing and seeing how it all comes together.

The ramp scene in AOTC is a great idea its exactly what I did to my finemolds it also has the interior panels of the ship along with all the greeblies added to it. The ramp will open with fiber optics added to lightly illuminate the walkway. Oh and yes love to see your Slave 1 with primer.

At first I was thinking of replicating the classic scene in ESB when HIC is being loaded into the Slave 1. Since there is no shot of the interior of the cargo hold, I could loosely base it on what little we can see in AOTC. Then I thought about having to build the cloud city landing platform and sculpting a tiny stormtrooper and officer and not sure that’s something I can do. I’m now more thinking of creating a display that shows the Slave 1 landing on Tatooine to deliver HIC to Jabba. Upon his arrival on Tattooine, wouldn’t it be a strange coincidence if Boba happened to land in docking bay 94? Just a thought for now.

Randy13 said:

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At first I was thinking of replicating the classic scene in ESB when HIC is being loaded into the Slave 1.

Something like this.

Division 6 now those are awesome pics , I guess we are not the only ones thinking this way about the Slave 1 built. and Randy 13 yes if you would zoom in frame by frame during the AOTC scenes where they show the Slave 1 interior you can come up with nice details of the interior. However I must warn you the ERTL interior is very small to work with. I have been searching endlessly for photo etched cockpit greeblies for the finemolds and in all scales and all types amazing with what you can rig up? Great job keep em coming ..

Looks great! Love the new scribed detail!

Thank you guys for your input and feedback. Division 6, thank you for that link. That’s a very nice display and the other builds on that page look great too. I have gone frame by frame over those AOTC scenes and when I get to that point of the build, I’ll be really studying that part. I’m going to try and scratch build as much as I can of the cargo area but I’m also going to put in my own interpretation simply because I want to have fun creating my own details in there. I know in the expanded universe of the Slave 1 it has changed hands a couple of times before Boba got it back in ESB. That will be my excuse to add my own details because I’ll assume the other “temporary owners” of the Slave 1 had made their own modifications. I have more pix to upload but wasn’t able to do that last night. Gotta make time for that tonight.

Really fine work Sir..Outstanding!

It's nice to see more modelers work on these old MPC kits!

Thank you very much Capitan Solo. You work on the MF is breathtaking and those landing gears are awesome!

Here are some updates I've been working on the last few days. I'm taking the build kind of slow and just enjoying every minute of it. Any critiques and criticisms are more than welcome.

These were taken a little earlier.







More recent pictures with more details added to the starbord side.











Not 100% accurate but close enough for me. If anyone spots some important details I may have missed, please let me know. Thanks for looking.

You've done a beautiful job so far!
The only thing i would critique, would be the "car seat" part you used. For some reason it doesn't look "functional". I would use some kind of piping instead. ? Just my opinion.

tek2graphics said:

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You've done a beautiful job so far!
The only thing i would critique, would be the "car seat" part you used. For some reason it doesn't look "functional". I would use some kind of piping instead. ? Just my opinion.

Thank you and thanks for the suggestion. I couldn't find a clear close-up of that part and couldn't quite tell what was going on there so I was looking for something that was relatively close. I didn't even think of using something simpler like piping.

Here's a close-up of the area on the FM kit, this one built by ScreamingSamuraiStudio



& here's the link to his build on scale model addict site:

The Fine Molds Slave-1: My entry for the 2012 SMA Spring Contest

J

Thank you for sharing these pics Metallboy. What you've done to the cargo hold looks very nice, busy and functional. I also love the modifications you've don't to the cockpit. Both of them look great. These are giving me all kinds of ideas now. Also, I haven't even considered the SW comics as a source for Slave 1 interior details.

The interior has always been left to the imagination, though I remember the StarWars Insider putting out a Boba Fett magazine years ago that had the interior of the Slave I mapped out. Which was taken from the StarWars incredible cross sections. Star Wars books - Slave I Cutaway- Dorling Kindersley

So far so good. I cant wait to see it finished.

I love seeing this kind of build up. Looking great so far.

Al

Thank you guys. Not much to report today because of a busy weekend. Today I’ll be going to the LHS to get some stuff for the build. Thanks for the link Plugs. I love that cross section and seeing that makes me with I could build a replica of that artwork. I still have more to do on the exterior before I start the challenging(but fun) interior. I’ll also need to keep in mind how I want to light the inside of this thing.

Cool build. All of the detail and scribing is incredible!

Randy ? Randy?.... anymore updates...