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    Jul 31, 2012 - My MPC Millenium Falcon #1
    Hello all,
    I started a ROTJ badged MPC Falcon I bought on ebay, did a ton of work painting and weathering, and finally flirting with some basic lighting. This is the first model I ever tried to light and also the first one I spent more than an hour on paint. I did my best but after reading about how bad this model is I just let her sit. After a year of collecting dust I bought my FM version and started going full blast on some tweaks for the lighting as seen in my other thread...anyway here it is. Please be kind.







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    Jul 31, 2012 - Re: My MPC Millenium Falcon #2
    Great Job! The MPC MF is a decent model and perfect for cutting your teeth on things like lighting and paint. Please finish it up and show us the completed model.
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    Jul 31, 2012 - Re: My MPC Millenium Falcon #3
    Looks great, like your paint job. I have one of these sitting on my Model Pile to be built.
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    Aug 5, 2012 - Re: My MPC Millenium Falcon #4
    Looking good, keep the pics coming!
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    Aug 5, 2012 - Re: My MPC Millenium Falcon #5
    Looks great!

    I love the MPC kit!! With a little hard work and TLC, it can be made into a beautiful model.
    Again, Excellent!!
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    Aug 5, 2012 - Re: My MPC Millenium Falcon #6
    The lighting looks phenomenal. Very impressive. More photos please! I could drool over the MF all day!
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    Aug 5, 2012 - Re: My MPC Millenium Falcon #7
    awesome build, can't wit to build mine with my son when he is a bit older.
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    Aug 12, 2012 - Re: My MPC Millenium Falcon #8
    Thank you all for the kind comments...I finally bought a modest airbrush and practiced with it a few minutes...then painted the exhaust pattern on the engine vents and around the circular cutouts and gave the whole top hull a light spray of acrylic flat black to dirty it up a bit. After I finished, I quickly discovered that a few minutes wasn't nearly enough... I think at some point in the future I could be just bad with an airbrush instead of really terrible... and that I should have stood the hull up vertical to paint it. I ordered a bunch of acrylic paints from Tamiya USA to do the FM Falcon. I think I will probably just live with this job and practice on the bottom hull after I to some serious practice on the roll of butcher paper I have.





    fixed a couple of mistakes...a little better

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    Aug 13, 2012 - Re: My MPC Millenium Falcon #9
    Nice. But perhaps a little too heavy with the black on the rear. The MF didn't run on coal. lol

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    Aug 13, 2012 - Re: My MPC Millenium Falcon #10
    TazMan2000 said: View Post
    Nice. But perhaps a little too heavy with the black on the rear. The MF didn't run on coal. lol

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    Hahahahaaaa!!! good point! My paint order from Tamiya is inbound, hopefully I can fix it.
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    Aug 13, 2012 - Re: My MPC Millenium Falcon #11
    Love the way you painted and weathered the landing gear.
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    Aug 14, 2012 - Re: My MPC Millenium Falcon #12
    Really nice!
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