Fett_Ish
Sr Member
A month or two ago I hopped on here excited to post pics of my FM falcon. Well Alaneye had started one literally minutes before so I waited. I commented in his thread and rather than pollute his thread with my sad attempts I figured I'd try to contribute what I can.
This is my second attempt at this kit. The original was modified only with photoetch grills on the rear deck and escape pod hallway tops. I didn't even fill the gaps between the piping parts.:facepalm This one is getting lots of love as I can't see myself building a third. I am using both the 32 incher and the five footer for inspirational templates. so while I am replicating niether I am copying both,so it will look like the Falcon not some other weatherd hamburger.
The first thing I did was build the cockpit around the acreation PE set. I cut out the molded in grill (the picture in sculpting a galaxy shows no grill just a frame). I then cut a piece of styrene drilled some holes in it and glued it behind the grill. I stretched some sprue and added it to either side of the photoetch grill (twice actually as I couldn't get it thin enough the first time). I added a detail to the outer side of the tube from the five footer and the backside and one front pipe from the 32 incher. I replaced the little molded on cylinder at the end of a pipe on the outside of the cockpit tube as the injection molding process causes it to face up. At the end of the tube on the main hull I modified a part to raise up off the hull rather than lay flat on it.
Next I filed all the panels on the perimeter of the top hull,carved the detail near the 3 little pipes near the front,emulating the more ragged damage from the 5 footer, and replacing those three little pipes with less uniform ones that come up off the hull. I also removed and replaced a good portion of the piping on the two front top quadrants. On the cockpit side I shimmed up the last part before the panels start and drilled a hole in it so that I could have the pipe travel up off the hull at an angle towards this piece emulating the 32 inch model I also added a few details in this area. On the other side I removed the three pipes near the jawbox and replaced them so they would be raised above the hull where there is no panel,again like the 32 incher. I have also started adding missing bits of detail around the ship.
Where I am right now is tearing up (gently and purposefully) the outer edge of the top hull. The number and spacing is close enough to the five footer that I am copying that damage,which is considerable. When I get to the bottom I am going to have to use styrene sheat to build tthe damage on some panels. If you read that, I'm amazed. Gp easy on me as it is a work in progress Mr. Surfacer,primer,sanded spots etc,etc. Suggestion,questions,critques welcome! Oh yeah,the main hull and mandible 'transmission' parts are held together with rare earth magnets for access to electronics.
This is my second attempt at this kit. The original was modified only with photoetch grills on the rear deck and escape pod hallway tops. I didn't even fill the gaps between the piping parts.:facepalm This one is getting lots of love as I can't see myself building a third. I am using both the 32 incher and the five footer for inspirational templates. so while I am replicating niether I am copying both,so it will look like the Falcon not some other weatherd hamburger.
The first thing I did was build the cockpit around the acreation PE set. I cut out the molded in grill (the picture in sculpting a galaxy shows no grill just a frame). I then cut a piece of styrene drilled some holes in it and glued it behind the grill. I stretched some sprue and added it to either side of the photoetch grill (twice actually as I couldn't get it thin enough the first time). I added a detail to the outer side of the tube from the five footer and the backside and one front pipe from the 32 incher. I replaced the little molded on cylinder at the end of a pipe on the outside of the cockpit tube as the injection molding process causes it to face up. At the end of the tube on the main hull I modified a part to raise up off the hull rather than lay flat on it.
Next I filed all the panels on the perimeter of the top hull,carved the detail near the 3 little pipes near the front,emulating the more ragged damage from the 5 footer, and replacing those three little pipes with less uniform ones that come up off the hull. I also removed and replaced a good portion of the piping on the two front top quadrants. On the cockpit side I shimmed up the last part before the panels start and drilled a hole in it so that I could have the pipe travel up off the hull at an angle towards this piece emulating the 32 inch model I also added a few details in this area. On the other side I removed the three pipes near the jawbox and replaced them so they would be raised above the hull where there is no panel,again like the 32 incher. I have also started adding missing bits of detail around the ship.
Where I am right now is tearing up (gently and purposefully) the outer edge of the top hull. The number and spacing is close enough to the five footer that I am copying that damage,which is considerable. When I get to the bottom I am going to have to use styrene sheat to build tthe damage on some panels. If you read that, I'm amazed. Gp easy on me as it is a work in progress Mr. Surfacer,primer,sanded spots etc,etc. Suggestion,questions,critques welcome! Oh yeah,the main hull and mandible 'transmission' parts are held together with rare earth magnets for access to electronics.
