Bandai 1/144 Falcon color

[Talaris]

If you want to compare to a different colour, I’ve been using TS-7 Racing White over grey primer, on the same model you have, here I what it looks like:

 

[kookoogr]

Thank you everybody for your answers. I have almost completed the model but i hit another snag. I repainted the model again and the final color is much better but the decals are dreadful with some loses at the top of the craft. I tried to match the colors of the decals but i had no luck with the closest color for the dark panels being the vallejo pale blue grey. Granted that after some weathering the decals will get darker what is your opinion on the matter? Should i keep the scheme as is or do all the dark panels with the pale blue grey?

 

[Jedi Dade]

Very odd - I found the decals - and even the stickers to be really good... did you use setting solution? and it is VERY true that after shipping and weathering they will tone shift - just like the rest of the paint will.

Jedi Dade

 

[kookoogr]

I used a "ton"of decal solution, the tamiya one. In very few cases the decals would set at raised details and the stickers don't have the same color tone as the decals so i can use them as replacements

 

[GF]

I've seen the 32" ESB falcon in person and I have the Master Replicas Falcon and A20 Tamiya Insignia White is a very very close match, I used Insignia on some of the shuttle panels, you can see the shade difference compared to the white shuttle base color. The falcon is definetely not grey but a warmer cream/beige color

 

[Jaitea]

Looking good kookoogr,....a way to blend it down a bit is misting,....giving your model a fine dusting with the basecoat,...spraying from a distance....nothing heavy

Here's a 1/144 I'm working on

Keep it up
John

 

[Analyzer]

Looking good kookoogr,....a way to blend it down a bit is misting,....giving your model a fine dusting with the basecoat,...spraying from a distance....nothing heavy

Here's a 1/144 I'm working on

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Keep it up
John

I think that is one of the keys to getting that ILM Star Wars look. You really want the odd colored panels to look faded instead of turning up the contrast.
Of course a lot of that happens in the weathering stages as well. It is a very iterative process

 

[3Dsf]

I think another thing that people always get wrong is that colour scales. So they try to eg: copy the paintwork on a big five foot model. But on a smaller model you want lighter paintwork and less contrast.

 

[Jedi Dade]

The color depends on which falcon you're shooting for. I've seen them both in person and the original from ANH is a light gray. The 32" is a kind of creamy color. whatever the base color was for either is tough to say, and I still stand by that if you lay down something close you can adjust the tone you're going for by the weathering techniques and colors you use.

As for the decals not settling - I don't have a good solution for you, I've never experienced it with Tamiya and setting solution. I suppose you could "chip" the decals in the places they are problematic, and weather over all everything to blend thing together...

Jedi Dade

 

[Millenniumf]

You also have to account a bit for the fact that they ILM guys would deliberately oversaturate the colors on their models knowing that it would get faded out a bit due to the bright studio lights.

 

[thud83]

I just got this kit for Christmas, so I've bookmarked it for later.

For now, I have a question. This kit has a lot of greeblies that aren't exactly flush with the base model. Do you guys paint those parts before attaching them, or do you just hit them with a primer coat once the whole thing is assembled?

 

[3Dsf]

Bandai parts fit together snugly. I'd paint them after assembly.

The original ILM models were painted after assembly, if for no other reason than the primer and base layers concealed the differently coloured greeblies sourced from various kits.