Chrisisall
Master Member
That far? Like you 'didn't' with your underside access wells? Please, let's not fight over accuracy. We do what we think works. It's like we go as far as we can/want, and we like our results or we don't.
Bandai 1/144 ROS Falcon kit as ESB/ROTJ era Falcon? That's my goal. And I seem to have reached it. Now it needs a few friends in its scale...
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I’m missing something here. Who’s fighting over what, now? I merely stated that I used the printed replacement part, and that you (quite reasonably, considering the huge amount of work involved with dropping in the replacement part) chose the easier route of tweaking the existing greeblies. Nothing at all wrong with that.
I made a statement of fact, not a value judgement of your work. I’m baffled that my statement could somehow be misconstrued as some sort of attack.
EDIT: ...although, after rereading my post, I can see how “Those cockpit greeblies are just shockingly wrong” COULD be misconstrued as a criticism. In point of fact, I was referring to the blatant inaccuracy of the stock Bandai kit, NOT your work on it. Sorry for any confusion.
I made a statement of fact, not a value judgement of your work. I’m baffled that my statement could somehow be misconstrued as some sort of attack.
EDIT: ...although, after rereading my post, I can see how “Those cockpit greeblies are just shockingly wrong” COULD be misconstrued as a criticism. In point of fact, I was referring to the blatant inaccuracy of the stock Bandai kit, NOT your work on it. Sorry for any confusion.
Chrisisall
Master Member
Me too!
Chrisisall
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This is a complicated kit when one only gets to work on it an hour here & there. I've messed with the greebles on the cockpit tunnel 4 times now... gotta paint the cockpit & gunner stations before final assembly. And, place more greebles on the docking rings... then there's hull damage... man, this kit is incredibly well engineered.
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Chrisisall
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Just searching through the instructions looking for where part A29 goes... did I miss something? Then I realized it's that dumb little droid from the recent trilogy, LOL. The rectangular radar dish parts are also included...
Chrisisall
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Tweaking & adding stuff. In progress... yeah more work on an imperfect model to produce a nice representation...
I took great pleasure in chopping up and trashing the kit figures I wasn’t going to use. Although I did grudgingly convert MaRey Sue into ESB Leia. And I’m still trying to figure out how to acquire or mod a figure to represent a sitting, 1/144 Threepio. That’s one of things that’s held up my build.
Chrisisall
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There are parts left over for that... just get the elbows with piping rejects, and gold paint will take care of the rest... unless you want to stare into the cockpit... to ME, at that scale, I'm not gonna really care like they may have at the 5 foot model.
Probably just gonna order some 1/144 standing Threepios from Shapeways, then combine the torso with seated legs, I think.
True, the small scale makes it less of a problem, but Threepio has such a distinctive look that simply painting a human figure gold isn’t quite enough, for me.
Painting up Han, Chewie, and “Leia” was a lot of fun, though.
True, the small scale makes it less of a problem, but Threepio has such a distinctive look that simply painting a human figure gold isn’t quite enough, for me.
Painting up Han, Chewie, and “Leia” was a lot of fun, though.
Chrisisall
Master Member
Wow. I didn't know they had them. Maybe it's my eyesight at this stage in my life but to me, a small model is so much less about the figures than the ship they are in. Then again, my Seaview 1:128 scale was a bit easier...
Chrisisall
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JNordgren42
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Your damage looks great!
Timmythekid
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Just carved into my damage last week - yeah, ditto - really nice work on those blast holes! Are you thinking of attacking the various twisted hull plates as well (thinking of the ones near the engine, and the massive damage to the side wall near aft of the starboard docking ring particularly).
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Chrisisall
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I was considering doing a little more work on my 3PO figure because or Gregatron's amazing work on his figures, then I did this test. Nope. wasted effort IMO. At this scale the cockpit interior is more impressionistic than technically accurate. Even IF you make it technically accurate, the clear styrene distorts it back to impressionistic. No, I won't commission a glass blower to make the windows. No, I won't use the canopy part with no clear parts, and no, I won't use the open canopy & create windows from super thin clear styrene. This is a fun build, not my singular obsession.
At 1:36 it would be a completely different story...
At 1:36 it would be a completely different story...
Chrisisall
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I'm actually not sure the twisted plates were there for filming, or bent later on during unpack & display, so I'm not doing them as I don't see them onscreen in either case.
Is this the docking ring damage you're looking for?
starks
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Im not familiar with the twisted plates, do you have photo's available?
starks
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