Any progress been made on lighting the cockpit better. I am not looking for zillion fiber crap but the general illumination makes me so bummed I just slide it back in storage.
I suppose this depends on what bums you.
a) Kit LEDs are too weak: Replace with brighter LEDs (what I have done, page 68 of this thread)
b) Want to have the many little lights light up in the back panel: Paint the transparent back panel and scrape off the paint where light needs to come through (TK4611 executed this in page 74)
c) Want to have the many little lights light up in the side wall panels: Recast the side wall parts with transparent resin and do the same as b).
If not satisfied with the above solutions, I think it would be better to do away with lighting the cockpit, possibly by substituting it with JoeCS 's prop faithful cockpit.
An alternate route would be to just bypass the cockpit and go on to build the other areas, until eventually the motivation to complete the kit builds up so much that it forces you to invent new creative ways to light the cockpit (or to go the zillion fiber route).
The buttons dont bother me so much as just ambient light so you can see the figures. Will try some bigger smds
About showing the damage on the edges of the hull - I used a pair of smooth needle nose pliers held against my soldering iron for a few second and then just bent and distorted in the places shown in research photos of the real 5'er. If you don't get the pliers too hot it works a treat.
One thing I did notice is that the research photos are almost all close-ups, so the tendency is to make details on the Bandai Falcon larger than the scale will allow. So, less is more on the damage to the hull edges and the blast points.
I suppose this depends on what bums you.
a) Kit LEDs are too weak: Replace with brighter LEDs (what I have done, page 68 of this thread)
b) Want to have the many little lights light up in the back panel: Paint the transparent back panel and scrape off the paint where light needs to come through (TK4611 executed this in page 74)
c) Want to have the many little lights light up in the side wall panels: Recast the side wall parts with transparent resin and do the same as b).
If not satisfied with the above solutions, I think it would be better to do away with lighting the cockpit, possibly by substituting it with JoeCS 's prop faithful cockpit.
An alternate route would be to just bypass the cockpit and go on to build the other areas, until eventually the motivation to complete the kit builds up so much that it forces you to invent new creative ways to light the cockpit (or to go the zillion fiber route).
I was scanning through the ANH blu-ray last night and noticed that there seems to be some visible lights in the studio model cockpit during the backing out of the hangar shot. We know there were LEDs in the two lighter grey dashboard console boxes, but there seems to be an amber light visible on the board of gauges on the top of the cockpit back wall. I also suspect they may have added a couple figures into the Morgan seats because there are some shapes visible that don't correspond to the known details in the cockpit.
How are you guys going about recreating these blast marks? My initial thought was taking a pastel or grafite and smearing it. Thoughts?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171204/e59e76b3c5980c6f83a9af9f67eda6d8.jpg
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When I tried that with my airbrush I couldn't get them small enough. Were you able to o achieve the right size for this scale?For those I angled my airbrush and shot it at low pressure similar to how the original was done. I appreciate that is hard to do though at this scale so I cheated on some areas, a dot from a sharpie then quickly smudged in the required direction with a cotton bud can work....
Thanks John!yeah it is very tricky to do, those marks where made with the airbrush:
Were those lights and figures there before the special edition ?
Well, to add to the conversation here is a photo from the new chronicles book with the same reddish color in the cockpit. It doesn't quite look like an illumination to me, but I can't tell for sure.I believe so, but I'm happy to be proven wrong.
Well, to add to the conversation here is a photo from the new chronicles book with the same reddish color in the cockpit. It doesn't quite look like an illumination to me, but I can't tell for sure. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171204/8420554e7c92a2d267aed0c205f3869d.jpg
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