Bandai Perfect Grade Millennium Falcon Decal Inaccuracy?

[starwarsdude]

Bandai provided black decals for the controls and roof of the Perfect Grade. Set pictures show the are gray panels on the controls and roof. Did they make a rare misstep?

I used the decals because they offered too much detail that couldn't be painted.

 

[3Dsf]

Well, it's complicated. The PG Falcon model is a very accurate rendition of the 5 foot miniature's exterior as it appeared in the first Star Wars movie. However the cockpit is wrong, since it's a rendition of the Empire full-sized cockpit design.

But yes - they didn't colour some of the panels in grey that should have been. Conjecture: perhaps because of issues printing them?

 

[starwarsdude]

I don't think printing gray would be an issue. I don't think there's any all black version of the cockpit in the films so it's a mystery as to how they missed the gray panels. They are such sticklers for detail.

On other issue with the decal for the back panel is that only the light bar strips are transparent. They could have made a lot of the lights transparent for a more lovely light up.

 

[3Dsf]

They didn't use grey ink/dye on the decals - the grey areas are halftoned black, as I recall.

 

[3Dsf]

Bandai also made the sidewalls solid black, figuring nobody would try to illuminate them as there isn't much clearance. I commissioned a maker of acrylic LED panels to make super thin ones to fit in behind there, since you can't put much else there. Alternatively you could run a bunch of 0.25mm fibre optics, but it's tough to get them to work well owing to the sharp bend to get them to fit.