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[DARTH SABER]

oh I love that idea! (coz that's the Ralph McQuarrie color scheme on a resistnace x-wing, right?) Nevermind, just found your Ralph McQuarrie x-wings on the forum.

Looks amazing, congrats. Any modifications on that x-wing or is it just the Bandai kit?

I added a piece of styrene plate to cover the strip behind the droid, sanded the edges down to make them a bit more soft and curvy, made some mods to engine intakes, and modified the BB8 to look more like the McQ painting. I think that was it.

 

[3Dsf]

Ya know, now that they've done this version with the round dish, all they'd really have to do to give us a 1:144 OT Falcon would be to change the docking rings, side walls, and maintenance pits.

I suppose the lower hull too, but it's still way cheaper than doing it from scratch because a ton of the leg work is done.

And the cockpit tunnel ridge and the shape and size of the undersaucer maintenance pits. It's the latter part that I couldn't come up with a 3D replacement for.

But it's a marketing decision - Bandai have all the data they need to make an excellent 1:144 OT Falcon if they felt there'd be money in it!

 

[DanielB]

And the cockpit tunnel ridge and the shape and size of the undersaucer maintenance pits. It's the latter part that I couldn't come up with a 3D replacement for.

But it's a marketing decision - Bandai have all the data they need to make an excellent 1:144 OT Falcon if they felt there'd be money in it!

I've been thinking of doing a complete 3d re-model of the cockpit tunnel and printing it myself. Unless you want to beat me to the punch, then be my guest and I'll buy yours.


I wish Bandai would just do an OT Falcon at 1:144. Seems like a no brainer to me.

 

[modelcitizen]

Everyone?- I do not remember that dish being triangular ever being mentioned

Bandai release schedule

 

[Jimmer]

I like the orange on then X wing. Very 1970’s retro.
Reminds me of the X wing I made awhile ago-

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I like the new colors on the Xwings, just not crazy about the pattern placement they used. Looks too fan fiction.
I love your design.
I know it sounds like I'm a crying fanboy, I'm not. Actually liked the new films.
Your design just looks so much more in line with the ship color schemes in the Star Wars universe.

 

[3Dsf]

I've been thinking of doing a complete 3d re-model of the cockpit tunnel and printing it myself. Unless you want to beat me to the punch, then be my guest and I'll buy yours.

You mean this?

 

[Laserschwert]

Is that a drop-in replacement for the existing strip? Or woud I need to modify the cockpit tube to fit this?

 

[3Dsf]

The problem with the Bandai 1:144 and 1:350 Falcons is that the cockpit tunnels have ridges that are too wide. So you have to put a raised strip on either side, and then scribe that strip to match the panel lines. Of course, you also have to carefully cut out the existing ridges...

 

[DanielB]

You mean this?

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Sort of. But I mean the entire cylindrical tunnel along with it, so that you can just snap it on without all the crazy surgery.

 

[3Dsf]

Ah - I see what you mean. Yes, I have considered that, as it would look a lot better and be less work for the model maker. However it’d be a ton of work to get the 3D model perfect. And the limitations of the Shapeways process would mean that the curved tunnel would have a bunch of print lines you’d need to spend time removing. So it’s not something currently on my list of stuff to do.

Need to finish that 1:144 X-wing canopy first.

 

[DanielB]

Ah - I see what you mean. Yes, I have considered that, as it would look a lot better and be less work for the model maker. However it’d be a ton of work to get the 3D model perfect. And the limitations of the Shapeways process would mean that the curved tunnel would have a bunch of print lines you’d need to spend time removing. So it’s not something currently on my list of stuff to do.

Need to finish that 1:144 X-wing canopy first.

Maybe I'll take a crack at the Falcon cockpit tunnel at some point then. I'm down for a set of 1:144 X-wing canopy parts. I'd certainly buy that.

 

[StevenBills]

FYI: the non-lighted version of the star Destroyer is only $66 right now on Amazon:

Amazon.com: Bandai Hobby Star Wars 1/5000 Star Destroyer Star Wars: Toys & Games

 

[3Dsf]

Yeah. It's definitely more fiddly and geometrically complicated than it looks!

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

No one's seen any indication of Bandai Hobby model kits for the Snowtrooper or Mimban Stormtrooper, have they? I'm having too much fun with these figure kits and some of the things I want to do require bits that aren't there (such as the Snowtrooper handplates for the ROTJ Stormtrooper).

 

[edge10]

Nope, nothing but the new TROS kits that were announced last week.

 

[Thomas Guycott]

My brother has all these plans and in in-progress projects for ancillary/head-canon Stormtrooper variants based on the Bandai figure kits that I keep egging him to make an account and a thread started on here...

 

[Gerard2567]

Everyone?- I do not remember that dish being triangular ever being mentioned

Sorry, I wasn't referring to therpf, but more specifically action figure forums... Or was it the youtube comment sections?

IDK, I was making arguments in one of them.

*edit* It was reddit.

 

[DanielB]

Rise of Skywalker Falcon box art/ contents.

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[Hunk a Junk]

This is what immediately comes to mind seeing these "new" TROS kits...

The Simsons Malibu Stacy... with a NEW HAT!!!!

When I get really cynical, I also can't help but think of THX-1138.

 

[DanielB]

This is what immediately comes to mind seeing these "new" TROS kits...

The Simsons Malibu Stacy... with a NEW HAT!!!!
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I agree, but in this case I'll take it. Since before The Force Awakens, I've wanted them to make a 1:144 OT Falcon. The round dish is one less 3d printed part it will take to get there.