David3
Sr Member
I decided that any modification to the frame isn't worth it if you were thinking of going that route, unless you intend to completely seal it up with no interior. At least if you just trim back the locating pins on the side walls will get them to sit back in by a further millimeter.
I did some scale comparison between the bandai 1/72 and the deago and by super imposing the images over each other in photoshop and aligning the docking rings the side walls also line up to each other but the saucer plating on the bandai over hangs the deago's by about 8mm all around. Problem is though if you increase the saucer plating diameter the vector flaps on the rear engine deck don't stick out far enough on the deago to look right. So that would be problematic but would still look better as far as getting it to look like the 5' Falcon than having the characteristic shallow side wall recess of the 32".
I did some scale comparison between the bandai 1/72 and the deago and by super imposing the images over each other in photoshop and aligning the docking rings the side walls also line up to each other but the saucer plating on the bandai over hangs the deago's by about 8mm all around. Problem is though if you increase the saucer plating diameter the vector flaps on the rear engine deck don't stick out far enough on the deago to look right. So that would be problematic but would still look better as far as getting it to look like the 5' Falcon than having the characteristic shallow side wall recess of the 32".