Fine Molds 1/72 MF Coming soon!! (November 2011)

ehwwong said:
hmmm, this sounds more difficult that it seems.. i just realize that the kit come unpainted (lol, i know.. ) and i had no idea how to start "painting" or air brushing it... I think this pose more challenge that my other hobby which is lego building..

the prices on this kit is sure tempting.. :(
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How about going really SMALL like me:lol If you do mess it up THEN you can smash it up reall quick:lol
 
@sqbiedoo,

i agree with you, i might just buy a Y wing kit and try it and challenge my hands whether they are steady enough to hold a real small part. Now, off to research more on kit building...

should have started this when i was much younger!
 
ehwwong said:
@sqbiedoo,

i agree with you, i might just buy a Y wing kit and try it and challenge my hands whether they are steady enough to hold a real small part. Now, off to research more on kit building...

should have started this when i was much younger!
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hehehe:lol I"m 30+ now young man so no worries:love:love
 
this is great news I know several folks who didnt get one last time that wanted one really bad. I'm gonna let them know so they get ready and order one this time.
 
JMChladek said:
Well, good practice for this kit is to build one of the other FM offerings, such as the X-Wing or the Y-Wing (the Y-wing would be a good lead up). If you have NEVER done a kit, start with three or four to get your building and painting skills down. So maybe start with one of the easier offerings out there, then move onto an FM subject or two, THEN do the Falcon if you feel you are ready for it.

There isn't really anything that is a red flag on the Falcon for a newbie, BUT it has A LOT of parts in it and those can even give an intermediate to expert modeler a chance to pause since they are overwhelmed by the sheer number. The main factor that helps lead to a successful build of one of these IMHO is organization of the work area. Have a good set of sprue cutters handy, some small files and a good floor that you can find model parts on when a piece goes flying. Keep a highlighter handy as one thing that helped my organization was whenever I glued a part on, I crossed it off on the instructions so I would not get confused as to which step I was on. The work also went a little faster I think as a result. It still took me about a month to build the thing, working about two to three hours a night.

Plastic weld glues work best for building it as you can position a small part on the hull, touch the edge with a brush and capillary action will bond it to the surface really nice.
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Sound advice! I've been building styrene kits since the late 60s and, even with all of that practice and experience, I'm holding off on my Falcon until I feel I can do it justice. The assembly isn't much of a concern for me, but I feel I need to refine my painting techniques to give myself the best chance of having my finished build look like what I've seen on screen all these years.
 
Zombie_61 said:
Sound advice! I've been building styrene kits since the late 60s and, even with all of that practice and experience, I'm holding off on my Falcon until I feel I can do it justice. The assembly isn't much of a concern for me, but I feel I need to refine my painting techniques to give myself the best chance of having my finished build look like what I've seen on screen all these years.
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I understand fully. I don't consider myself a master modeler either. But I felt my skill set was about as good as it was going to get and went for it. If anything, painting this model took longer than building it as I used paint for almost everything and only tried the decals in a couple small areas.

You just have to start one step at a time. If anything, the time consuming bit was pulling references from three books, the Phoxim`s Science Fiction und Fantasy Modellbau Seite site (which has some nice pics of the 32" studio model) and deciding how to do the work. But in the end, it was black preshade, basecoat, retouch of the basecoat (as my original color looked too blue), addition of the detail colors for the panels, light smoke wash, drybrush, a tiny amount of decal work, seal with flat coat and pastel chalk weathering with microbrushes. I treated the approach to this one no different than a smaller kit (such as FM's 1/72 X-Wing) and things really popped in the final pastel phase.

If you want to check out my results, you can find them here on this RPF thread:
http://www.therpf.com/f11/my-finemolds-1-72-millennium-falcon-79652/

If anyone has other questions related to building the FM kit, we can continue the conversation there so this one doesn't get hijacked. :)
 
Fantastic, I was looking for one of these a last month and nearly bought one off Ebay for silly prices. Got my order in. Thanks for the heads up!

Al
 
Its very easy to use Pastels and it can be done on any model. On my very first pastelled model, I just started by applying it to places where it wouldn't be seen (mainly on the bottom) and then moved to the top. All you need is some earth tones (more than just black), some 320 grit sandpaper minimum (I grind fine since it locks into the paint better) a pallet to collect the dust and some applicators. Once you do a couple streaks, it begins to become almost second nature.
 
You know what is funny about the whole mandible issue, I've seen plenty of people gripe about it, but I have yet to see ONE completed and painted FM Falcon with the fix. I've seen a few get started, but none finished.
 
well, obviously Finemolds is well aware of the mandible problem, since they correctly toed in the 1/144 scale falcon.

and even on the box art for 1/72 falcon, toe in of mandible is pretty obvious.
even though I'm not sure whether finemolds used pre-existing paint for this box art
or created their own painting for this.


so, the question is did they spend the time, money and effort in this release,
or just used the same old die without any changes.

probably should ask the finemolds people directly, email them and
see if they are willing to answer questions.
their overseas customer department seem to be umisoto@finemolds.co.jp
according to their web site.


also, for some reason, Fedex shipping is 4486 yen, when EMS is 6000 and SAL 7300.

I emailed HLJ to see if this is really the case, or just typo.


just received email from HLJ saying this release would be exactly the same as previous release
with no changes what so ever.

still waiting answer from finemolds.
 
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I know this is a dead horse, and I don't want to beat it too hard, but they did not CORRECTLY fix the toe-in issue on the 144th scale kit. They did toe it in a bit, and the "jaw box" is in the way of really doing it right, but they did not fix it CORRECTLY. That would be like saying Academy CORRECTLY fixed the engine humps on the newer 48th scale F-15E/S, or that Kinetic CORRECTLY fixed the shape of the nose of the 48th scale F-16 kits. In all three cases, the problem was addressed, but the "correction" was an alteration--and in the right direction--but not a correction.
 
JMChladek said:
You know what is funny about the whole mandible issue, I've seen plenty of people gripe about it, but I have yet to see ONE completed and painted FM Falcon with the fix. I've seen a few get started, but none finished.
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You're so right. I've got three kits collecting dust. I'm a slow buider--one or or two a year, sometimes. This is a banner year since I've finished two and two more are so close. The FM Falcons keep getting pushed back. I started an MPC/Ertl Falcon (Accurizing, updating to ESB/ROTJ standard, and lighting) along the way, and that's on hold. I'll get back to it by the end of the year. But I have three kits to make sure I do adjust the mandibles. But that's still months (years?) away. Still, I might be first.
 
Dedalus5550 said:
You know, if it's cheap, people can afford to buy more than one in case they mess up the first one fixing the mandibles.
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"Cheap" is relative; I see people on this forum buying items left and right that I couldn't afford unless I won a multi-million dollar lottery. Even at Hobby Link Japan's discounted preorder price of $173 (U.S.) I know I couldn't afford a spare, and certainly wouldn't think of cutting one up. But, again, it's all relative.

JMChladek said:
You know what is funny about the whole mandible issue, I've seen plenty of people gripe about it, but I have yet to see ONE completed and painted FM Falcon with the fix. I've seen a few get started, but none finished.
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I saw online photos of one 2 or 3 years ago in which the modeler had finished the modifications, but hadn't painted it. While it did improve the overall appearance, again, it did not convince me to attempt it myself.
 
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