Hasbro Rebels Millennium Falcon Conversion

Hi Timmy and Hi Jameth,

I'm also doing the same thing at the moment, I did try to glue them on the existing wall but find out the overhang plates was short. I re-did it and
cut out the existing wall, then place a replacement styrene wall much just at the back and make the resin wall sit in the place of the existing wall.

I can say what a difference it made, the overhang has the correct depth and the position looks exactly like it did on the studio model.

Hope this helps...will post some pics later..
 
JPCOdessa70 said:
Hi Timmy and Hi Jameth,

I'm also doing the same thing at the moment, I did try to glue them on the existing wall but find out the overhang plates was short. I re-did it and
cut out the existing wall, then place a replacement styrene wall much just at the back and make the resin wall sit in the place of the existing wall.

I can say what a difference it made, the overhang has the correct depth and the position looks exactly like it did on the studio model.

Hope this helps...will post some pics later..
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So, you cut them away, replaced the existing walls with styrene, but far enough back from the original position to allow the resin parts to seat where the old walls had been, do I have that right? That...makes sense actually - one thing that's worrying me is the very slightly uneven height of the repalcement walls (my craptacular sanding job in a couple of places, not the parts' fault). building a new set of structural walls would aleviate that problem.
 
Timmythekid said:
So, you cut them away, replaced the existing walls with styrene, but far enough back from the original position to allow the resin parts to seat where the old walls had been, do I have that right? That...makes sense actually - one thing that's worrying me is the very slightly uneven height of the repalcement walls (my craptacular sanding job in a couple of places, not the parts' fault). building a new set of structural walls would aleviate that problem.
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Yeah, I saw some doing this earlier when we all first started this.

I just glued them on existing walls and they look great.

I'll post pic tomorrow.

Tom
 
Hi Timmy, thats exactly right. You only need to do this on the side walls on the main saucer, the existing walls on the mandibles are ok and can be glued directly without removing them.
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Really? Hmm...it was actually looking at the pieces laid on the existing mandible walls that was making me think those walls would have to go. I'll have to have another look at my reference library again, because it just didn't look deep enough to me. And, my, my you've got a lot going on behind those walls, don't you :)
 
Personally I think since this technology that happened "A LONG TIME AGO..." we are actually witnessing pre-Tardis technology!
 
OMG... think about this... what if the Time Lords are actually Jedi but have traded in the use of the Force for Regeneration... and instead of using a Light Saber they shrunk it down into a Sonic Screwdriver! OMG... The Doctor could actually be the great great great great great great great great great grandson of Luke Skywalker! Ok I think I just blew my own damn MIND!
 
Hey kokkari...all I can say is AMAZING! I purchased one of these falcons to paint it up as practice before I start on my DeAgostini Falcon Kit. But after seeing what you did with it I am inspired to really go to town and make it awesome too.

Those lit shots you took of it look like it's straight out of the movies!

One question for ya...and excuse me if you mentioned this already, I haven't had time to read all 13 pages of this thread...where did you get the arm that you have it mounted on? It looks like it has a ball pivot on the top so that you can rotate it around to different angles. If so that is awesome!
 
SirCharles77 said:
Hey kokkari...all I can say is AMAZING! I purchased one of these falcons to paint it up as practice before I start on my DeAgostini Falcon Kit. But after seeing what you did with it I am inspired to really go to town and make it awesome too.

Those lit shots you took of it look like it's straight out of the movies!

One question for ya...and excuse me if you mentioned this already, I haven't had time to read all 13 pages of this thread...where did you get the arm that you have it mounted on? It looks like it has a ball pivot on the top so that you can rotate it around to different angles. If so that is awesome!
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Thanks SirCharles! It's called a Panavise and yes you can pivot it to whatever position you want which make displaying it really nice because if your bored looking at it from one angle you can change it up. I bought it off ebay with a similar listing as this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Panavise-88...078?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58a486030e
 
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