After close to 4 years, I finally have finished my Fine Molds 1/72 Falcon. I kept putting it on hold deciding whether I should attempt to fix the mandibles, fix the flatness issue, build it with magnets so I could swap out the landing gear for in flight vs landed, which would then mean I needed to scratch some interiors so you see up the ramp and through the cockpit door, replacing the radar dish, making copies of the some of the greeblies and figures to use with my MPC builds, etc...
I eventually got to the realization it's better having a fully built and painted Falcon. Otherwise I've got a $200 plus dollar pile of plastic.
I can save the dreaming for the MPC kits, or breakdown and buy the Revell repop when they finally release it (assuming it doesn't go into put of production mode as fast as the Fine Molds ones did) and not be daunted by screwing up trying to fix the toe in since I've already got one built.
At any rate, out of the box build apart from the Madman Lighting Kit, and MMI exhaust grilles.
I skipped primer and laid down a coat of GW Chaos black in the engine wells/pits. Then did a base coat of Tamiya AS-16 (Light Grey). Then I mask on some panels and did a coat of Tamiya AS-20 (Insignia White) sprayed outward straight out from the center (the same way the runoff would go) while leaving it as more of a misting in some areas to give a little variation. Then I added the darker grey panels and red panels by hand (didn't feel like breaking out the airbrush). After that it was iterations of oil washes and pastel work followed by a matte varnish, some misting of Tamiya AS-20 and more pastels and washes.
I'm not sure about the color. The box art on the old MPC boxes always seemed to show a more grey than cream falcon.
http://www.starwarsmodels.com/images/boxes/falconmpc.jpg
http://galaxykits.com/instructions/files/mpc_amt_esci_ertl/millennium_falkon_5030_n.jpg
I kind of prefer the more grey look. At any rate, depending on the light it looks more grey or white. In more natural yellow light like the full sun or incandescent bulbs it looks more greyish, in cloud cover or a room in the day with out lights on it looks more white
I quickly did the figures and was a little sloppier than normal with them. At some point I plan to touch them up a little better, but for now they will do. you can't even see most of them anyway
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And I brought it into work to display along with all my other 1/72 ish stuff (and my daugther's picture and her artwork
)
I'm running out of room on my desk/cubicle
From left to right Fine Molds Jedi Starfighter, Titanium Series Droid Tri-fighter, Revell Arc-170, Studio Starforge Eta Starfighter, Fine Molds Tie, Tie Advanced, jpg AAT, MVM Tie Bomber, Fine Molds Tie Interceptor, Retro SF cloud Car, Fantastic Plastic B-wing, Retro SF Snowspeeder, jpg Landspeeder, Fine Molds Y-wing, Fine Molds X-wing, Revell AT-AT
Here it is in its final display place with the Revell Slave-1 and the Retro SF Cloud Car on top of my little desk cabinet
I eventually got to the realization it's better having a fully built and painted Falcon. Otherwise I've got a $200 plus dollar pile of plastic.
I can save the dreaming for the MPC kits, or breakdown and buy the Revell repop when they finally release it (assuming it doesn't go into put of production mode as fast as the Fine Molds ones did) and not be daunted by screwing up trying to fix the toe in since I've already got one built.
At any rate, out of the box build apart from the Madman Lighting Kit, and MMI exhaust grilles.
I skipped primer and laid down a coat of GW Chaos black in the engine wells/pits. Then did a base coat of Tamiya AS-16 (Light Grey). Then I mask on some panels and did a coat of Tamiya AS-20 (Insignia White) sprayed outward straight out from the center (the same way the runoff would go) while leaving it as more of a misting in some areas to give a little variation. Then I added the darker grey panels and red panels by hand (didn't feel like breaking out the airbrush). After that it was iterations of oil washes and pastel work followed by a matte varnish, some misting of Tamiya AS-20 and more pastels and washes.
I'm not sure about the color. The box art on the old MPC boxes always seemed to show a more grey than cream falcon.
http://www.starwarsmodels.com/images/boxes/falconmpc.jpg
http://galaxykits.com/instructions/files/mpc_amt_esci_ertl/millennium_falkon_5030_n.jpg
I kind of prefer the more grey look. At any rate, depending on the light it looks more grey or white. In more natural yellow light like the full sun or incandescent bulbs it looks more greyish, in cloud cover or a room in the day with out lights on it looks more white
I quickly did the figures and was a little sloppier than normal with them. At some point I plan to touch them up a little better, but for now they will do. you can't even see most of them anyway
- - - Updated - - -
And I brought it into work to display along with all my other 1/72 ish stuff (and my daugther's picture and her artwork
)I'm running out of room on my desk/cubicle
From left to right Fine Molds Jedi Starfighter, Titanium Series Droid Tri-fighter, Revell Arc-170, Studio Starforge Eta Starfighter, Fine Molds Tie, Tie Advanced, jpg AAT, MVM Tie Bomber, Fine Molds Tie Interceptor, Retro SF cloud Car, Fantastic Plastic B-wing, Retro SF Snowspeeder, jpg Landspeeder, Fine Molds Y-wing, Fine Molds X-wing, Revell AT-AT
Here it is in its final display place with the Revell Slave-1 and the Retro SF Cloud Car on top of my little desk cabinet
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