New BMF coming

Looks great Leyrich. I finally finished my first Falcon. At least, I am not going to do anymore. It has been more of an experiment to see what works and what doesn't before I start another. I just finished re-painting it and have already given it away. WP_20150704_11_47_29_Pro.jpgWP_20150704_11_47_51_Pro.jpgWP_20150704_11_48_26_Pro.jpgWP_20150704_11_48_54_Pro.jpgWP_20150704_11_49_22_Pro.jpgWP_20150704_11_49_35_Pro.jpgWP_20150704_12_04_32_Pro.jpgWP_20150704_12_04_41_Pro.jpg

This is basically my first attempt at something like this (with the exception of the second paint job on this one) and done as inexpensively as I could. Turned out well enough. I think I am ready to start one for me now.
 
Looking at the mounting point again, one thing struck me, Leyrich - how did you deal with the molded on gun? It's slapped all over part of the hexagonal cannon support, all across the turret window, and spills its horrible, lumpy way across the front curve of the turret as well. As I think they're identical, I was thinking of casting the portion of the top turret needed to replace that area and popping it in on the lower one, but, based on a lack of seams, it doesn't look like you went that route. What was your solution?
 
Timmythekid said:
Looking at the mounting point again, one thing struck me, Leyrich - how did you deal with the molded on gun? It's slapped all over part of the hexagonal cannon support, all across the turret window, and spills its horrible, lumpy way across the front curve of the turret as well. As I think they're identical, I was thinking of casting the portion of the top turret needed to replace that area and popping it in on the lower one, but, based on a lack of seams, it doesn't look like you went that route. What was your solution?
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I cut them out with a x-acto then teach up with a dremel then I got tow turret window from shapeway . I did not like the Hasbro windows.
 
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Ohhhh.....so the plastic is not as thin as I was worrying at that spot! I was thinking if I cut into it far enough to remove the cannon, I'd have a big hole to fill there on the turret base. Awesome stuff - that looks do-able!
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In other parts of the ship, if I never see another notched hull panel again as long as I live, it'll be too soon. I hadn't realized JUST how many notches need to be cut (messily...I keep telling myself I'm sure the 32 incher has some sloppy cuts...somewhere) or how many of the stickers actually represent two plates, or how many represent only parts of larger plates. Those are worse - I have NO idea how I'm going to blend the seam lines between my new panels and the existing detail. Thinking it may require getting the panels on there first, then hitting the whole thing with adhesion promoter, then a tiny bit of Bondo rather than Squadron putty, and hoping that sticks.
 
Hey Timmy, the Humbrol model filler sticks beautifully and sands so much easier than bondo. I filled all the needed seams with it. ..20150619_175455.jpg
 
Timmythekid said:
As an update to some earlier speculation, based on the leaked "Force Friday" signage today, looks like 'Old Sticker-Sides' may strike again, but this time with an E7 radar dish, and some paint ops.
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No, this image of the Falcon is not the Hasbro Hero Series Falcon, (HHSF is a mixture of the 5 ft & 32" movie props)......

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This image is of a toy of the Falcon as it appears in TFA, which is a LFL digital model of the 5ft model,.....with alterations (dish) & finer enhancements (more pipes & greeblies)

It is pretty much safe to say that the 32" is now retired

J
 
I don't know - I mean, obviously, the pic we have is a bit low-res, but it looks to me like the same hockey puck, same lumpy detail, the same thick box greeblies joining the mandibles and the saucer, the same 32" panel lines, and the same stickers as on the existing HS. Then I think about the economics for Hasbro. I mean, I know WE know the difference between the look of the 32" and the 5' models, but if I'm Hasbro, and have JUST tooled a new big Falcon from LFL digital files (HAS to be...no WAY would Hasbro have bothered to get even half right of what they did on the HS unless it had been provided to them), for the budget, great big E7 Falcon toy, am I going to A) design a new dish to replace the round one, slap it into the same package and call it done or am I B) Going to spend tooling budget on a very slightly different Falcon that only the obsessive will recognize as being the 5 footer, correct to E7? Given their stellar commitment to quality? I'm going with A. Eh...we'll see once we get some better pictures of the thing.
 
Timmythekid said:
I don't know - I mean, obviously, the pic we have is a bit low-res, but it looks to me like the same hockey puck, same lumpy detail, the same thick box greeblies joining the mandibles and the saucer, the same 32" panel lines, and the same stickers as on the existing HS. Then I think about the economics for Hasbro. I mean, I know WE know the difference between the look of the 32" and the 5' models, but if I'm Hasbro, and have JUST tooled a new big Falcon from LFL digital files (HAS to be...no WAY would Hasbro have bothered to get even half right of what they did on the HS unless it had been provided to them), for the budget, great big E7 Falcon toy, am I going to A) design a new dish to replace the round one, slap it into the same package and call it done or am I B) Going to spend tooling budget on a very slightly different Falcon that only the obsessive will recognize as being the 5 footer, correct to E7? Given their stellar commitment to quality? I'm going with A. Eh...we'll see once we get some better pictures of the thing.
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No Timmy as I said, this is totally different,.....the hull plates/panel lines are the 5 footer,....the lumpy detail connecting the mandibles to the hull should be the same as the Hero Falcon, cause they were 5 foot details,.....I've changed mine to Tony's 32' printed ones

The Hero Falcon has the softer details from the 32" because they are easier to pull from a mould/manufacture,.....It has elements from the 5 footer though, but those particular elements like the boxy connections as you mentioned (McLaren parts) just so happen to be easier to mould & cast than the equivalent 32".....

....so I guess thats why the Hero Falcon uses sections from both,...ease of manufacture

This TFA Falcon image is entirely 5 footer,.....no 32" parts are visible that I can see,...even the turret walls slope less

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She just looks...flat to me in that pic, And at a glance, I was matching up panels on the area I'm working on now, though I didn't go over the whole ship. I'll be delighted to be wrong though, so I'll optimistically concede :) I don't really wanna have to do ANOTHER Falcon, but I have a love/hate relationship with the 32" - On the one hand, yeah, the 5' IS the Falcon, but on the other, all the cool Falcon-ey goodness I fell in love with in the asteroid chase is sweet, flat, 32"-ery goodness. What to do, what to do?


(And I HATE your in-progress shot - it keeps taunting me, telling me I have to bite the bullet and cut out all the pits)
 
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