Hello RPF folks.
This year i have had a Hasbro Slave 1 given to me for crimbo.
Im not usually a fan of Hasbro stuff, as its normally a bit too "Janky" for me as I normally do studio scale replicas.
But i was blown away with the nice moulding and the pretty good size. So once i had checked it over and decided to do a refit i checked the many threads where other builders had done similar things to this model. They were highly enlightening and i decided it was worth the time and effort.
So, to start with my main bug bear was the underside. Its much better than the older hasbro Slave 1's but fall wayyyy short of being acceptable to me.
I removed the lower details, dead easy as its all one moulded part, made a base plate in 2mm plasticard to work to, as i am wanting to cast all the parts for a friend who would like to do the same thing.
So i started with the tricky bits which i couldn't replicate in greeblies, ie engines and radar dish. I turned them down on a lathe in resin and made them fit the moulded underside of the toy.I raided my old kit stash and used some ATAT parts from the old revell kit as well as a load of other bits which have the same feel as the original greeblies and kitbashed and scratch built as much as i could.
I purchased a Ferrari to give me the engine details. They are a little small as the scale of this toy makes it very tricky to get the correct sized greeblies. After checking some other kits out it became clear that this wasnt going to be accurate by any stretch of the imagination, but to me thats ok for this.
I then got hold of a 1/15 scale porsche rsr, but that was a fraction too small as well. So i increased the size by layering filler onto the body and sanding back to make enlarged versions of the fenders. These fit nicely now.
I didn't really like the engines without the signature reflectors in there, so i drilled out the body and inserted some halogen bulbs in there. Also didn't like the main pipes, so i bought the railway gun to get the parts and they are still far to big. so i resorted to making moulds of the wing supports (the same parts) and duplicating them as the main underside pipes. Pics to come.
Also i started on the main body, gluing in place the main doors and filling all the gaps. Completely filing off the details on the sides and replicating the small panels in plasticard. I cut the nose/ skirt section off the removable "door" and added it to the main skirt so i can fill and sand it into perfect finish (no seams hopefully ;-).
So heres where i am now. Just about to make some moulds of the main greeblies, and finalise the smaller details before i get to assembling it.
heres how they all fit onto the base plate. The parts are just placed on there in this image, so not aligned as much as they will be on completion.
still more detail to add to many of the parts obviously !!
Hope you like it, theres a lot more to do, but i think as a hasbro toy, its one of the better ones available.
More soon, thanks for checking this out.
This year i have had a Hasbro Slave 1 given to me for crimbo.
Im not usually a fan of Hasbro stuff, as its normally a bit too "Janky" for me as I normally do studio scale replicas.
But i was blown away with the nice moulding and the pretty good size. So once i had checked it over and decided to do a refit i checked the many threads where other builders had done similar things to this model. They were highly enlightening and i decided it was worth the time and effort.
So, to start with my main bug bear was the underside. Its much better than the older hasbro Slave 1's but fall wayyyy short of being acceptable to me.
I removed the lower details, dead easy as its all one moulded part, made a base plate in 2mm plasticard to work to, as i am wanting to cast all the parts for a friend who would like to do the same thing.
So i started with the tricky bits which i couldn't replicate in greeblies, ie engines and radar dish. I turned them down on a lathe in resin and made them fit the moulded underside of the toy.I raided my old kit stash and used some ATAT parts from the old revell kit as well as a load of other bits which have the same feel as the original greeblies and kitbashed and scratch built as much as i could.
I purchased a Ferrari to give me the engine details. They are a little small as the scale of this toy makes it very tricky to get the correct sized greeblies. After checking some other kits out it became clear that this wasnt going to be accurate by any stretch of the imagination, but to me thats ok for this.
I then got hold of a 1/15 scale porsche rsr, but that was a fraction too small as well. So i increased the size by layering filler onto the body and sanding back to make enlarged versions of the fenders. These fit nicely now.
I didn't really like the engines without the signature reflectors in there, so i drilled out the body and inserted some halogen bulbs in there. Also didn't like the main pipes, so i bought the railway gun to get the parts and they are still far to big. so i resorted to making moulds of the wing supports (the same parts) and duplicating them as the main underside pipes. Pics to come.
Also i started on the main body, gluing in place the main doors and filling all the gaps. Completely filing off the details on the sides and replicating the small panels in plasticard. I cut the nose/ skirt section off the removable "door" and added it to the main skirt so i can fill and sand it into perfect finish (no seams hopefully ;-).
So heres where i am now. Just about to make some moulds of the main greeblies, and finalise the smaller details before i get to assembling it.
heres how they all fit onto the base plate. The parts are just placed on there in this image, so not aligned as much as they will be on completion.
still more detail to add to many of the parts obviously !!
Hope you like it, theres a lot more to do, but i think as a hasbro toy, its one of the better ones available.
More soon, thanks for checking this out.
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