The Force Awakens Millennium Falcon Projects
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sqbiedoo
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I have mailed Paragrafix asking if they have any plan of producing photo etch for the TFA Falcon but unfortunately they don't.
Hunk a Junk
Sr Member
Looks nice, J! Besides being a fun build, this kit will be great proportional reference for anyone modifying the FM or AMT kits.
mythshaker
Active Member
If the cannon yoke can pivot vertically then firing to the rear is not a problem. Also, if the rear bulkhead of the gun control room is eccentric to the access tube then the entire rear bulk head can rotate independently of the control room. Also, they are not visually targeting through the porthole they are using the targeting computer in front of their face.
sqbiedoo
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I do. Really nice found J. Those details on the walkway tube, there's almost nothing to see. Bandai makes the griebel too rough.
astroboy
Master Member
astroboy
Master Member
BOOOOO.
Mind you, if I can do this well enough, I might do it with the glass in. I'm kinda scared by that prospect
astroboy
Master Member
My first attempt at that on a fm 1/144 falcon looked awful. Using scratchy's resin window frames were a godsend for ver. 2.0
astroboy
Master Member
So mine just showed up. That shape really is beautiful. Truly beautiful.
But here are my hits and misses about this kit:
hits
- the shape and size. of course
-the detail.
-the piping for this thing is awesome. Way better than fine molds
-I LOVE the fact that the rear detail around the engines are separate pieces. Those little red and gray markings at the back were such a pain to mask off on the FM version. Now they can be crisp.
-marking decals. Forget the panel decals! Holy hell....we have marking decals!
misses (some of this might be a criticism of the new design for the movie)
-this symmetry thing is really bugging me. Other than the forward top panels, the radar dish and the cockpit, the entire thing is symmetrical. I imagine that the new digital model is like that....which I don't like. That's just lazy.
-the cockpit looks too toy-like. Overall, I like the panel lines on this, but the ones on the cockpit are way too pronounced. I might fill them in and rescribe
-I loved the transmission pieces along the side of the mandibles on the old falcons. They were like armour shoulder pads. They don't really stand out anymore and because of this, the mandibles look a little weak IMHO.
-as great as the detailed gunwells are, I have them on my FM falcon and you just can't see them at all. We'll see on this version.
This all being said...I can't wait
On the whole, if I were to start this tomorrow, I wouldn't know where to start with paint. I'm definitely going to hold off until after the film is out and there are better images out there. We all know that what the manufacturer tells us to do is no the same thing as what's on the screen.
Or is it?
The other Bandai models I have were all based on studio scale models. This is an entirely different approach
But here are my hits and misses about this kit:
hits
- the shape and size. of course
-the detail.
-the piping for this thing is awesome. Way better than fine molds
-I LOVE the fact that the rear detail around the engines are separate pieces. Those little red and gray markings at the back were such a pain to mask off on the FM version. Now they can be crisp.
-marking decals. Forget the panel decals! Holy hell....we have marking decals!
misses (some of this might be a criticism of the new design for the movie)
-this symmetry thing is really bugging me. Other than the forward top panels, the radar dish and the cockpit, the entire thing is symmetrical. I imagine that the new digital model is like that....which I don't like. That's just lazy.
-the cockpit looks too toy-like. Overall, I like the panel lines on this, but the ones on the cockpit are way too pronounced. I might fill them in and rescribe
-I loved the transmission pieces along the side of the mandibles on the old falcons. They were like armour shoulder pads. They don't really stand out anymore and because of this, the mandibles look a little weak IMHO.
-as great as the detailed gunwells are, I have them on my FM falcon and you just can't see them at all. We'll see on this version.
This all being said...I can't wait
On the whole, if I were to start this tomorrow, I wouldn't know where to start with paint. I'm definitely going to hold off until after the film is out and there are better images out there. We all know that what the manufacturer tells us to do is no the same thing as what's on the screen.
Or is it?
The other Bandai models I have were all based on studio scale models. This is an entirely different approach
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SteveStarkiller
Sr Member
that is fantastic, speaking of primer versions...
