Just Another DeAgostini Falcon (FINISHED)

vj mojo

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Hello all, as the title says. Its a Falcon build. Will probably have to take some time out from my Black Pearl build for this one. I have started my subscription a bit late, issue 26 in-fact but I was able to scoop up a deal on ebay, issue's #1-#20 for only $50 (It also came with two binders and Han Solo) minus #19 so I have got a few on back order.

Decided that I am going to add the extra detail for the cockpit, cargo hold and hall and get the PE set from ParaGrafix as-well as the cockpit floor and seats from Shapeways, not too sure if I'm going to add the extra detail to the Gun Ports yet. Also waiting for some LED light strips to arrive as I am going to add extra interior lights, will wire up the LED's to work from 12V DC power supply.

As for painting, I will take a page out of DARKVIEW's Falcon build which looks Awesome. My normal painting technique is to... (1)Prime. (2)Pre-shade. (3)Lay down the Base Coat. (4)Seal with a Gloss Coat. (5)Then apply my Oils and Weathering. It's a similar technique as to what I use already it just skips the first 4 of my steps.

Don't really have any pics to post, at least not any that would be exciting, so will get some up when I have made something to show off.
 
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I've been doing what I can for the time being, no painting yet. So its a bit all over the place at the moment, started doing a bit of work on the cockpit first I can now proceed with as my Shapeway's parts arrived today along with the lights earlier in the week. Also started to a few mods on the cargo hold mainly scratch building the pillars where the pipes are (both walls) marking out where I'm going to add panels/detail and getting what I can ready for the Halls/Corridor PE sets.

Cockpit wall ready for the PE set and the Shapeway's parts, will being doing some mods on these.

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Added the door frame from the cockpit door I cut off to the room Leia was in.

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Before and After

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Some more work on the cockpit, used the front end of the Shapeway's cockpit to extend the PE set, will post some pics of it painted but waiting on my clear to arrive before I can apply the decals.

Will use the rest of the Shapeway's cockpit for the little maintenance room Leia was in.

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Only added a few lights to the console, after watching the movie again I couldn't see a lot of on it. Applied the decals from the PE set I couldn't be bother painting the buttons and besides I prefer the decals although my camera phone makes them look a bit ratty.

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Finished scratch building the other wall for the hold, just waiting for the PE sets to arrive, hopefully not to much longer.

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Nice work, love your cockpit and scratchbuilt hold add ons. Look forward to seeing this progress.
 
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Got the the cockpit finished just have to figure out the lighting, got some different ways of lighting it that I want to try out so I've got other LED's coming in the mail and I got a couple of 3W star LED's that I want to find out what kind of job that would do, just need to get a resistor for them.

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Bit of scratchbuilt panels. Got some old guitar strings to use as pipes for the inside arch's, soldered together then twisted and bent to fit, also modified the pipes that came with the kit to roughly what they should look like.


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Got the the cockpit finished just have to figure out the lighting, got some different ways of lighting it that I want to try out so I've got other LED's coming in the mail and I got a couple of 3W star LED's that I want to find out what kind of job that would do, just need to get a resistor for them.

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Just remember that's the incorrect canopy. Wouldn't want you to do all that work and then close it all up under the wrong cage there! I'm trying to figure out some lighting ideas for lighting the sidewalls in the cockpit area as well. Looking great!
 
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Yeah,I knew there was a replacement canopy, #42 I think, but thanks for the heads up anyway. I will probably use one of my 3W star led to light the backwall, waiting for some led strips to arrive in the mail that I will use for the side walls.

Star led lit up during the day.

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Just have to add some more pipes when every other thing is complete and assembled.

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A quick mock-up to see how it fits together and lighting test, wont leave it assemble permanently need to work on it just a little bit more, plus I need to wait for other magazines arrive for the parts I need.


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Apologies for the quality of photo, may have to try a few different things so they look good, but have started some painting while I wait for parts to come.

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Started painting the hull plates that I have, don't have many so it wont be long until I am caught up.

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