ecl
Sr Member
I’m working on painting/building another one of the small Bandai falcons. I purchased a set of 3D printed upgrade parts on Shapeways created by “The Age of Plastic”. The parts are really amazingly well done—had no idea 3D printing could yield these kinds of details on this scale. The cockpit canopy and antenna dish alone are great upgrades. I’ve installed upgraded sidewalls, antenna, turret windows, and also replaced the detailed portions of the 4 upper “maintenance circles” -or whatever they’re called (the last pic shows the stock maintenance pit parts; new ones are in the second pic. Basically the stock ones have too much piping detail in these areas, as well as the curved sidewalls on the sides of the ship). I’m trying to give this one an even better paint job than the first one I did (stock without any upgraded parts).
Here are a few pics. Sorry, they’re iphone pics, so not very good. I’ll be taking better photos after more work is completed. The phone camera has a way of making the details look rough, probably because it’s such a small scale. The cockpit interior is coming in the mail so I haven’t worked on that yet.
Here are a few pics. Sorry, they’re iphone pics, so not very good. I’ll be taking better photos after more work is completed. The phone camera has a way of making the details look rough, probably because it’s such a small scale. The cockpit interior is coming in the mail so I haven’t worked on that yet.