Star Wars Perfect Grade Millennium Falcon 1/72 Scale Plastic Model Kit

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If you wanted to really push the boat out in terms of paint you could go the route of "screen accurate" paints by Archive X enamel based paints ( Pretty expensive, I have some and will be using these with Tamiya and Gunze Sangyo). Apply the decals first after removing the surface details. Otherwise I would have had problems with Microsol myself.

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Includes an LED unit, Photo-Etched parts, water-transfer decals, a custom display base, and instructions. Includes seated figure parts of Han, Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan, C-3PO You had to use a lot of force to snap the component into place. With all the color, however no wonder. Suffice it to say that there are tons of small differences in all areas of each model. "In general", the 5 footer is more highly detailed - made for more close up shots. If you're using reference for your models you need to spend a bit of time to determine details so you can tell which model your reference is from.

But that’s why I didn’t understand why parts of the inner ship can only be seen in one of the larger holes and I filled the other holes with leftovers from the rummage box and styrene. After priming and pre-shading, the first base coat is on. I chose Vallejo White Gray. Pure white would have been too cold for me. The first three panels are painted red. It was quite complicated because I hadn’t thought about installing the flap control later. I didn't do anything idle during the week when I introduced myself here with my first construction reports.

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The right side. I use the upturned ramp of the falcon to conceal the slit in the two diorama halves When Master Replicas were releasing their studio scale model of course they made a 'Replica' of the 32"....they were allowed complete access to it and successfully duplicated it,.....but the 32" didn't really deserve this superstardom,....it wasn't meant to have all this attention & people scrutinising it's every detail,....it wasn't the REAL Falcon The complex details on the top of the Millennium Falcon are precisely crafted. This level of detail is impossible to recreate in anything smaller than this 1/72 scale model. After all, what are we model builders for, close the gap. I only had to score a new board seam with a mini chisel afterwards. The Millennium Falcon joins the ?Perfect Grade? series, Bandai?s flagship line of ultra-detailed plastic model kits.The 5 foot model was then also modified with the 2 extra landing gear boxes & gear for the ship landing on the Cloud City platform. With regards to aftermarket parts, I believe there are some about but I'll be building mine out of the box. I've also seem some more detailed characters in different poses available if you weren't happy with the ones that come with it. The idea was to let the falcon fly through a kind of halved tube. This will then be equipped with a Death Star surface, which I will create later.

Bandai Star Wars Perfect Grade 1/72 Scale Millennium Falcon

Personally I wouldn't brush paint until there are finer details. And with all my builds I try and use as less of the decals as possible and any panels I airbrush on.....it's a pain with all the masking but you get a more realistic finish. Plus you can pre-shade, weather, chip effect and add damage much better than you can with a decal. The nice thing about the kit you have is the panel decals already have the look of chips and scratches etc so will still look decent. Nothing wrong with using the decals. However, if paint were to flake off the red replacement part, the original color of the falcon should not appear underneath, but rather the primer of the spaceship from which this plate originally came.

What are the best 3rd party add-on's? Are they necessary? Shapeways, don't need too much though - Greeblies I think Fine Molds released their 1/72 model of the falcon in 2005 before Master Replicas MF, they decided to make a scale model off the 32" I don't know how much access the FM modellers were allowed, but they got some fundimental measurements wrong

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This was the first time that a part didn’t sit perfectly. A huge gap had to be bridged with Mr. surfacer. Ironically, ANH is the odd man out without the extra hull boxes. Actually, even though the ANH set Falcon didn’t have the extra hull boxes, it DID have one of the “landing legs” in the guise of the pipe-looking utility in the exact location of where the landing leg would protrude (from beneath the hull box) in the next film. Since it was a half Falcon, only the right side support “leg” was there. But it was necessary to include it even in ANH for stability/safety reasons. After it was decided to make a full set Falcon for ESB, rather than having to disguise TWO safety supports as two such “utility pipes” appearing no mater where the Falcon landed, someone finally figured out to “celebrate” these additional supports as actual landing legs. The new hull boxes were added for consistency. I don't have the PG Falcon, unfortunately, but I've built two other Bandai Star Wars kits and I can give some advice on the decals questions -The 32'' was modelled with the same 5 gear boxes......and gears,.....was that the 32'' we see leaving the Bespin platform?[/QUOTE] And everyone seems to assemble then spray (rather than spray parts before assembly). Is this right too?