jake88
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I don’t think they are short enough on the new repop. When I did mine I used the side walls from 1993 or whenever and literally cut them in half.
Thoughts and tips on painting the Millenium Falcon
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starks
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Thanks for sharing! You really did a fantastic job with that, it must have been a fair amount of work for you but well worth it.
Cheers,
Josh
This is my 32" build. My goal was to match the original filming model streak for streak. I'm not perfect, but I got it pretty close. I think the thing people do often with the Falcon is over doing the weathering. The smaller the scale, the less weathering you should have. I see a lot of builds of the 1/72 or 1/144 Falcon painted like they're the 4 footer. You should see practically nothing at the smaller scales.
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Finished DeAgostini build.
Hi everyone. Not really much to say about this post other than it's my finished DeAgostini 32" Falcon. My goal was to match the filming model, and in the process make the build seem less 'toy like', so I've left out all the interior play-set parts and corrected the exterior as much as I can...
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starks
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Truely lovely work there mate. You clearly have really studied the studio model well, even things like the soot off the engines you have those airbrush stop splotches, very talented and very well done.This is my 32" build. My goal was to match the original filming model streak for streak. I'm not perfect, but I got it pretty close. I think the thing people do often with the Falcon is over doing the weathering. The smaller the scale, the less weathering you should have. I see a lot of builds of the 1/72 or 1/144 Falcon painted like they're the 4 footer. You should see practically nothing at the smaller scales.
Finished DeAgostini build.
Hi everyone. Not really much to say about this post other than it's my finished DeAgostini 32" Falcon. My goal was to match the filming model, and in the process make the build seem less 'toy like', so I've left out all the interior play-set parts and corrected the exterior as much as I can...
Yeah you're right on the smaller scales having less detail, also colours should get lighter. good tips for people beginning their builds.
Cheers,
Josh
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The rule of thumb for weathering is, if it doesn't look like there's quite enough weathering, stop, there's enough weathering.
starks
Sr Member
There really is no right or wrong as it's such a personal preference....and the film lighting angles and even the actual props look so different in different light.....
I usually go too dark and when I go too light it looks too light....
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It's your build and you go as dark or light as you want! It looks nice and grimey. I appreciate you sharing.
What are the extra 'nodules' on the gun turret?
Cheers,
Josh
starks
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Well, after looking at falcon every day for a month I worked out what was really bothering me. 1) the entire paint job just didn't seem sharp, all the repainting and weathering areas made it look kind of fuzzy. Also painting on top of paint it had this odd texture to the paint that bothered me.
2) was the streaking, it may have been somewhat realistically smudgey but it didn't match the model and it was far out of scale. The streaks were too wide.
So it got a good 1200 wet sand and repaint the top time. 3rd times a charm right?
Taking on board what has been said here and after scouring the internet and watching through all those 'Deagostini Paint the Millennium Falcon' videos on you tube, I still found barely enough good reference photos LOL. Although I did learn quite a few things in those videos.
There are a lot of photos of the 32" studio model but lightings poor and you really can't see the detail and especially things like rust washes and black washes are just lost.
so after probably 15 hours painting this is where I am. I'm so far much happier with it but can see it is still a bit underdone shall we say. I haven't added the blaster/impact marks to the front yet either. I also figure this being around half the size of the 32" prototype that some weathering will be lost scaled down. I will add to this somewhat if I can get better close up photos.
All the weathering this time I have tried to do much softer.
I painted all the separate panels and did the dirty whitish faded filter, very lightly, over the top. in the photos I found this seemed heavier at the front and less at the back. I also only just touched on the red panels to save them going pink. I also did not want the frosty look I have got last time I tried this.
I scaled down the streaking by masking and airbrushing it all, then added a little puff around the top of them to make them less sharp, so I hard masked one side and soft edged the other so they would be a bit softer.
The toothbrush splatter I wanted to scale down also, I've only done like a dirty yellowed out dark grey and put it in the airbrush at extremely low pressure so it sprayed chunky droplets and sprayed it in the air above the model so droplets would fall on it.
Anyway here is where we are up to this morning.
I'm feeling this is an improvement on where she was before.
Comments are welcomed.
Cheers,
Josh
2) was the streaking, it may have been somewhat realistically smudgey but it didn't match the model and it was far out of scale. The streaks were too wide.
So it got a good 1200 wet sand and repaint the top time. 3rd times a charm right?
Taking on board what has been said here and after scouring the internet and watching through all those 'Deagostini Paint the Millennium Falcon' videos on you tube, I still found barely enough good reference photos LOL. Although I did learn quite a few things in those videos.
There are a lot of photos of the 32" studio model but lightings poor and you really can't see the detail and especially things like rust washes and black washes are just lost.
so after probably 15 hours painting this is where I am. I'm so far much happier with it but can see it is still a bit underdone shall we say. I haven't added the blaster/impact marks to the front yet either. I also figure this being around half the size of the 32" prototype that some weathering will be lost scaled down. I will add to this somewhat if I can get better close up photos.
All the weathering this time I have tried to do much softer.
I painted all the separate panels and did the dirty whitish faded filter, very lightly, over the top. in the photos I found this seemed heavier at the front and less at the back. I also only just touched on the red panels to save them going pink. I also did not want the frosty look I have got last time I tried this.
I scaled down the streaking by masking and airbrushing it all, then added a little puff around the top of them to make them less sharp, so I hard masked one side and soft edged the other so they would be a bit softer.
The toothbrush splatter I wanted to scale down also, I've only done like a dirty yellowed out dark grey and put it in the airbrush at extremely low pressure so it sprayed chunky droplets and sprayed it in the air above the model so droplets would fall on it.
Anyway here is where we are up to this morning.
I'm feeling this is an improvement on where she was before.
Comments are welcomed.
Cheers,
Josh
starks
Sr Member
Thanks, I'll do that!Hash marks and dots ... either in black with a fine marker or even better a 2B/3B lead in a pencil holder that way you can always erase any mistake
Chaïm
Some of my reference photos show the lines and dots but others dont so will have to just add what I can.
Cheers,
Josh
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