Millennium Falcon part 4: Getting back to her

Well just as the title says, I picked her up again and started working on her. It was about time don't you think?

Category:

Howto & Style

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• star wars
• Millennium Falcon
• MPC
• Ertl
• Plastic Models
• Scale Models
• resin Models
• hunk of junk

[subron6er]

I ran into a Falcon kit up at the hobby shop , not sure who it was made by but that sucker was 300,00 bucks........... Ouch, ; this looks like a nice scale size model. Thanks for posting. Jeff

[badgrendels]

@subron6er That had to be the fine molds 1/72 kit. It sells in Japan for $220, so add shipping and I am not surprised they are selling it for $300. The kit I am working with was found on Ebay for $25 with shipping. The problem is this kit has many issues when it comes to accuracy. It basically has none, other than the overall shape.

[chancerNW]

Ah the joys of time management, sounds like you had a great christmas all the same. Welll done on finding the rpelcement figures. I'll be following this build with interest.

[badgrendels]

@chancerNW Christmas was good! Thank you for the comments, the new figures are much better than the old ones. 

[Generalsplatton]

Yep, lots of work. That is a very detailed kit and is going to look awesome when you're done.

[badgrendels]

@Generalsplatton Thanks!

[subron6er]

Well the old Chewy looks like a guy with a huge mustache. lol

[punkpigpen66]

@badgrendels yehh i learned that way from the best my friend Jason Eaton, who used to work for Master Replicas doing the sstudio scale tar wars stuff they used to make

[badgrendels]

@punkpigpen66 I didn't think about that, so off to the hobby shop to take a look at Jewelers pliers......

Thank you for the excuse!

[punkpigpen66]

you don't need a jig for the rods. for my studio scale Y-Wing i used a table vice and rounded jewelers pliers. i used 2mm and 3mm brass rod. hope that helps :)