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

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The base is coming along very nicely indeed. I do play spot the greeblies and I've got a few so far. I'll look again later when I have more time. 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.

Revell (Bandai original) 01211 Star Wars Millennium Falcon

I am in the middle of building this now, and I think I will probably paint it fully assembled, although being a bandai kit, it push fits together, but the fit is so snug that there is a danger of damaging the part when trying to prise them apart. You can modify parts to make this easier though. Extra support was needed for it to stand unaided and so the Falcon gained another 2 landing gears as a 'Han & Chewie improvement' 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.Everything I've seen suggests that no-one paints this with brushes, it's all sprayed. Is this right? Use both, You can't replicate all the weathering with an airbrush. 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.

Bandai Star Wars Perfect Grade 1/72 Scale Millennium Falcon Bandai Star Wars Perfect Grade 1/72 Scale Millennium Falcon

You've probably been watching videos on YouTube, these are the most accessible and there's quite a few on there with some good tips. Also, all the other panels painted in the original color of the falcon seem to have almost no scratch marks at all. I'm a little unclear on something, unless I missed it. Does the MF in the new movie have the extra gear boxes. If it's based on the 5-footer, does that mean it does not? Or if since the boxes were added to the 5-footer model, they ARE on the "new" version? The kit is based on thorough research on the 1.7m studio model and knows no compromises in terms of model fidelity and detailing. The different colored plates are supposed to give the impression in the film that Han and Chewi are repairing the falcon with all sorts of spare parts that they got from a junkyard. For example with a plate of a red or dark gray painted YT freighter.Separate pieces for each detail were created to recreate the deeply-detailed sides of the ship in a three-dimensional fashion. The free-running pipes are represented in combination with individual pieces for a closer resemblance to the studio model. Yes, actual gear WERE made, but unless someone has better info on this, I believe they were made and added to the “32 incher“ later for the modified trilogy, because it is the “32 incher“ that was scanned or photographed for insertion into the films, replacing the unattended and PARKED set Falcon images, thus landing legs were required at that point. Personally, I think that was a rotten choice. 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. 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 I’m really looking forward to the project because I’m going to build a ship that doesn’t plow through water but through space.

Bandai Millenium Falcon Perfect Grade 1/72 - Advice Bandai Millenium Falcon Perfect Grade 1/72 - Advice

It IS the Millennium Falcon, all the work that went into it....all the details, super fine details,....but the model was BIG & heavy and hard to get those agile & active shots. One of the first releases of kits from EP7 would/should be a lovely 1/72 Millennium Falcon....which would be of the REAL Millennium Falcon As for the Hasbro - its a mish -mash of both models... it will never be a "replica" (unless you basically rebuild it into one of the versions)- but it can be an AWESOME model. The 32'' was modelled with the same 5 gear boxes......and gears,.....was that the 32'' we see leaving the Bespin platform?[/QUOTE]So now all these years later DeAgostini is letting us build up a part-work Falcon,....studio scale...again of the 32" The unique curved engine consists of light guiding parts that recreate the way the engine would light up in the movie. The 5ft version that is. Thanks for the breakdown. I like the fact that the new Hasbro REBEL falcon seem to be a combo of the best of both 32" and 5 ft version. Thanks john, this is a great thread for us doing the hasbro , I am leaning to the 5 foot model but am slowly getting the differences clear in my head, these details are great.