Red Mosquito

Classic B

I was actually worried about that one.

dimejinky99 wrote:Fuck you Falcon..I will beat you..

Ok, so now that we see you working on it I realize how small that Falcon really is!
Does that mean we won't be seeing any Fibre optics? I'm counting on you man!

cant wait to weather the living shit outta this and make it a piece of garbage..
it's like writing lord of the rings in its entirety, on a stamp..fuck small super detailed ships..they take longer..

Long protracted debate with my pal on FB about bands replacing dead frontmen and continuing (im totally against it and hes all for it, citing cases where its worked well, AIC, FNM etc)

round and round the debate went until i put it to him that he was effectively saying its fine that Lucas replaced the original Anakin force ghost in Return of the jedi, with Hayden Christensen


Boom.

Never bandy words with a Jedi

southp wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Fuck you Falcon..I will beat you..

Ok, so now that we see you working on it I realize how small that Falcon really is!
Does that mean we won't be seeing any Fibre optics? I'm counting on you man!

Not on this one South P. I'll be making it again when Bandai release the 1/27 version. We're all waiting on that.
In the mean time

Just about to say i'm getting pretty good at this, then the words Great kid, don't get cocky popped into my head

just to give you lads an idea of the level of detail Bandai went to on this model, heres an engine insert from the underside of the falcon, with an earphone for scale..

God damn, did you have any idea it would be this complex?

Yeah, some small idea..but i cant even begin to contemplate how people are sucessfully lighting this..

you have to drill tiny holes all around the hull and either drill about 25 in the cockpits back wall plate around the door alone (itsprobably smaller then a 1c coin) and then glue fibre opotic cables into each drill hole..

I'll make it again and light it but as to detail, Bandai win..the other version is by Fine Molds and goes for over $200 and its not as detailed or as accurate as this one(the hull is too fat/hockey pucked shape and the mandibles dont tow in as they should) but for $30 this is an incredible piece of work. which admittedly takes a lot of wor but it's worth it..

i mean lookwhat this guy did with it and remember it's Tiny





no idea how he painted the figures..theyre miniscule!

I'm going to go ahead and win this thread.



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Cockpit done..its so tiny..no feckin idea how people get fibre optics in there...
thats a lighter beside it for scale..

done! FU BB*8

dimejinky99 wrote:done! FU BB*8

Fucking hell. Credit to you dime, I would've set fire to the bloody thing long ago.

Yeah, one of the ideas put forward in How Star Wars changed the universe book, is that Star Wars fans hate it as much as they love it.
got a little revenge today..heating up a screwdriver to make blaster scoring on the hull:) theyre not perfect but they will be great once i
do some dry brushing & add texture



these decals are so tiny..there's 4 in this pic and you can barely see em..they're on the model though so it's canon.

Got BB8 into the cockpit gonna give that a once over tomorrow.

I can't see the whites of their eyes.

CopperTom wrote:I can't see the whites of their eyes.

Don't shoot yet then.

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

CopperTom wrote:I can't see the whites of their eyes.

Don't shoot yet then.

What? And let Han shoot first?