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[Patriot666]

I love all the detail in this, especially the interior.

 

[Darth Waller]

I don't understand how come there are so few pictures of this if it was displayed? What are people doing at these conventions!?

Standing in lines.

Not quite, but as this was my third Celebration, I didn't feel inclined to take pictures this time. Rebelscum usually does a good job of photographing all the booths.

 

[galactiboy]

Yep, I didn't really feel the need to take photos :lo

And to be clear the fully built Falcon is the custom painted one... it looked good that way. The stock kit is much, much cleaner and has a bit of a plastic shine to it.

I don't think this piece is quite worth it if you were just going to display it as-is... I mean it kind of is, but since I intend to weather it and follow the tutorials I think it will be worth the investment. But if I didn't intend to do any work on the piece and display it as-is I wouldn't spend $1600 on it.

However, the only other real alternative is to pay $5,000 for the MR version so maybe it is worth it in that case.

 

[galactiboy]

BTW, is there one person on Shapeways offering bits to upgrade the kit? Or a list of what people are using for their upgrades?

 

[egel]

I love all the detail in this, especially the interior.

The inside stuff looks pretty nice, but once it is fully assembled you can't see any of it right? Seems like a bit of a waste.

 

[Jack Bauer]

BTW, is there one person on Shapeways offering bits to upgrade the kit? Or a list of what people are using for their upgrades?

Here: SciFi by TonyRR on Shapeways

click on the left under DeAgo Falcon...enjoy

 

[LrdSatyr8]

The inside stuff looks pretty nice, but once it is fully assembled you can't see any of it right? Seems like a bit of a waste.

Once fully assembled, a few sections can be removed to reveal the interior.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

So, that's what the paint looks like straight from DeAgostini, without doing any custom paint? Wow.

Looks like the Hasbro. No weathering?

Not seeing a $1600 paint job.

From what I understand that is actually the prototype and not an actual completed DeAgo Falcon... all the parts have yet to be made for the Falcon so there is no truely completed version as of yet. They also tend to tweak parts before they are made, so no telling exactly how they are going to turn out. Also, from what I understand that Falcon on display was shipped from UK and was damaged in the process of shipping (thus the reason for the supports on the bottom and there are a few more pics on RS that show where teh actual metal framing was broken. The paint job was a rushed one on the prototype... I think they gave the guy like 24 hours to do the entire ship. Not alot of time and I'm sure if they brought in someone that was more experienced to do the job, it would have come out looking better. But no matter, I fully intend to repaint this puppy from scratch anyway. There's a man named Andy that is producing a set of paints specifically calibrated to the Falcon (including the Floquil Grime that is impossible to find anymore). Should help tremendously. You can find them here: D.O.A starwars : Zen Cart!, The Art of E-commerce ... I know i was disappointed in the paint job myself, and after seeing some photos of the bottmo hull pieces that are coming together you can definately seeing a difference in the weathering between the various panel pieces. But then again, it is nearly impossible to maintain a level of hand weathering across hundreds of parts spread out over a lengthy period of time. The only way to do it accurately would be if they used a computer to control every brush stroke and paint spatter. But that's a tottaly different ball of wax. Hell even the MR Falcons towards the end of the runs needed to be repainted because if you compared a first run to a end run together, they looked nothing alike!

 

[dao2]

doesn't look like it tbh, just a weird paint job. the parts look shiny, that didn't.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

BTW, is there one person on Shapeways offering bits to upgrade the kit? Or a list of what people are using for their upgrades?

There is a man named TonyRR on Shapeways offering a whole slew of piecees for the DeAgo Falcon. If you go on Shapeways and do a search for DEAGO you'll find all kinds of parts for it including hallway crates and boxes, tools, seats etc. Tony really went all out on accurizing the peices for this kit and it's worth it! We started a good support group with tons of info for this build on the RPF... here's a link for anyone who is interested:

DeAgostini 1:1 Studio Scale Millenium Falcon Support Group and Info

 

[galactiboy]

Thanks for the links

 

[galactiboy]

Oh, and I started my subscription today

 

[Darth Waller]

Oh, and I started my subscription today

Baller!

 

[FLOSI]

Placed my order!

 

[FLOSI]

 

[galactiboy]

There's a series on the DiAgostini site with general building instructions as well as tips on adding some paint. I was looking at the custom parts... and while they do look nice, I think initially I'll mostly stick with the kit parts, but add paint and weathering to them as they come in.

 

[darth dennis]

There's a series on the DiAgostini site with general building instructions as well as tips on adding some paint. I was looking at the custom parts... and while they do look nice, I think initially I'll mostly stick with the kit parts, but add paint and weathering to them as they come in.

I haven't checked those out yet but was wondering if you experienced builders weather individual pieces or groups of pieces as the thing comes together. I've never attempted anything like this and will likely buy some cheap plane models to test on first...

 

[galactiboy]

I think some stuff you can do early on... like the cockpit, etc. But others like exterior weathering it might be better to do closer to the end.

TBH, I have very little experience with models so I'll probably do the same as you and get some other kits to practice techniques on. My two goals for models will be this piece and the 1/350 TOS Enterprise.

 

[Manhunto]

What is your opinion ppl whether this model without additional painting will look good? or it will be presented as Hasbro toy?

 

[galactiboy]

I think w/o any work done it will look decent, but a bit toyish. Just from the production pieces I saw at CVII it looked like solid work and better than you'd get on a toy, but very clean which doesn't work well with Star Wars. And it seems like the pieces have a bit of a shine to them which is probably the worst issue.

One tutorial I saw has a person completely repainting the entire thing which should be pretty impressive once done. Another I saw a person was just adding weathering using one of the Tamyia weathering kits and it also looked quite good. So I think there's probably a good balance point for all of us on how far to take the work on this.