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Build The Millennium Falcon
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Last two weeks i started some weathering using Oil paints. Firstly i just used them to put some general dirt and wear on the Viper. I sealed it first using some Matt Varnish, let that dry.
Then i brushed on a small amount of odorless Turpentine. Then dot on 3 different oil paints randomly. The with a flat brush and a small amount of the odorless turps just blend them in. its a small effect that doesnt really come across in the photos.
I let that dry for a week, then i used the oil paint "Starship Filth" and some more "dark rust" in a couple of places to create some streaking. With this you put a small amount of turps on the ship, then draw a small line with the oil and use a dry flat brush to blend it in.
I also used the oils on the back engines, I wanted them to look hot so used one called "engine grease" along with "dark rust" to give it a warm burning look. These had already been painted with "flat aluminium" Vallejo paint and a smoke wash before hand, then sealed with varnish.
Next up ill be adding some weathering to show damage from blasts and heat from the engines on the ship. ill also be weathering the engines you can see on the nose and back parts of the viper.0 -
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Little bit more progress.. use some "starship filth" oil paint on the engine bays, then wiped off with a piece of an old tshirt to add some dirt to them.
Also added some "burn" to the outside of this back part, there is an engine piece to go in there. Ill also do a similar effect around the other engine bay parts once the oil paint on them is dry.
I also added some dry brushed oil to some of the damage points around the ship as well.
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While waiting for oil paint on the viper to dry, i masked, primed and sprayed the cockpit glass a metalic silver colour. I wanted the metal outline over the glass and not just plonk a solid piece of canopy on the viper. So i masked off each pane, pressed down with a cocktail stick, then used a knife to gently trim the masking tape to size. The inside of the glass will be the colour of the primer, which is tamiya grey, the outside will be a mix of tamiya aluminum and flat grey.
Images below..
Im going to wrap this up over the next couple of weeks. Ive finally started the Falcon build in the background to this!! Ill post up some pics soon, but added a quick preview image to the end.. (excuse the cans, its christmas!)
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I still haven't finished off the Viper yet, BUT.. ive got a good bit done on the Falcon over christmas. Got a load of stuff boring stuff out of the way like washing all the hull pieces and even just opening up each package and sorting them. there is a lot of parts here.
I first finished screwing together the bottom hull frame..
I also wasnt happy with the factory made damage to the hull pieces, so broke out the dremel and made it look a bit more realistic. I forgot to take before photos except for the turret panel. Here is a photo of that and one other piece i used the dremel on, there are a lot more panels like this though..
This turret window also wasnt aligned right as per the falcon in the films, so i removed it and added back in where it should be.
I also glued together the pieces into a few of the hull recesses you can see on top and below the falcon, here is a couple. I primed these after these photos where taken as well.
I then started adding the bottom hull pieces onto the frame. each one clips on first and is then screwed on from the opposite side. Here is a photo with some of them on. actually you can see on these the factory made "damage"..
Once i had them all on i primed the entire piece with Tamiya white primer, i havent added on all the hull detail yet like little wires and "greeblies" etc i didnt want to put everything on there until after ive painted it the base colour.
I then started on the top hull framme and managed to get most of it done at this stage. here is a photo of it with the bottom primed hull
After this i done a lot more sorting and washed the hull pieces that go on the top frame.
It was great to get a good start on it, hopefully keep the ball rolling now!0 -
Hi, quick one, i started putting the hull pieces on the top frame. here is a few photos.
Also here is a photo of some primed pieces. that long piece is a spare piece i have from a second copy of one of the issues, so i primed that and am going to use it as a test piece so i can try each step like pre-shading, base colour etc on it before i do it on the main model, just to test out before i wreck the main thing!
EDIT: Actually looking at that photo you can see i put too much white primer on that test piece and it pooled in recesses, so lesson learned there!
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A lot of sorting of parts and building the recess ports for the falcon,all the little parts and pipes had to be glued into each of these "ports". Just getting them ready for priming now. Ive opened all the issues now and have the parts divided up into hull pieces, internal parts, and all the add on "greeblies" to go on the hull. Im not going to add the greeblies until after i have the base coat on the hull i decided. Ive to make a decision too if i want to get into adding extra leds. im not great with circuit boards and wiring etc so it would be a learning from scratch type of thing if i go down that road.
Ive decided im going to do some modification of the internal room and corridors in the falcon. the room with the alien chess table etc is in there. I think it needs some work to make it look right. Thats down the road a bit though. Im also going to mod the entrance ramp on it, it just doesnt look right, so im going to add a mesh floor to it. The ramp has a motor so it actually goes up and down, the kit comes with a remote for this ramp and the internal\external lights that come with it. Ive already added a load of leds to the cockpit when i did that about two years ago, im just hoping i can add them to the existing wiring somehow, we will see.
I also bought a base for the viper, but the piece of landscape i bought is too small to fit in the photo frame i planned on using. so i either need a new smaller frame or bigger piece of grass. Some photos of the viper with the cockpit on below and the piece of grass. along with the recess ports and some other parts to be primed from the falcon. Viper just needs to be sealed with some varnish and the canope glued on, then do the base and its finished. I did want to find some landscape grass that was long grass and somehow brush it up the middle so the grass is blowing to the sides as if the viper is blowing the grass outwards from itself as its flying, but i cant seem to find a landscape with grass long enough to do this!
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small falcon update.
Spent a lot of time building more parts (all the legs, more of the top hull) and priming. below you can see 1 of the larger double legs before and after priming. there are 2 of these and 3 smaller single legs.
I also built more of the top of the falcon and primed it. had some issues priming some of the cockpit shell, i think it might of been the humidity outside. Im using tamiya rattle cans to prime but it didnt look right and i got some pooling in places. so im going to have to sand them down and prime again.
I also done some testing of the base coat paint. im using DOA Falcon paints, these airbrush straight on without thinning. i tested it on a spare piece i had and it looks good. i was worried because i bought these two years ago and wasnt sure if they had gone weird in the bottle since then but they look good. you can see the colour on some of the port recess pieces below. These colours are apparently an exact match to the filming studio model.
I also bought a new airbrush as my cheap 20 quid one wasnt up to the task of painting this right. so ive a Iwata dual action airbrush on the way. i needed something half decent to spray the grey panel lines on the hull before i put the base coat on.
Ive been thinking a lot about the internal hold (the room from the film with the chess table etc) as this is part of the model. i want to add some extra lighting to it and to mod the floor and some other parts as building it as is doesnt really look realistic. So im going to get some paragraphics kits for this. they are metal sheet pieces you cut off and add to the hold. ill also be scratch building some parts as well for wall recess as well as the little hole in the floor where han is trying to fix the hyperdrive in empire, this floor hole isnt included in the model. anyways thats down the road a bit.
as for the LED lights etc, ive no experience really using them and am not sure how to power them in the final model, if i can add them to the board that powers the lights that come with the kit or what. ive been looking at breadboards etc for wiring but honestly im lost and have to do a bit more research into it.
anyways enough waffle, here is some photos.
Top hull primed images
base coat on some of the recess ports, these will be weathered etc to look dirty.
One of the larger double legs before and after priming.
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quick update, ive been trying to figure out what to do with the base of the viper.i got this grass sample in B&Q the weekend. im trying to have the grass blowing out with a split up the middle so it looks like the motion of the viper flying is blowing the grass away from the middleÞneath of it.
So, as weird as it sounds i got a brush out and brushed the grass sideways. haha..
its current sandwiched under a plank of wood in an tempt to flatten the grass in each direction. ill leave it there for a week and see what happens!
cutting to size..
its actually hard to capture in a photo but this is after brushing a bit with a split up the middle.
Grass under the plank and being weighted down to flatten out more
I also threw together a quick table to build\spray the falcon on.
and my new airbrush arrived!
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Tried out the airbursh yesterday on a test piece before doing anything on the falcon itself.
had this spare piece with tamiya white primer applied, badly. I dont know if it was the humidity in the air outside when i sprayed it or what (from a can) but you can see it didnt go on right.
Anyways, i used this piece to test the airbrush. using Vallejo german grey i darkened the panel lines.
Then after that dried i sprayed on the falcon base colour im using. I think it turned out ok, you can see some dark shading coming through from underneath. When this dries ill spray a small, slightly whiter colour just in the centre of each panel to give it some more depth.
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Optimus Prime wrote: »quick update, ive been trying to figure out what to do with the base of the viper.i got this grass sample in B&Q the weekend. im trying to have the grass blowing out with a split up the middle so it looks like the motion of the viper flying is blowing the grass away from the middleÞneath of it.
So, as weird as it sounds i got a brush out and brushed the grass sideways. haha..
its current sandwiched under a plank of wood in an tempt to flatten the grass in each direction. ill leave it there for a week and see what happens!
Have you seen 'static grass' as used in other forms of modelling (trains primarily)? It really is the best way to represent grass in any scaled down version.
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Thanks a lot, ill look into it! Im just being lazy trying to get it in a sheet haha
Got a good bit done today on the pre-shading, still not 100% happy with my air brushing but ill figure it out, i seem to get 20 minutes from it then i have to start fiddling with it, not sure if thats normal, it starts acting up, not spraying, etc..
anyways, quick image! They look weird with the black lines, but the falcon colour will sort that out.
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I finished the base for the viper, not really happy with it, but im moving on.. for now.. the grass looks too fake.
Still struggling with blockages in the air brush, just cant seem to figure it out. It sprays, stops, sprays, like its blocked.. im completely cleaning it tonight but need to buy some proper air brush scrubber things.
I still managed to get some base coat on some pieces
1 Coat on here.. let that dry but decided too much of the panel shading was showing through, so put another coat on when it dried.
Second Coat, i think this looks better.
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Optimus Prime wrote: »No ive never tried that , ive seen it alright but havent got any yet, ive just sprayed vallejo straight from the bottle after a good shake. if you want to thin it down a bit though you can use tamiya x20a thinner. ive done that before.
I bought a bottle of the Vallejo Flow Improver (for WHEN I start back modelling
), after that video you showed me. Seems to be the job, as it's more than just thinning, it has other agents in it that prevent the paint drying too quickly (which is what I reckon could be happening to you). Also, everything I've read about the Vallejo Model Air states you can't, or shouldn't, use it direct from the bottle. Are you thinning enough for spraying?
Also, incredible work above man, hats off!0 -
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Quick update on it, got some work on the boarding ramp done during the snow. wasnt happy with how the original looked, the instructions tell you to paint the ramp floor grey, but i wanted to go a bit further with it.
First i sprayed some preshading panel lines using vallejo german grey on the ramp and other parts off it. I airbrushed the walkway part completely with it.
I had these modeling decking sheets id bought ages ago lying around
So i cut up a couple of these with a knife to fit the ramp
I then sprayed them using the german grey front and back
While that was drying i masked off the grey walkway part and gave the rest of it two coats of the DOA falcon paint.
So i ended up with this
Once all that was dried i glued on the decking
I damaged the paint in some places so i touched it up using some brushed on german grey, then i dry brushed on some vallejo aluminum to make it looked like it was scuffed in places. looks much better than just painting it grey i think.
Once that drys in ill seal it with some matt varnish before it gets added to the rest of the falcon model. their is also a motor mech that needs to be added to this part to open and close the ramp using a remote.
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