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Did anyone build their own Millennium Falcon?
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<blockquote data-quote="subzero" data-source="post: 455795" data-attributes="member: 9185"><p>Thanks guys, it's the actually the first model iv'e ever made & painted, iv'e never done modelling before but iv'e always been artistic anyway which helped me. The painting can definitely be tricky if you've never done a model on this scale because of the sheer amount of hull pieces, because if you subscribe over 2 years you're getting all different random pieces every month for that long. And you need to make sure to can match up the paint so when it's all finally being put together it perfectly matches, or you can just buy the entire kit for about £800 and paint everything in one go with the same batch of paint.</p><p></p><p>If you subscribed over 2 years it's £900, is it worth that straight out of the box unpainted?, i'd personally say no because I think it looks like **** unpainted, it neeeeds to be painted and done so it at least looks somewhat authentic otherwise it will just look like a large basic plastic toy with no details. All in with paints, airbrushes, lots of other materials and quite a few small 3D printed parts ( custom aftermarket parts ) iv'e ended up paying around £1500 altogether to get it to look like a genuine Falcon, so if a good looking one is what you're after expect to pay more than the bare model cost. Would I pay £1500 for it if I seen it in a shop?, probably not, but to me it was still worth every penny because I enjoyed every minute working on it and have the studio scale model iv'e always wanted.</p><p></p><p>if you're going to take this project on and add paint and custom work then be prepared to do A LOT OF WORK!! :lol: this was literally a second job for me for 2 years, I spent about a good 30 hours a week on this every week for 2 years, worth it in the end though if you get good results from it. You also need lots of spare space for keeping parts that are waiting to be worked on and obviously for when it's finished to display.</p><p></p><p>Yes i'm planning on taking some better high res pictures of the entire model within the next month or two, and i'll be posting them with the rest of my toy collection in the showcase thread so keep an eye out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="subzero, post: 455795, member: 9185"] Thanks guys, it's the actually the first model iv'e ever made & painted, iv'e never done modelling before but iv'e always been artistic anyway which helped me. The painting can definitely be tricky if you've never done a model on this scale because of the sheer amount of hull pieces, because if you subscribe over 2 years you're getting all different random pieces every month for that long. And you need to make sure to can match up the paint so when it's all finally being put together it perfectly matches, or you can just buy the entire kit for about £800 and paint everything in one go with the same batch of paint. If you subscribed over 2 years it's £900, is it worth that straight out of the box unpainted?, i'd personally say no because I think it looks like **** unpainted, it neeeeds to be painted and done so it at least looks somewhat authentic otherwise it will just look like a large basic plastic toy with no details. All in with paints, airbrushes, lots of other materials and quite a few small 3D printed parts ( custom aftermarket parts ) iv'e ended up paying around £1500 altogether to get it to look like a genuine Falcon, so if a good looking one is what you're after expect to pay more than the bare model cost. Would I pay £1500 for it if I seen it in a shop?, probably not, but to me it was still worth every penny because I enjoyed every minute working on it and have the studio scale model iv'e always wanted. if you're going to take this project on and add paint and custom work then be prepared to do A LOT OF WORK!! :lol: this was literally a second job for me for 2 years, I spent about a good 30 hours a week on this every week for 2 years, worth it in the end though if you get good results from it. You also need lots of spare space for keeping parts that are waiting to be worked on and obviously for when it's finished to display. Yes i'm planning on taking some better high res pictures of the entire model within the next month or two, and i'll be posting them with the rest of my toy collection in the showcase thread so keep an eye out. [/QUOTE]
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