Roy's Build The Millennium Falcon-Part 4 (Issues 76 to 100A)

[royjess]

Gluing the figures together were trickier and took longer than I imagined. These took me a couple of days to make up to my satisfaction. Such tiny and delicate parts, and the plastic wasn't responding to the super glue well. The shapeways figure kit were design so that you can pose them. But they didn't look natural. When positioning them into the seated position, they were very wide legs as well as their arms were wide apart. So I had to modify them to for better poses as well as using filler in the gaps

SAM_5832 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

You may notice that I removed the lower legs of Chewbacca so that I can fit him into his seat without removing any of the cockpit parts. You won't see the lower limbs anyway as they are hidden below the cockpit console.

Ben Kenobi waist area was all built up using filler.

There weren't much room for stormtroopers limbs to be posed and they looked like robots, I wasn't happy with the poses. I wanted a more authentic looking pose, so I broke the arms off and re-position them. These were very fiddly to re-glue and I used filler to fill in the gaps in the joints.

Much better

SAM_5842 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

SAM_5844 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

SAM_5843 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

To be painted....

[Paint_With_Penny]

Loving this thread, thank you for posting.

Ive just started the Build The Millenium Falcon, just recieved pack 1, and Ill be doing my own build diary....after first reading yours. Just put together issue 2 and have to say, this is an excellent partwork, well, based on 2 issues.

[wingnut2]

Hi Roy, I hope it's only Chewys legs you cut

[royjess]

Loving this thread, thank you for posting.

Ive just started the Build The Millenium Falcon, just recieved pack 1, and Ill be doing my own build diary....after first reading yours. Just put together issue 2 and have to say, this is an excellent partwork, well, based on 2 issues.

Thanks Penny, I'll look forward to your diary build

Hi Roy, I hope it's only Chewys legs you cut

I've not got a clue what you are talking about?

[royjess]

It took me most of yesterday to paint the figures

SAM_5934 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

SAM_5937 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

Luke was too spread eagle to fit into the hold, so I broke his legs and re-positioned them again, not excatly screen acurate as during the escape from Mos Eisley, Ben removed his outer robe. I couldn't fit them all on the same seat, so Ben had to take a seat on the separated seat.


SAM_5944 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

SAM_5947 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

SAM_5950 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

Chewie and Han in the cockpit

SAM_5958 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

SAM_5952 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

SAM_5957 by Roy Lee, on Flickr

This thread is now complete and the diorama build for the Falcon continues here

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