Constantine
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- Nov 30, 2014
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Hello Everyone,
Hello,
New to this site, but I have been looking around for the last few days and like what I see. I have been back to modeling in the last 12 years or so since I was a kid in the 70's. And thanks to the internet and sites like this I have learned alot. I just about finished with our new hobby room and will post some pics soon of it. I am also not too far from our Canadian neighbors here in northern MN, winter is such a good time to build models.
I am doing some research on the MPC falcon and have came across some excellent modifications by builders like, John Martin, Jaitea, Haystack Hair, and others.
I have the 1/72 FM MF and plan to make that as movie authentic as possible, but my goal for the MPC is different.
I really admire and have been inspired by you guys who did some radical surgery on the MPC kit, it looks like so much fun and a challenge. Sometime I think poor kits can improve a builders skills better than a good one.
So I want to repeat what I have seen so I can learn and do for myself. I also want this MPC build to be a newer looking falcon. And change some of the details quite a bit. But I want to keep to the basic measurements. And I am confused on one.
On this thread - Help with the sidewalls http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/SMF/index.php?topic=4662.0#
Jaitea has kindly listed many of the necessary measurement to improve the MPC kit. I am confused though on the length of the canopy as, (length 28.14). I am assuming he means mm, but even with that the length of the canopy /cone seems really small with that. Can anyone give me some insight with that.
Thanks guys for documented your work so well, it fun to see how people work and solve building issues.
Thanks
Hello,
New to this site, but I have been looking around for the last few days and like what I see. I have been back to modeling in the last 12 years or so since I was a kid in the 70's. And thanks to the internet and sites like this I have learned alot. I just about finished with our new hobby room and will post some pics soon of it. I am also not too far from our Canadian neighbors here in northern MN, winter is such a good time to build models.
I am doing some research on the MPC falcon and have came across some excellent modifications by builders like, John Martin, Jaitea, Haystack Hair, and others.
I have the 1/72 FM MF and plan to make that as movie authentic as possible, but my goal for the MPC is different.
I really admire and have been inspired by you guys who did some radical surgery on the MPC kit, it looks like so much fun and a challenge. Sometime I think poor kits can improve a builders skills better than a good one.
So I want to repeat what I have seen so I can learn and do for myself. I also want this MPC build to be a newer looking falcon. And change some of the details quite a bit. But I want to keep to the basic measurements. And I am confused on one.
On this thread - Help with the sidewalls http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/SMF/index.php?topic=4662.0#
Jaitea has kindly listed many of the necessary measurement to improve the MPC kit. I am confused though on the length of the canopy as, (length 28.14). I am assuming he means mm, but even with that the length of the canopy /cone seems really small with that. Can anyone give me some insight with that.
Thanks guys for documented your work so well, it fun to see how people work and solve building issues.
Thanks
