NecronautDrummer
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Good day, addicts!
I committed to DeAgostini's Studio Scale 32" Falcon 2 year subscription. You can read LordSatyr8's build thread for his Deagostini Falcon if you're unfamiliar with it. My second month of parts is getting delivered any day now, so here's what I've been working on with the first month's set of parts.
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The first complaint that everyone has with this kit is the window position of the gun turret. From the factory, it's glued in so the window frames are at the 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock positions. However, reference pics clearly have the windows themselves at these positions. It's a simple matter of chucking the part in the freezer for 20 minutes to get the glue all brittle, then repeatedly scoring the inside seam with the back of your hobby knife, until you can pop out the window. Trim the factory locating tab off, then glue it back in position.
The plastic for the hull plates appears to be ABS, so your traditional styrene glues won't work. Some sort of MEK solvent, such as Tenax or Deluxe Plastic Magic cement will work a treat as a weld-action glue to secure parts such as this together in their correct position.
The seats have kind of a horrible paint job from the factory. The front seats are a red leather color, while the rear seats are just straight black. I repainted them, starting with a coat of Tamiya Surface Primer. The front Porsche seats got a coat of XF-49 Khaki through the airbrush. I then stippled them with some XF-55 Deck Tan. I applied a couple Citadel Badab Black washes, drybruhed them with some Vallejo Green Brown, did a small pin-wash between the cushions of a little Citadel Devlan Mud wash, then finished them with a little Mig Dark Mud pigment.
The rear seats got airbrushed with XF-16 Flat Aluminum, then they were coated with some hairspray to chip them later. After a coat of NATO Black through the airbrush, I used a toothpick to scrape off some of the black paint. The seat cushion are just XF-49 Khaki brushed on, then coat with Citadel Devlan Mud wash. I did apply some AK Light Dust pigment, and alit Mig Dark Mud pigment too, just to dull down the black.
I committed to DeAgostini's Studio Scale 32" Falcon 2 year subscription. You can read LordSatyr8's build thread for his Deagostini Falcon if you're unfamiliar with it. My second month of parts is getting delivered any day now, so here's what I've been working on with the first month's set of parts.
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The first complaint that everyone has with this kit is the window position of the gun turret. From the factory, it's glued in so the window frames are at the 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock positions. However, reference pics clearly have the windows themselves at these positions. It's a simple matter of chucking the part in the freezer for 20 minutes to get the glue all brittle, then repeatedly scoring the inside seam with the back of your hobby knife, until you can pop out the window. Trim the factory locating tab off, then glue it back in position.
The plastic for the hull plates appears to be ABS, so your traditional styrene glues won't work. Some sort of MEK solvent, such as Tenax or Deluxe Plastic Magic cement will work a treat as a weld-action glue to secure parts such as this together in their correct position.
The seats have kind of a horrible paint job from the factory. The front seats are a red leather color, while the rear seats are just straight black. I repainted them, starting with a coat of Tamiya Surface Primer. The front Porsche seats got a coat of XF-49 Khaki through the airbrush. I then stippled them with some XF-55 Deck Tan. I applied a couple Citadel Badab Black washes, drybruhed them with some Vallejo Green Brown, did a small pin-wash between the cushions of a little Citadel Devlan Mud wash, then finished them with a little Mig Dark Mud pigment.
The rear seats got airbrushed with XF-16 Flat Aluminum, then they were coated with some hairspray to chip them later. After a coat of NATO Black through the airbrush, I used a toothpick to scrape off some of the black paint. The seat cushion are just XF-49 Khaki brushed on, then coat with Citadel Devlan Mud wash. I did apply some AK Light Dust pigment, and alit Mig Dark Mud pigment too, just to dull down the black.