This Millenium Falcon model was started back in early April shortly after we moved to our new studios. It started as a the Hasbro Rebels Millenium Falcon sold in the US exclusively at Walmart stores. In case you didn’t know, this Millenium Falcon came with little play value as a toy. It is pretty much a chunk of plastic with details halfway and the rest represented as peel-and-stick decals.
This one measure almost 29” inches. That’s 3” less than the Millenium Falcon prop built for Episode V ‘The Empire Strikes Back.’ The side wall are adorned with leftover parts accumulated over the years from tanks and other artillery model kits. Some of you might remember a post of the 3D printed engine grilles posted a few months ago. There’s a plethora of 3D printed parts should you decide to start this build which I consider to be a very fun and rewarding one.
Check 308bits store at Shapeways.com for 3D printed upgrades for this Falcon and any other versions of the Falcon of your choice.
The base color used to paint this Millenium Falcon was Tamiya Insignia White AS-20, Model Master Acryl Red Insignia and various shades of Tamiya XF’s grays. A water based wash was made with Apple Barrel 21490E ”Pavement” and ”Brown Oxide” 20511E. These are easy to find paints from the craft store. They were mixed 50/50 and diluted with around 80% water (8/2). The blast marks are mostly with the Aztek A-470 airbrush using the fine detail ‘Tan’ Nozzle, earth and gray tone pastels. Everything then was sealed with Testors Dullcote.
3mm, 5mm and fiber optic was used to light it up and runs on either 9v battery or 12v AC adapter.
I hope you can enjoy this conversion as well as the movie. If you have any questions, I prefer you contact me on the comments section below. If you do on Facebook it might take longer to get back to you. May the Force be with You!
UPDATE: More pictures
