Hasbro 29" Millennium Falcon Conversion

[Jaitea]

Ohhh, this is gonna look soo good!

J

 

[Junkie]

Awesome video man. I'm stoked to watch this project move forward.

 

[cargoman5126]

Very cool..luv the resin and PE will have to order that for mine...thanx for the info...

 

[nicholassagan]

Wait what was the surprise? I watched it earlier...didn't catch it...

 

[JohnSimmons]

Lol cheers guys, Nick err the surprise was the announcement that Randy's offering a Resin Hasbro Falcon upgrade kit as a prize for the Big Spring Contest.... ;D

 

[Cash]

Great looking kit.

 

[nicholassagan]

Oh ho HO! But what if you win???

 

[JohnSimmons]

Me? I'll bump it down
Cheers Cash

 

[dano985]

This is going to be so sweet!

 

[JohnSimmons]

Thanks mate, hope so!

 

[Chris S]

Lol no, but I am doing a chopper now.....again blame that on Adam.

Oh and Chris S, you really need to get a choppa of yer own!!!!

Lol ,I already got a Choppa ,but I dont think I can post the pics here ;D ;D

Chris.

 

[JohnSimmons]

No I wouldn't do that if I was you Chris! :-X

 

[Jaitea]

Randy's pieces look brilliant, looking forward to your paint job on them John

Dunno if I'd mentioned, to make cutting the plastic easier, warm it up a little,.....you'll not need to use as much force to cut through it then,.....I managed not to cut myself, but over in RPF there was reports of guys making repair jobs to fingers & thumbs with superglue,.....and cleaning blood off their Falcons

C'mon wheres the photos?

J

 

[JohnSimmons]

lol thanks for the tips J! I should be starting this very soon dude

 

[adampolo13]

lol thanks for the tips J! I should be starting this very soon dude

Watch out for the bloody falcon fingers! LOL!!!

Are you done yet?

 

[Jaitea]

Randy now has a Resin landing gear boxes set:

http://www.modelermagic.com/?p=68276

J

 

[JohnSimmons]

Lol almost Adam. Thanks J, looks like a killer set. But mines going to fly!!!!.....I hope. I sent you a FB message By the way John. I'm hoping to get cracking on this tonight and finally make a start on it.

 

[JohnSimmons]

Work has started! A quick brew then it's off to work:

So after about 60 screws lol we have it apart:


Noticed an imperfection blob on the bottom of the hull :-X

The Falcon as previously stated looks good.....but some off it is.....bad. Like this bit:

It looks like this on my FM 1/72 one:

So it was time for some cuttin, the plastic is difficult to work with compared to styrene. But JT have me a good tip about heating it up which helps....so does a drill 8)

A quick saw....

And that's that....it's not pretty but is got it where it counts

 

[nicholassagan]

What a mofo.

 

[Junkie]

Awesome work man, this is gonna be wicked.