Thank you sir! And thank you for the support.
Your Friend’s, Ezra & Toshi
Here are top and bottom of the Falcon Primered with some 3M primer.
Some lines highlighted in black Testors Gloss enamel. Weathering to be done a little later with a light gray/white base coat. Fueselauge is dry fitted and assembled, only the landing gear is cemented.
Why do I have 3 landing gears and in other Star Wars movie the Falcon has 7? Including the Bandai Falcon.
Correct me if I’m wrong but accordingly before “A New Hope”, during Han Solos famous 12 parcep Kessel run, he damaged several landing gears and never got them repaired till the “Empire Strikes Back” episode. Or so I’ve read.
Still it is a very cool kit with 7 or 3 landing gears. I also remember my younger brother had a very large Kenner Falcon toy that was also a cut-away.
Your friend’s, Ezra & Toshi
Looks really cool!
I have no idea how many landing gear the Falcon has. Never noticed. Now if it were the Enterprise I’d fill you in on pointless useless trival details till your ears bleed. [:P]
Still she’s cool no matter how many landing legs she has.
Masking of the gun/laser pod canopy.
I never noticed myself. My younger brother had a Kenner Falcon with three landing gears so I never looked into it. Until I saw “The Force Awakens” in where the derelict Falcon gets stolen by Ren and FN off of Jakku. At one point the Falcon can be clearly seen with seven landing gears trying to take off sideways while scrapping the ground. I also watched the Falcon land on Cloud City on “Empire Strikes Back”. It also clearly shows seven landing gears.
To verify this, I googled Millennium Falcon Landing gears. And seven was what I saw except in “A New Hope” In which there were three. I learn something new everyday. Lol!
Your friend‘s, Ezra & Toshi
Yeah, never noticed it till a friend was talking about it. He had some kit that had an option to build either the original or the ‘ESB’ version.
Nice work there masking off the windows. Forgot just how many the Falcon actually had!!
Like I mentioned, I too had no idea until a little research turned up this information regarding the Falcons tricycle landing gear. Thank you Gamera for your support and kind words on my canopy/cannon masking. This is all thanks to Members like you of whom supported me in my WWII aircraft builds.
Your friend’s, Ezra & Toshi
Landing dock walkway.
Corellian Engineering Corporation or CEC
YT-1300F light freighter
Pre-shading for the purpose of weathering. Final coat of light gray, Dolphin gray, and white mixture to be applied next.
Oh, very cool! The pre-shading really turned out nice. SW always look better a little dirty and dinged up!
This looks great! I have this exact same kit in my closet, will be starting it in a few months hopefully
I will be closely following this thread
I’ve always had trouble breaking up large painted surfaces. You make it look so easy, Toshi.
Looking good. [Y]
Thank you Gamera. I took what I learned from all members builds. Still learning.
Your Friend’s, Ezra & Toshi