My good friend Ian Gittins has come up with another impressive model I'd love to share with you. It's an incredible reworking of a Star Wars toy.
In Ian's words:
"My son asked me to make his Millennium Falcon look like the one in the movie, so I jumped at the chance. I got a bit carried away with the whole process and added some extra parts along the sides of the ship, most of which you'll be familiar with.
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| The original toy without any extra additions. |
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| A couple of bits and pieces added by Ian. Panther bits? Or Tiger bits? |
Overall it's taken me about a month to complete.
I didn't go all out for movie accuracy, I just went with what felt right and I tried to do as much as possible whilst we had the warm weather because spray painting a model that size had to be done outside.
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| Lots of pre-shading to vary the final paint finish. |
The diameter of the Falcon is a whopping 52cm and the length is 74cm ... I think I used about a litre of paint on it too!
With any luck I'll get a call from Lucasfilm with a job offer to work on the next Star Wars movie!"
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| The finished result. Superb. |
I love the effort that went into this. It's gone past just an exercise in practising weathering techniques, to becoming a full re-working of an existing build into something much, much more than what it started as. I like how Ian has realised the limitations of the "toy" he was working with, improved that where he can by adding scratch built detail, and then elevated the whole thing with some great painting and weathering.
Now the big question: is your son still allowed to play with it Ian? ;)
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Cheers,
Dave
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