You'll have something nice to come home too, and the time between working on this upcoming delivery and the one after will be nice and short!!!

Love what I'm seeing so far! LOL thanks to all these build diaries I have waaaaay too many ideas as to what I'm going to do with my build... I wasn't interested in really sprucing up the interior portions other than the cockpit, but the more I see of them the more I want to! Already ordered some additional fiber for it as well!

Keep up the great work!

Thanks Stephan199. I just got back from a 2 week vacation and had more parts waiting for me when I got home. Itching to get back into it. More updates soon.

Ooh you are going to love all those little pads

If you are not going to paint the you could stick them all on and then file the edges with a flat file

I'm gonna be straight up honest.....I am dreading all those pads. That looks soooo tedious, but hey, what we do for our hobbies, eh? I agree with you, Colson, about waiting until they all come to do them. I'd rather prime and paint them all at the same time. However, I have zero patience so I'll probably start with the first batch .

Love Love Love what you are doing with the lighting, I was thinking of doing the fiberoptics as well but I was thinking for having like maybe 3 multi colored leds and some electronics to get them to cycle colors then run randomly the optic to the 3 different leds so that the lights will randomly change colors.

hmm, well thats the best part of how this build is over 25 months is it allows time to look at options and decide on whats best for you, and since I just got month 2 today I will have time to see yours progress more before I make the decision on how I want to try this, I already think I have convinced myself to go towards the Force Awakens Falcon since the radar section is already available.

[quote=colson]Been a while. I was on vacation for a couple of weeks and been doing home renovations the past couple weeks. I'm so itching to get back to the Falcon. Hopefully I'll start some more work on it this weekend.

HOWEVER, I just pre-ordered a photo etched floor for the Falcon hold. I had designed my own, but the expense to print a one off is in the hundreds. Paragrafix just posted a hold floor they designed which looks just great. And has some extras as well. So I can finally get my hold done the way I've been wanting.

Here's a link to the photo etch floor for anyone who is interested.

http://www.paragrafix.bi...ail.asp?PPartNum=pgx195[/quote]

I am new to photo etch and don't know how you use something like that. Any chance you can describe your plans and process for how this will fit into your build?

ALRIGHT. Well, after my 2 week cruise to Alaska, doing a photo album of the cruise for my wife, and a week and a half of home remodeling, I think I'm finally ready to get back into the groove. I've had 2 shipments arrive during this time. Packs 17 - 24. And here they are, in all their glory.
















So, with so many packs to work on now, I decided to do the easy part and assemble the framework. I wanna see how big this sucker it gonna be.









And I realized I haven't put on the little greebly pieces to the outer hull of the cockpit.








And I put together the bottom hull recess, since that's a pretty easy job.








And most of all. Upon looking through some reference photos of the Falcon to see about painting, I was looking over the 5 foot model used in Episode IV and noticed the additional raised pieces on the gun turret. So I decided to use some styrene and add said pieces to my model making it a little more detailed and accurate. So I cut out various squares and placed them in the appropriate location as in the 5 foot reference.





There's also a raised section on the top where the guns themselves attach, which you can see in this reference photo.







While I can't get it exactly the same, I did cut out a piece as close as possible to the shape on the 5 foot model. Because I was free hand cutting the styrene, it took me about 5 tries before getting the right one.







But I did get what I think is a pretty accurate representation and attached all of my pieces to the turret, and then primed for painting.







And once primed, I think it looks pretty good.







I also had originally said at the beginning of my forum posting that I was planning on keeping the Falcon parts with the paint job they arrived with and just adding additional weathering. Well, I CHANGED MY MIND. I've decided to paint the whole sucker from scratch.

So I primed all of the hull pieces to start the process. There's no going back now.

Nice job adding the extra details, Colson. I don't think you can get the right effect without repainting the hull. There is too much detail that just isn't there the way the pieces come. I'm working on the cargo hold and have been adding a few extras of my own. I'm even stealing your idea of cutting the extra holes in the wall behind the nav computer. Keep the ideas coming. Loving how your build is going.

Stephen