Topic: Goldleaderone's Custom Vehicles

[Goldleaderone]

Here is something I quickly did today. I took the Disney Store Millennium Falcon and converted it into a The Force Awakens Millennium Falcon. It's just more then a simple radar dish swap. I had to do some dremeling and put some parts together to make it work. I feel the Titanium Ultra line from Hasbro in 2005 is far superior then Disney's. Now I'm not knocking Disney's line, I do like them. I just feel like Disney's line is somewhat of a continuation of the titanium ships, and that I would be buying doubles.

The radar dish I'm using is from the Millennium Falcon "value line" that was recently released. I was very disappointed with that Falcon, but it gave me the oppertunity to use the radar dish here.


Here's a step by step guide of how I did it:

First, using a dremel I took off the radar dish and the part it was attached to




Then, where the radar dish was, I dremeled a hole inside (which will come in use later)




I took a spare laser cannon from an Action Fleet X-wing from my parts bin, and cut the middle piece off (where the arrow is)




I cut off the clip that was on the radar dish as it wouldn't fit to my liking. I took the part of the laser cannon and cut the piece in half. Not exactly a clean cut, but that part will be on the inside anyway. I dremeled a little bit on the underside of the radar dish, and super-glued the laser cannon part inside. Then I spray painted it with a gray primer that was actually a close color match to the Falcon




Lastly, I put some tacky material around the laser cannon to tighten up the radar dish, as it was still quite loose. Complete!








Comparison shot: Hasbro's Titanium Ultra Falcon (left) and Disney Store Falcon converted into TFA Falcon (right)




I just feel like this Falcon should have been TFA version. Watch, now they will release that version soon knowing my luck lol.

[Tamer]

Pretty cool conversion. Let me go share that.

[Goldleaderone]

I finally learned the wash technique, and after a few runs I applied it to the Rogue One U-wing and TFA Millennium Falcon Revell kits. I never realized just how easy this was, and now I'm looking to go back and apply some washes to some of my past customs. These ships needed a wash, they were practically white, especially the U-wing.

[hemble]

Great work on both the Falcon and the U-wing you got the wash technic down pat.

Ron

[JDeck]

   They do look great. A little black wash goes a long way. Keep up the great work.

[Tamer]

Very nice. Off to share.

[FialaFernbrugg]

The weathering on both models look great.
What do you use for the "washing"? I use oil colours thinned with turpentine.

[Goldleaderone]

Thanks! I use Games Workshop Paints. I use Abaddon Black, and just take some of the paint and dip it into a cup of warm water until I have the right amount. I brush it on, and the brush I use has the bristles spread out. It works better then a normal brush. I let it sit for about 30 seconds, then wipe it off. Repeat as necessary.


I bought the Revell Rogue One Star Destroyer kit and applied a wash to it last night. This was another kit that was almost white. I did run out of black paint so I'm debating of giving this another wash or not when I get more. I do like how it came out but don't want it too dark.

[Tamer]

Looks good to me. I just saw Fiala reviewed this kit.

Definitely looks much better with a wash. Let me go share this.

[hemble]

Damn that really made the Revell SD look 100% better, awesome job mate.

Ron

[FialaFernbrugg]

I agree. It looks much better with a wash.
I will try a dark grey wash on my Revell SD.

[Goldleaderone]

How to change the astromech on the 30th Anniversary Y-wing without dremeling the molded-in astromech

Going through some old posts on Rebelscum, I've seen a few members dremel out the droid on this Y-wing. It was done very well and I wanted to give it a go, having just bought a dremel myself. I've got some practice under my belt, I've already been turning old figure heads into a ball-joint neck. I bought a used one on ebay, just the body of the ship, no engine parts for real cheap. I couldn't get the cuts right, the dremel kept skipping and would sometimes hit other parts of the ship. I just didn't feel comfortable doing it on the one I had. You could see afterwards all the cuts from the dremel, it would have looked obvious.

The other night I wanted to try something. On the spare Y-wing I took a flathead screwdriver and easily popped the astro off. Just place the screwdriver right under the silver ring. You will need the silver ring, as that is the part that clips into place. Taking my dremel, I cut where the silver squares are on the "neck", just above the silver ring. Keep going around until you're able to just pull it apart. (picture 1)

Then I filed down the silver ring where it was cut off, so it would be even. Lastly I super-glued it to the underside of the red R5 unit's head. The R5 head is from Disney's Build-A-Droid line. I let it set, then afterwards you can pop it back on, and it still rotates like normal. (picture 2)

I still have to clean up the area a bit around the neck. I just wanted to share, with this being another means of swapping out the astro.

[Tamer]

Nice fix. Let me go share it.

[Goldleaderone]

Been a while since I did an Action Fleet custom. This is my custom Partisan X-wing from Rogue One.  It's definitely one of the hardest ones I've done so far. I wanted to have this done before Rogue One came out. I should really stick to my deadlines. Being on vacation from work has its benefits.

[Tamer]

Oh yeah, very nice. Off to share.