Pt. 15 Hold Walls

So I've been working on the hold wall opposite the game table.  The kit wall is very plain.  Nothing but the arch corridor and the little engine room corridor to the left.  No detail what-so-ever.


Oh, after a little photo research, I also redid the wall behind the navigation console.  There's actually a framework around the cutout.  So I did the framework with some styrene and placed it over the cutout I had done and changed the greeblys a bit behind it.

And finished, and in place.Not perfect, but it's extremely small.

So back to the wall.  There's a 3rd door left off of the model and some more little cutouts for cables and such that has been left out. So I decided to add them of course.

So I put some painters tape on the part and drew out where I was going to cut.

And not primed.  I also added with some more styrene, the little framework around the 2 curved cutouts.

As with the first arch, I cut the arch piece out to match more closely the way it is in the movie.

The door to the left of the arch just leads to nothing and black in the model kit.  In reality it leads to an engine room where Han and Leia have their first kiss.  So what I've done, for now anyway, is I managed to find a shot in the movie where the doorway is visible in the background, and I took a still shot and printed it out in hi-res on a piece of presentation board and placed it behind the door, kinda of adding the illusion of another room back there.

I may actually try to use real model bits and pieces to create and actual room, but this will do for now. 

Next up, there's a light on the wall between the arch and doorway.  So I cut out a little oval piece from an old Falcon kit that was roughly the right size and shape.  I then used my Dremel and  hollowed out the inside for an LED light to fit.

Once that was done, I drilled a hole in the wall where the light will go and put an LED bulb through.

Light fixture fits perfectly.  

But as you notice in the movie in this photo...




there are 3 black stripes across the light fixture.  There's no way I'm going to be able to paint lines that thin and clean.  So I got some very thin wire, painted it black, and stretched it around the fixture, which actually works much better, because of the depth.

And there it is on the wall.

Time to add more of the wall detail.  You can see in this photo the trim added.  And there's also metal framework around the curved portion of the doorway to the right.  I was thinking of doing this with more styrene, but opted to try with some wire, which I painted gray.

Then glued in place...

Added the secondary piece....

Then cut little pieces to go between

Now it turns out that not only did the photo etch I purchase come with the floor, but also correctly detailed arch pieces.  So, after all the work I did in cutting the arch and making grooves in the back for cables, I decided to use the photo etch because of the accuracy.

So for starters, painting the arch.

I then cut little styrene pieces to go in the arch to support the arch frame, and where I could place wires inside of for cables and hose.  You can see the 9 little pieces sticking out from the arch.

Then attached the cushions...

Then added wire and the photo etch arch piece.  Cables being visible behind.

I then added more wire on the wall and inside the curved cutouts to the right, trying to make it as accurate as possible to the look in the film.

And here we are with the working light.

I then got some little pieces from my old Falcon model and filed them down, glued them together and attached them to the far right of the wall with a hose for more realism.  I also added another little piece to the upper right of the light as some type of breaker or circuit panel along with some wires running to it.










I've also decided it would look much better if the circuit room on the left was real rather than a photo.  So I gathered some more pieces from an old Falcon model and used them to create a faux circuit room.


So I began by picking 2 pieces for walls.

 

I then cut them down and glued them together.

Then a paint job and weathering...

 Added a floor...

And attached to the backside of the wall, creating the circuit room.

And lit...

 

Well, that's it for now.  Next up I plan on doing the beams of the hold.

So stay tuned.  MUCH MORE TO COME....

Pt. 14 Hold floor and corridors

I had created a replica flooring to have printed in photo etch, but upon seeking out a company to print it for me, discovered that it would cost upwards of $300 to have printed because of the companies having to create a master to print from.  So as luck would have it, an actual model photo etching site is selling one they created.  So I purchased the photo etch and finally received it.

The photo etch detail is fantastic and looks great.   I want to have at least one of the floor hatches open.  So I'm having to cut out holes in the model floor.

Now priming and painting the floor.

 

There are i-beams in the floor of the Falcon, so I'm cutting some little strips of styrene to insert into the floor hatch for beams.

Using some EL (electro luminescent) wire, I want to have the surround of the floor hatch illuminated as in the movie.  So I've wrapped the frame with the wire and used hot glue to hold the wire in place and run the power wire out the side of the floor.

A shot of black paint before laying down the photo etch.

 





So here we are with a test run of the floor lighting.  I like the way this is looking.

I also received the last 2 corridor sections of the interior and got them assembled.

 The corridor for the opposite side of the hold

And the corridor to the gunner station of the Falcon.

 

And I received some more framework and hull pieces.  This is getting  BIG.

Well, that's it for now.  Still much more to come.  Been doing a lot of extra detailing of the interior of the hold.  So....


Stay tuned.  MUCH MORE TO COME.....