Pt. 21 Hold Nav Chair and Headset

This is a rather small update.  Just been waiting for more parts to arrive to finish up the top portion of the hull.  About another month and I should have the rest of the pieces to put it all together.

In the meantime however, I purchased my first 3D printed 3rd party part for the Falcon.  I bought a Nav chair that goes in the hold.


So here we have the 3D printed chair.  It's printed in a transparent plastic.

I then primed the chair with gray primer.

After primming, I painted the chair silver (though it's hard to tell in the photo).  After which, I sprayed the chair with hairspray.  This creates a shield over the silver to protect the silver layer from more coats of black paint.

So now I have black paint over the chair. Because of the hairspray, I can then lightly scrape the black paint revealing the silver underneath, making the black look worn.

I then painted the cushions of the seat.

Next, I have a photo etch piece of a headset that is worn in the chair for communications.  I also have several other of these headsets to be used in the gunner ports once I begin work on those.

Once cut, I bend the headset over a paint brush handle to get the headset curve.

And then paint.

 

Then attached to the navigation chair.

 

 And a cable added to the headset.

And here we have the chair installed in the hold.

The hold is looking very realistic now.


So stay tuned.  MUCH MORE TO COME....