April 30, 2016

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....


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  3. Hello Chris,
    I carefully followed your blog and I admire your work!
    I also subscribe to the edition "DeAgostini Millennium Falcon."
    your work on lighting is great and I want to do the same.
    could you give me more information on the type of equipment used, the wiring schematics of its location on the model?
    a big thank you in advance.
    I'm looking forward to following your blog.

    see you soon.

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    1. I don't have any schematics. I'm doing it on the fly. At this point, some of it isn't set in stone yet and won't have a permanent placement to further along in the model. But as for LEDs and fiber optics, I buy them on Ebay.

      FIBER OPTICS
      http://www.ebay.com/itm/175ft-25mm-Colored-FIBER-OPTIC-FIBER-Sci-fi-Models-etc-FREE-illuminator-/371635118845?hash=item56872de2fd

      LEDs on EBAY
      just search for 3mm pre-wired 9v either warm or cool white (your preference) LED.

      For the extremely small SMD LEDs I used for the wall sconce lighting on the long corridor, which are 3v, so you have to wire in groups of 3 for 9v power,

      http://www.ebay.com/itm/401036678472?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

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