I decided for the heck of it I'll work on the Slave 1, casually, slowly with what I do have as far as paints. No rush, I'm not even really gonna sweat the small stuff. I don't have everything as far as paints and tools, I need some liquid masking stuff to do the layers colours in the hull, the upper part and the rusted lower part. I'll need to place an order eventually, but for now I think I have everything I need to build the underside engine area and the wings, which are actually pretty cool in themselves. It's more layerd and detailed than anywhere else on the ship which is basically smooth. It's not like most other Star Wars ships. The engine area is the part you see leaving Bespin in The Empire Strikes Back.
The basic plate for the under as it comes in the kit has holes all over where these parts get layered on. Those circular engine parts are 3 pieces each, the 2 halves of the cylinder, and then the cone cap ring. The seams are not visible the way they sit inside.
Nice model. What you'd expect from Fine Molds. The only downside to Find Molds, Boba Fett's Slave 1 (in my opinion) is the model if pretty accurate in the details it's all there BUT Fine Molds released this version AND Jango's Attack of the Clones ship (1/144 scale) at the same time. I had that one too, but I gave it to my brother for Christmas one year. What they did was issue the main parts of the ship in both kits, the hull pieces, the underside and they are the same parts, and then different sprues of parts for things like the cockpits, which are different in both ships. The problem with that, is I think they sacrificed the accuracy of this model The Empire Strikes Back ship by making the ship more accurate to the Attack of the Clones ship. Certain parts look pretty much the same on both (the ESB ship is a physical model, AOTC is CG) like that T shaped piece, it's similar, but it's also slightly different in shape. It's sharper. Cleaner. Very slightly different. The practical prop model if you look at it, it's gimpy. It's not perfectly symmetrical. It is not noticable on screen, but hey… I'd like to see you build this thing from scratch even close to as good as the model ILM built. This Fine Molds model caters more to the CG AOTC model. I think even some of the white pieces on the side of the body are definitely more accurate to the AOTC CG model. They obviously figured why build 2 completely different models, when they're so similar, and since we're doing only one, we'll do it like the more perfect model.
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