Shipment notification has been received... WOOOT!!!

It's HERE!!! It's HERE!!! SQUEEEE!!!!

Now to sit down and start reading Issue 1 in all its glory, then commence building Issue 1 parts. I'm promising myself that I will read every word of every book before building from that book in order to get the full benefit of all the Star Wars information packed into each issue!!

And the blueprint is SOOOOO cool! I opened it up to show my wife and she exclaimed, "Ohh god...where are we going to put that thing when its done?!?!?" LOL, I don't think she fully comprehended the size of this model. Ohh well, too late now! MUAHAHAHAH!

Well not an overly exciting night for my faithful followers, but quite awesome for me. I spent this evening reading all the articles in all 4 issues along with the build instructions. Loved the detailed information about the different ships and planets!! Of course the assembly instructions read like a TV series or an infomercial!!!

...you can put these together now.. Or wait for issue #3!!! Reminds me of "...in our next episode..."
...but wait there's more!!! Act now and you'll miss the fun of the parts coming in the next issue!!
...you can test the part for fitting, but don't attach it!! Don't glue it!!! Don't tighten it!!!

LOL, was very amusing for me and loved every minute of it. As suspenseful as watching Game of Thrones and wondering who is going to die next?!?!

Anyway, leaving the building of the first 4 issues for tomorrow night, then I'll settle in for the long winter as I impatiently await the next shipment :). More pics tomorrow viewers!!!

I have to say I found the accompanying magazines really good.Nice articles and interesting facts.

Alright ladies and gentlemen (mostly gentlemen me thinks) I have completed the build of Issues 1-4. Overall pretty easy to put together and the instructions were very clear. Just took me a little focus to figure out the orientation of the frame pieces in the pictures, but easy enough. Putting the stickers on was probably the most stressful part as they REALLY want to get stuck on there!!! I think the 4 holes in the front dash/flight panel are just slightly off, but not enough that I think it will cause me any issues later on.

Some of the parts are relatively loose. I figure permanent attachment will come at a later stage. The individual guns on the turret really like to fall out, which scared the crap outta me at first as I thought I had broken it. Also the levers in the cockpit next to each seat are loose and fall out with a little jiggling. Other than that everything fit really well together. I guess I could have taken more pictures of the build process, but seeing as this is a stock OOB build with no modifications, I think you all will get the idea.

BTW, I'm having a hell of time with the pictures and resizing them in photo bucket. Sometimes they look smaller at 450x600, and other times they look larger, I really don't get it. All of these pictures according to photo bucket are the same dimensions, but you can see the third picture is the size I was expecting. I may have to find another way to do the resizing of photos. It is a lot of steps to get the pictures uploaded, resized, and then linked here.

Cockpit fully assembled but nothing is fixed/glued into place. Levers spin loose and fall out easily


Five pieces of framing attached together with one hull plate attached. Second hull plate that can't be attached yet is not shown.


Assembled turret sitting on the turret base/hull piece unattached.


The little game table all by its lonesome with sticker applied


My wife started saving all the random containers we get with food and other purchases. A little desert cup from Olive Garden works well to hold the screws while I'm building. Even has a top so I can keep all the extras together.


Now the long wait until the second pack arrives in about a month. Thank you all for watching, see you next time!!!

--Impatience

Great start Imp, can see I'm going to enjoy keeping up with your diary.... .. Well done...

Regards

Alan

Nice start Imp

Interesting facts:

* I received my shipment of the second pack yesterday. (Issues 5-8)
* I received the shipment notification for the second pack today.

Something may not be working as advertised :) Have I entered some time distortion portal or something?

Alright well, I was going to wait to do anymore of build until I had stopped by my local hobby shop and picked up some more supplies, but I couldn't wait. WAIT!! Hobby shop you ask? But Impatience, you said you were going to do an OOB build!! YOU PROMISED!! Well, I have to admit I've been tempted by other peoples build diaries as well as the instructions in booklets. I don't think I can resist popping some of the details out with dry brushing and doing a little weathering to the seats. I won't be painting the seats fully I don't think, but I will be putting a little of the watered down black paint into the grooves to give the seats some more depth. Probably going to do think ink method (once I figure out where to get ink) to the main hold flooring. Might even touch up the flooring grates with some dry brushing as well.

Anyway I digress...so what did I do today you ask? Well, really just a test fit of all the pieces in Issue 5. So here it is, everything put together as a test fit for Issue #5.



So thats it for tonight, as I watch more build videos from DeAgostini and Chris Falcon on YouTube.

Tomorrow I hit up the hobby store to pick up:

Black Paint
Silver Paint
Grey Paint
Light Grey Paint
Brushes
Files or Emery Board type sanding sticks
A cheap kit to practice the techniques on before committing them to a much more expensive Millennium Falcon :)

Thanks for watching!

Thanks Andy! Now, you wanna know how new I am to all this?

What is a Wash?

I do like the smoke. I'll be able to tell better what colors and types of paint I want when I get the test model and start applying colors to it to see what the effects look like. I'll also just have to see what brands the hobby store has.