What are the best 3rd party add-on's? Are they necessary? Shapeways, don't need too much though - Greeblies

If you take your time, have some tools, and are able to do some basic weathering, you can make a very nice replica out of the box. Look up some tutorials- there's plenty of videos on this kit.WIth regards to paint, acrylic or lacquer paints seem to be ok. Not sure on enamels. With washes, be careful using anything enamel based as the plastic has a habit of reacting adversely to the thinners used to wipe them off. I tend to spend more time cleaning my best natural hair brushes. From time to time I even use wife's hair shampoo to help them last long.

He should fly through a halved tube. This is based on some film scenes, where he flies through the interior of the not yet finished Death Star, for example.https://bandai-hobby.net/sw/jp/special/millenniumfalcon_building_guide.html?fbclid=IwAR3FzdTXI4UEUYcfD3IxbkDKoANu3Jf6DzSzXzBheXAZ6tspg6pbncpS-nA

Then I have pinned (with 0,3 mm drill its quite durable and quite cheap) the figures and wait for UHU epoxy to cure. I like to use kitchen oven to fast and hsrd cure epoxy. I set teperature ~ 55C ( it can be even higher i think - the higher then the binding gets stronger) and bake glued parts for an 1 hour. before baking remove any exces of anwanted epoxy with IPA alkochol. Just do some test with spare parts and dont melt it with your oven. I dont use AC glue. From my point of vie its a garbage. I would like to share with You some knowledge about painting as I suggested in my previous post. Han sems to ge a good example. I will give You some step by step. Final construction begins with the new three-part rectangular dish, the cannon assemblies top and bottom, and ends with a choice of gear up or gear down. If choosing the gear up option, simple clip-in blanking plates are installed over the five bays. The gear down option is more complex, and involves building up seven two-part legs, then joining them to the upper gear legs and bay insert pieces, to which you add the gear bay doors. The double legs have one slightly different leg each, but the same process applies. When they are complete, you just slot them into the bays, and they're done, remembering to keep the gear-up covers in case you change your mind. The crew access ramp has a retracted option too, and a three-part assembly that includes the ramp walls, actuator struts and the walkway itself. Detail here is great, looking just like the movie, and as with the landing gear you can swap and change at whim. There's no right or wrong way to do it. You just have to do it your way but always push yourself a tiny bit to do something that takes your builds to the next level.Apply the decals first after removing the surface details. Otherwise I would have had problems with Microsol myself. Do not steer paint with best brushes (the paint can get into ferrule and cure there damaging the hair structure). Try to hold paint in the brush only in its belly and tip (far from ferrule). I'm massively impressed with the kit, and have a growing respect for Bandai as a company. Their designers have incredible talent for easing construction, using clever techniques to do so, and their implementation of detail is out of this world. Putting the two kits together is very telling. I for one would be very interested in another kit of the Episode IV Falcon, if anyone is listening? Everything I've seen suggests that no-one paints this with brushes, it's all sprayed. Is this right? To all Star Wars fans who have been committed to that wish, here is what Bandai has to offer. Here is the ultimate Millennium Falcon. Reproducing the Finest Details