Hi everyone!
First post, and I am slightly Star Wars knowledgeable.
I picked up four NOS unopened items to make a mini diorama above my tv. They all turned out to be less or as expensive as a mint opened items.
The Death Star wall night light fixture. Had to tame the beast, by adding a resistor to the led driver (200 ohm), and placed a white plastic grocery bag inside to diffuse and even out the lighting.
My Legacy Millennium Falcon, will be custom modded (being an electronics guru) and custom painted (externally). It will be flying away from my wall hanging Death Star night light fixture.
Since the engine lights are blue and not as bright as the Newer Galaxy's Edge Millennium Falcon, I will add a bit more white LEDs to make it look more like the film version, with blue halo around bright white. Painting will be easy peasy. As lighting is just right for original details. Using water based enamels (easily removed with Alcohol if reverting back to original) , with use of sponges and ear buds (Q-tips). Mostly to give a wash of space dust build up to release the features. Will add some battle marks and engine exhaust vent build up as well. No overly done details for studio mastering, as it will be placed 7 feet away from tv. Below is how the mock setup is coming out. Will add a back ground of some sort. For now I covered some pictures that may be unsuitable for public viewing. Ha!
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Because of scale and distance, I chose to use a Hallmark Darth Vader Tie Fighter to place far across the corner of our vaulted ceiling. Its large enough to notice... Look, it's Darth getting away!
My 4th item is a Power of The Force 2 X-Wing, with 12 sound effects. Because of its size, it will be placed some where to the left side of the Millennium Falcon, and a bit closer than on the film, but nothing will be true to the film to begin with.
I know most would have chosen the newest releases of the Millennium Falcon and X-Wing, but from video reviews, I find both older varients to be a nice option for sound and custom mods. Being that the newer items are more for collecting because of their painted authenticity for display or with collecting the unopened.
I will do similar painting with X-Wing engines, and space dust build up to add to the look. I think black battle marks may be too bold, so I will white wash them into a deep gray and over coat the outer edges with grey to fade.
I have been browsing various threads on the Hasbro action figures, as to what others have done. I did do one fun mod with the old Staples button that was fairly popular. I replaced the sound box with a recorder chip unit, and recorded R2D2 while being disabled by a Jawa. The Staples button is now a panic overload button. Ha!
First post, and I am slightly Star Wars knowledgeable.
I picked up four NOS unopened items to make a mini diorama above my tv. They all turned out to be less or as expensive as a mint opened items.
The Death Star wall night light fixture. Had to tame the beast, by adding a resistor to the led driver (200 ohm), and placed a white plastic grocery bag inside to diffuse and even out the lighting.
My Legacy Millennium Falcon, will be custom modded (being an electronics guru) and custom painted (externally). It will be flying away from my wall hanging Death Star night light fixture.
Since the engine lights are blue and not as bright as the Newer Galaxy's Edge Millennium Falcon, I will add a bit more white LEDs to make it look more like the film version, with blue halo around bright white. Painting will be easy peasy. As lighting is just right for original details. Using water based enamels (easily removed with Alcohol if reverting back to original) , with use of sponges and ear buds (Q-tips). Mostly to give a wash of space dust build up to release the features. Will add some battle marks and engine exhaust vent build up as well. No overly done details for studio mastering, as it will be placed 7 feet away from tv. Below is how the mock setup is coming out. Will add a back ground of some sort. For now I covered some pictures that may be unsuitable for public viewing. Ha!

Because of scale and distance, I chose to use a Hallmark Darth Vader Tie Fighter to place far across the corner of our vaulted ceiling. Its large enough to notice... Look, it's Darth getting away!
My 4th item is a Power of The Force 2 X-Wing, with 12 sound effects. Because of its size, it will be placed some where to the left side of the Millennium Falcon, and a bit closer than on the film, but nothing will be true to the film to begin with.
I know most would have chosen the newest releases of the Millennium Falcon and X-Wing, but from video reviews, I find both older varients to be a nice option for sound and custom mods. Being that the newer items are more for collecting because of their painted authenticity for display or with collecting the unopened.
I will do similar painting with X-Wing engines, and space dust build up to add to the look. I think black battle marks may be too bold, so I will white wash them into a deep gray and over coat the outer edges with grey to fade.
I have been browsing various threads on the Hasbro action figures, as to what others have done. I did do one fun mod with the old Staples button that was fairly popular. I replaced the sound box with a recorder chip unit, and recorded R2D2 while being disabled by a Jawa. The Staples button is now a panic overload button. Ha!