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"Come on, BB-8!" |
In the build up the Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Bandai released a series of models to tie in to the movie, including a 1/144 scale Millennium Falcon as she appears in the new movie, a 1/72 scale Resistance T-70 X-wing, and two 1/12 scale figure kits: a First Order Stormtrooper and an R2-D2/BB-8 combo kit. The Artoo is just a repackaging of the
one released in the spring of last year. However, the main draw of this kit is the everybody's favorite adorable new droid, BB-8! I'm not going to do an out-of-box review of this kit but if you're so interested, one from Stevethefishdotnet can be found
here on YouTube.
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"He's one of a kind!" |
I went back and forth on whether or not I wanted to paint this kit. I was leaning towards "not" because I wanted this build to be the thing to break the modeling funk that I've been in the entire month of December. After thinking about for the better part of a day, I decided that I would paint the entire kit. Color matching his orange will probably be tricky as I don't have the widest selection of orange paints on hand and I don't really feel like ordering the paints to match. Other than that, it will be an easy build because everything else is either white or silver.
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"Droid, please!" |
He comes with all of the gadgets you see in the film: the 'disk drive,' the arc welder, and the blowtorch. I have decided if I will use any of these extras, but I'm leaning towards painting the blowtorch just because that scene in the movie is hilarious!
I am so looking forward to seeing you tackle the paint job for BB-8. I understand how you feel. Sometimes we want to just let the model be, especially if you feel you can get away with it as is the case for BB-8. But I agree 100% with your choice as in the end, painting it will take realism to another level. Get started already. :)
ReplyDeleteWith Bandai's Millennium Falcon LED-friendly I was half expecting BB-8 to be lighter-friendly (as in cigarette lighter) ... heh heh. Now wouldn't that be something ... a BB-8 unit that lights up with real fire. ;)
ah MAN! I wish I'd seen this kit the last time I was in tokyo! I bought the R2/R5 kit instead, and have no intention of building R5. :(
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