Part 5 - Pack 1 to 4

Today was the day, where the first packs of the original DeAgostini model were opened and examined.

Pack 1 contains the cockpit back wall, cockpit floor and front console, hull parts and the upper turret cannon.

Pack 2 includes a screwdriver tool, the upper turret cannon window, the dejarik table and cockpit and hull parts.

Pack 3 contains the pilot and co-pilot seats, cockpit door and hull parts.

Pack 4 has hull parts and the front plate for the cockpit console.

Already upon examination of these packs I decided that some modifications will be necessary:

• The whole cockpit will probably be replaced by the cockpit replacement kit from Falcon 3D Parts.
• The decal of the Dejarik table (hologame chess table) has the wrong coloring.
• The upper turret cannon window frames have the wrong orientation.

Assembling the Cockpit

Nevertheless I assembled the cockpit to get a reference.

Cockpit back wall and floor part with console.

When applying the decal to the cockpit door, I inserted the decal first and then used a brush to press it down carefully. There is only one chance to do this correctly.

Decal applied to the cockpit back wall, Door inserted and floor piece applied.

The pilot seats have the wrong coloring and size.

The cockpit back wall console looks quite good, when backlight is applied.

The front panel of the cockpit console is attached.

First Hull Parts Assembling

The provided screwdriver is actually quite good, when applying tiny screws to the hull skeleton.

This will be the beginning of a long process of attaching hull skeleton parts to each other.

The hull parts are mounted onto the hull skeleton.

This hull part gives a hint of the actual size of the whole model.

In part 6 I will start to do modifications to standard parts delivered as they do not meet my expections.