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Published: 2015-07-28 00:10:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 8130; Favourites: 222; Downloads: 93
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The Type-99 Space Fighter Attack Craft “Cosmo Falcon” is the backbone of the Uncf. These versatile fighters were built to replace the aging Cosmo Zero. The fighter's agility is attributed to its sleek design and twin engine system. Featuring dual nose mounted vulcan cannons and mounts for various missile weapon systems. The falcon also features additional bays for more ordnance. A Feet of falcons were stationed on board the space battleship Yamato and aided greatly in her mission.
Here is my finished Bandai 1/72 Cosmo Falcon. Built mostly outta the box (with decals fished from the hoard) using Japanese’s zeros as a loose inspiration I painted this model up in some IJN colors I had left over from my Yamato build. Overall I was pretty dang impressed with the model kit (I might even have to buy one more) as I really just love the look of this fighter. The kit has some great detail, gimmicks and built up like a dream. The included stand is really nice and really lets you pull off some crazy poses. The biggest gripes with the kit are the crazy over engineered (and frustrating) engine sections and lack of cockpit detail.
I did practice a bit of photo editing and digitally removed the stand from some shots.
As always questions, comments and suggestions welcome.
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Comments: 104
Always appreciate the writeup and collage, what a beautiful ship.
Do you have any tips for finding models like this for cheap? Id love to give a kit like this a shot, but cant afford those crazy prices. Any time something looks cool sellers jack up the price
About how big are 1/72 ships like this?
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Very talented as a modeler. Incredible work on the paint, effects, and overall appearence. I really like your work. A lot! And I've been modeling for 40 years...
Tim
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Awesome work sir! I especially like the way you handled all the detailing on the underside, really impressive, clean build
Just out of curiosity , what did you use to glue the canopy on with? I see so many canopies frosted up from super glue residue, but not yours ( it's perfect!) its tricky to find a glue that will stick vac formed plastic to resin
I know what you mean about cockpit detail etc, Quite a common problem with resin aircraft kits...
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thank you dude, means alot coming from you. i think the underside is my favorite on this build as well.
for clear parts i just use a bit of white glue(elmer's) mixed with a small amount of water(just to have to glue smooth) then apply with a brush. it really does not have a great bond but it has no fumes and is water based so there is little risk of hurting the fragile clear plastic.
yea its just a small gripe and i am sure i could of added more detail but was a bit lazy and really did not want to spend time scratch building tiny stuff XD
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Thanks for the info 
I know what you mean about wanting to add detail to a kit. As it is it looks great, so mission accomplished!
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Love what you did to the model, Shawn! Amazing work!
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thanks a tonnage my friend, i really loved working on this thing.
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Impressive! How on Earth do you do chips & marks so well? It adds so much to the feel of it...again, fantastic work!
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Thanks buddy!
the chips and marks are pretty easy to lean how to do just harder to get an eye for where they should go(and how much) anyways i get a scratchy sponge, something like this is what i use www.amazon.co.uk/Scotch-Brite-… (the green side) i cut up the sponge in smallest bits. i then dip the bit into some paint, dab on a paper towel blotter, then dab onto the model. every few marks ill mash the sponge on the blotter to change its pattern. for this model(and loads of others) i used a dark panzer and jet exhaust for the marks.
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Wow, thanks for the advice! I'll note that down for later...
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Loving the colors! Awesome contrast between the red and the green. Again, amazing details and the stickers make it look so real
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Thanks man, for left over colors they all seemed to work out good. love decals and this one seem to lend itself to go hog wild on.
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And as predicted, you still manage to bang out a great build even with a new daughter arriving.
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hahah thanks my friend. while i am not working as fast as i once did, i am still trying to be creative.
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this green look very good, i love the base stand looking good for a robot legs : )
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yea i had that green just sitting around, i really liked it color but didn't really have anything i thought would fit it till this one.
i LOVE the stand, might have to buy anther kit just for the stand, as it could easily be converted for other projects.
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Nice figurines come with this. And an interesting stand. Btw, it's cool how clear the cockpit windows are. I remember when I built planes, I always (!) got glue on the windows.
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thanks! the figure was pretty neat and i love the stand. it really lets you put this thing in some really wild positions.
with clear parts i use "white glue"(elmer's glue) with a tiny bit of water. it will dry clear and not do damage to the plastic.
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Interesting engines. They sort of look like they are air breathing (ie, for in-atmo flight), but then maybe not. 
Would be interesting to see this put up along side an X-wing or TIE fighter...
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yea they do look like they were designed for that in mind, but it really just a throwback to traditional design. i really don't know the specifics of how it runs, but they are designed for anti-gravity and space flight.
hahah that's what i was thinking and i do in fact have a tie/xwing in the same scale. its just finding the time/ambition to do photos for it. at some point i really want to learn how to do composite shots.
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Looking forward to seeing this....
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thats a badass ship! i want a fleet of them at my disposal
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that man, well you know you can indeed get a fleet of them!all the light gray ones are this fighter, Micro Fleet
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thanks! really was a great kit, did not take much work to get it to look this good.
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I am loving that green!
Is that the Stryker's green?
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thanks buddy!
no but its pretty close. the green is actually tamiya "racing green" XD
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Racing Green? well it fooled me XD
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hahah yea i almost didn't give up the name, as i had said i used IJN colors(all but the green lol) but i think most would just assume its some proper military color.
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I enjoy bright colours like these, I always make sure I have a humbrol Dark Matt Green with me with every model incase I use it, it gives a nice finish and is a nice colour for base or detail should the model need any green
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great minds i tell ya!
i have a pot of MM dark green on hand for the same reasons XD
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Haha always that one colour that gets more attention than the rest :'D
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hahah for sure! for me "euro gray" and "jet exhaust" is use on every single project on my somewhere.
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I'm using dark yellow and matt black more often too
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Dude!! That's an awesome jet!!
How big is it? It looks a little bigger than those penny ships you building before,
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Thanks my friend, this thing does look pretty cool and deadly!
well at 1/72 its a little bigger than the tiny craft i had been building. its about 20cm long and 9cm wide. just a tad smaller than my x-wing in the same scale.
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Ah cool!!
The pilot looked pretty dang small so I was wondering!
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well its still on the smaller side, as i am not totally use to this scale yet. but still loads bigger than the tiny ships. this is actually a bigger version of one of the tiny tiny ships i had just built (light gray ones) Micro Fleet
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Nice! I didn't realize they where the same!
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yupppers! i have a ton of them in 1/500 as well, which when i get around to it, will paint them like this one.
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That sounds like a ton of fun!
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Oh yes gotta love the style of this thing!
Good paintwork (I always enjoy dark green colour xD) and good 'shopping aswell, can only see it on one image if I look closely, but never would have thought of that if you didn't mention it.
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yea i love the overall design, just looks deadly!
thanks, the colors were all left overs, so i am happy they ended up working so good toghter.
yea i am slowly getting better at shopping out stuff. think i even removed my desk from the first shot. i can notice a few mistakes if i really study the photos but that's all part of the leaning process.
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