Custom Millenium Falcon stand for my Han

Custom Millenium Falcon stand round 2 on page two.. now with WIP pics!

So I've bought a few extra hatless Indy heads from Toy Anxiety since they first started carrying them. I've since made a Deckard and Han..
Anyway, the guy downstairs was doing some sort of renovation and had leftover wood sitting on the porch so I slapped some sheet styrene and some parts from my collection of crap for greeblies. Cannibalized a sideshow figure stand and after some paint and weathering..






I'm digging this stand

That looks brilliant ! It just shows all you need is a bit of imagination , a few bits and bobs and of course the skills to put it all together to produce a professionally finished piece . Excellent work .

That is an excellent stand, reminds me of what Sideshow did for the Sith Anakin stand.

What a great idea. It really came out nice.

Looks like a Hot Toys stand. Very nice!

Wow great idea and wonderful execution. Perfectly weathered!

excellent work, so many brilliant people on this board.

Great idea and execution! I may have to try that!

That's one sweet stand! Hopefully you got some ideas for other ones.If you could do a carbon freezing chamber room floor tile (with lights) for Bespin Han, that's be awesome.

Good work.

Excellent stand. That looks really nice.

Dorgmal Snow said:

Great work D_J looks really cool. love the detail and weathering, don't supose you want to finish the rest of my falcon cockpit LOL, I just cant seem to find any hours left in the day LOL.

Are you gonna do any other, a Sand one would be cool, or a pilot one.

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Actually, my Indy is on a sand base lol
If I were close enough, I'd LOVE to detail your Falcon. Thats a fine piece of craftsmanship.

Wow that stand looks amazing. Im tempted to have a go at some myself now

Man, every now and then you see something cool and different and this is one of those times. Very creative and very well done!

Very nice.
Great detail & paint apps.

SWEET great idea

Thanks guys.
For the paint-job, I did a base-coat of white and then used three shades of gray to give it the "feel" of the falcon, the last of which was a misting of light aircraft gray.
So on the weathering, obviously, for the oil leaks or whatever, I used thinned down black paint in several layers. I added light gray (slate gray to be precise) streaks in various locations to emulate water stains as if it had sat out too long or something. For the rust spots, I actually use rust I have a small container that I deliberately rusted some steel wool in and ground it down into a fine powder. I dip my fingertip or a q-tip (cotton swab) into the rust and carefully work it into the paint. Doesn't take much effort. In some areas I applied superglue and baking soda (for a crusty look) which I then painted rust brown and surrounded with real rust.. I sealed it with a flat clear cote and called it done.

I made a new (generic) stand.. it can be found here with progress pics showing my process.
https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/group.php?do=discuss&group=&discussionid=344
and the end result

I have recieved PMs concernign the Falcon base.. as to whether or not I'm planning to cast copies and sell them. I wouldn't know how and don't really have the available resources, but if anyone wants to take on the task, I'd be willing to ship it to whomever would be willing.
That said.. there are a couple of bits that might make it difficult. the round vents on the front are from an electric shaver and could make casting difficult (but again, I don't know).
Anyway, I've decided to make a second one because I still had enough stuff to make ONE more... see, I had someone ask about me casting up copies while I don't have the resources/knowhow, I did decide to make him a copy since I had JUST enough to make one more. (I know, sorry guys..) Anyway, I have been documenting this one

I started by cutting my board

Then, I skinnned it with Sheet styrene (that I had pre-scored to simulate hull panels)

added some detail

started adding the base for the stand



added my commtech chips (yes, THOSE commtech chips)

added some pipes (along with other greeblies)


added my shaver foils

and some pieces to raise it up

side-by side, this ones slightly larger