Scale: 1/72
"Oh, boy! There's a piece of instrumentation from almost any world of this galaxy on this spacecraft..."
"I know, I never will be as famous as that famous smuggler, later rebel, later General of the Republic, later trader, and eventually martyr of the Rebellion called Han Solo that made the Kessel Route in less than 12 parsec, but I muddle through and do all I can to start carving out a space for myself out there in cold space. I don't know if I should consider Solo just a rival, or a sort of distant friend, or somebody that works in the same field as I do, that is Smugglers' trade, but for certain my ship will deliver its load, and this also if I have to escape the fast Stardestroyers of the Empire, the starships of the First Order or whoever, or whatever, comes after them one day, of course."
The main feature of the diorama is the Wavecrest, a fictitious Corellian Light Freighter scratchbuilt in 1/72 scale, much smaller than the famous Millennium Falcon. I used plasticard, parts of an old Millennium Falcon kit and various boxed-kits or remaining parts of other models, metal included. The spacecraft has also been customized adding some parts from old Epic kits, so as from small scale models from Tamiya, ERTL, wood, plastic and many other materials. Some little weathering was necessary on the craft to show off a certain use of the ship before in atmospheric conditions because of the sand of the planet where it is used to be back after the end of a Smuggler's task. Inside the cokpit there is a small figure with the head painted in gold color as it is the droid that helps the pilot in making this spacecraft fly to space and, hopefully, to land somewhere later.
The base is from wargames accessories modified with drybrush on it. All is painted mainly with acrylics, leaving oils only for the weathering and several ink washings.
