Star Wars:ANH – 1/48 (~28″) Millennium Falcon – Hasbro/Randy Cooper/308 Bits

Museum Quality Conversion by Marc Elkins

Here is my latest commission work that I did the conversion for a client… a Hasbro Snowspeeder. It is a nice size (almost a studio scale) and I painted it with Archive-X paints.
Nicolas Huguet
NH Design

Artist Pascal Van Der Sande made this fantastic Hasbro toy stand out with a new paint job! Beautifully done!

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When 1980 came around, and The Empire Strikes Back was released, I came out of the theater pumped up and excited about the new ship designs that had been used in the film! The Rebel Base attack scene on Hoth really stuck in my mind! After purchasing the ESB Sketchbook, I actually made my own Snowspeeder to fit my 1/18 Star Wars figures out of card stock. I used only the front and rear drawings from that Sketchbook as examples to make my Speeder… and it turned out really good! All of those intricate angles I achieved without seeing a side view…. and I was amazed! LOL...

I worked on this off and on for about four months. The Nostromo tug is a Micromachine, but the platform and towers were constructed from scratch and detailed with boxes of model kit parts, sheet plastic, Plastruct I-beams etc. I added around 17 nano-sized LEDs–the whole thing is 21″ long by 16″ wide.

Jeff Bond
Winnetka, CA

Jeff Bond

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While this piece was converted from the Hasbro toy by MTM Studio back in 2007, I managed to photograph it back in 2008, and then show it here on Modeler Magic January 14, 2009. The design was originally done for the Star Wars Prequels by ILM artist, and now Director, Warren Fu. I loved this design so much that I had to have one in the collection to show. You can even see General Grievous inside the fighter. The design is striking, and it’s lines very reminiscent of very early Art-Deco styling from the Machine Age (the 1920’s) of the United States. The gold used on this piece really brought it to life along with the metallic weathering and real metal guns...

Artist Steve Carricato recently completed this find model, which he converted from the Hasbro toy!

Final Model

Weathering

Artist Steve Carricato is once again doing one of these wonderful model conversions from the Hasbro toy! As a work in in progress, this Hasbro is Steve’s second commission to convert Rey’s Speeder from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Steve Carricato

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I have been a long time viewer of Modeler Magic and thought I would submit some of the things that I have created over my modeling career. Here is a general look at my current collection. Most of the larger ships are all built from scratch. The lit builds are from kits, and I have a lot of Hasbro toy mods in there as well. Also, I have a few Randy Cooper models and other garage kits. I wanted to scratch build pieces that are unique and not found in many other collections.
Thank you,
Jon Schumann

I love to see toy conversions into fantastic model displays. Such is this one by Fabrice Maggio. He took the latest X-Wing toy that was released by Hasbro as a closed wing version that is to scale with their smaller figure line, and he turned it into a fantastic model that should be proudly displayed. He states it is not entirely accurate, but well enough for him… and I agree! This is great work by Fabrice!