Hi all, and Hi to DLT9. Glad you started this thread and hope that you will build your own falcon. it's very challenging, but rewarding too.
All Frank said is true, and as his quote added to my build thread reads..."welcome to the what the F*%$ was I thinking club"...very true.:lol
I'm looking at mine now and thinking how the hell will I ever get this finished.?:wacko
I had the artwork in the fine moulds kit enlarged up to the SS length. I found that it won't work out exactly to give you the diameter of the dish though. This needs more calculations.
The enlargement's not 100% accurate but I found it useful to see it at fullsize.
I cut the mandibles off the enlargement and using some measurements a kind member here had supplied to me, taped them back on with the toe-in, to see what it looked like.:love This was before Helder had posted his dims up.
I'm also hoping that this enlargement will help in working out the radiuses of the armour plates when...or if, I ever get to that, it's a loooooong way off that part tho..
I used the measurements I had, and the Fine moulds enlargement to draw up a plan for cutting out the main shape from styene. You need to take into account that the circular part of this shape is a smaller diameter than the finished size. This is because there is the dish skin overhang, and the armour plating overhang to add afterwards to make up the full finished diameter.(1/35th matilda needed to work out dish skin overhang)
All this is only a small part of whole thing....
Then there's the ribs..and more ribs..
Micromark do some very useful tools for this build, a large compass, and some attachments for a yard stick to draw and cut out even bigger circles.
But Don't let all this put you off !
Cheers
Phil