1:1 Millennium Falcon Cockpit Replica - Group Build

SofaKing01 · Jan 26, 2014

Hi Gang,

Sanding is not easy...

Quick layer of flat black. The inside will be sprayed with texture to help hide all the imperfections

Nice and smooth

More to Follow!

Yodamann · Jan 26, 2014

SofaKing01 said:
Hi Gang,

Sanding is not easy...
http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/...Console Build/20140126_143909_zps6d6885fb.jpg

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/...Console Build/20140126_143914_zpsb10a88a3.jpg

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/...Console Build/20140126_143923_zps27c208ac.jpg

Quick layer of flat black. The inside will be sprayed with texture to help hide all the imperfections
http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/...Console Build/20140126_144100_zps19267990.jpg

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/...Console Build/20140126_144106_zps638b98a4.jpg

Nice and smooth
http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/...Console Build/20140126_144114_zpsa3a820c3.jpg

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/...Console Build/20140126_144118_zps2b08445b.jpg

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/...Console Build/20140126_144126_zpsaf0bf533.jpg

More to Follow!

Out of curiosity, why are you redoing the Matte box?

Is this a found part?

joberg · Jan 26, 2014

Wow, I'm absent for a few days and you raided an electronic store

Great hold-up by the way; all those greeblies for a song (well, almost). Liking that new box btw. Keep it up, it's making my day every time!

Fuzzual · Jan 26, 2014

Ahhhhhhhhh so many greeblies!!!!!!!!!!!

SofaKing01 · Jan 27, 2014

Yodamann said:
Out of curiosity, why are you redoing the Matte box?

Is this a found part?

Hey Y,

The matte box I created LONG ago was NOT accurate at all. It was during those first few months when SketchUp was giving horrible measurements. It never looked right. Mike did an amazing job and is much more true to the actual Mitchell Matte Box. He's creating 3 more along with several other cockpit greeblies so his work is definately cut out for him over the next few weeks.

But the good news... I now have 2 extra greeblies I can forward to a few RPFers...

SofaKing01 · Jan 27, 2014

joberg said:
Wow, I'm absent for a few days and you raided an electronic store Great hold-up by the way; all those greeblies for a song (well, almost). Liking that new box btw. Keep it up, it's making my day every time!

Hey J,

OH MAN... the electronics store was a gold mine. I was texting and sending pics to various team members. The biggest surprise was finding those green edge connectors. I saw them hanging from the wall and I actually said out loud "NO WAY!!!". I'm not sure how old those connectors are but they were still in their original package... Think about that... after all these years they have been waiting for me to collect them up and put them to good use! I'm going back Wed to see what else I can scoop up - hoping everything will be 75%+ off...

Mike did a great job on the matte box. I'm stopping by MGL this afternoon to discuss a few more projects with him. We're also creating 3 of the Racal Minilite Headsets (Starkiller is getting 1). I picked up 3 cheapo headsets from the dollar store and we'll be butchering them up to fit into the new fabricated headset. The best part... they will be fully operational.

http://www.yourprops.com/movieprops...pe-Han-Solo-s-Millennium-Falcon-Headset-1.jpg

SofaKing01 · Jan 27, 2014

Fuzzual said:
Ahhhhhhhhh so many greeblies!!!!!!!!!!!

I love greeblies... and I have SO many more coming... As I mentioned above, I'm going back to the electronics store later in the week to scoop up anything else I can find. There will be a few goodies for you as well

In other news, after chatting with Chris, the new center console will be pure ESB (based on Starkiller's Renders - http://www.therpf.com/f11/screen-ac...kpit-cg-model-102451/index68.html#post3180429). I look at those renders and can't stop myself from drooling...

retrogarde · Jan 27, 2014

I have a Racal Minilite headset! It's 80% original pieces and 20% Spatcave resin, but it's an awesome piece with ties to Alien, Star Wars, James Bond etc. Fun stuff! Cool that yours will actually work!

SofaKing01 · Jan 27, 2014

retrogarde said:
I have a Racal Minilite headset! It's 80% original pieces and 20% Spatcave resin, but it's an awesome piece with ties to Alien, Star Wars, James Bond etc. Fun stuff! Cool that yours will actually work!

OH WOW! Hang on to it! They are imposible to find... We're going to make as screen accurate as possible using the cheapo headsets. I'm looking forward to what sounds we'll add that folks will hear.

cymonguk · Jan 27, 2014

Some great greeblies there, love the lamps. A question, the console and back parts of the cockpit have what I can only assume to be keyboard keys (the red, yellow, white, blue ones), are these on the ANH version of the cockpit but not on ESB? Also how are doing such a good job of the lines on the panels, are you masking them in?

joberg · Jan 27, 2014

Love those headsets!:cool Not only difficult to find, but also expensive (my dream, one day).

SofaKing01 · Jan 28, 2014

cymonguk said:
Some great greeblies there, love the lamps. A question, the console and back parts of the cockpit have what I can only assume to be keyboard keys (the red, yellow, white, blue ones), are these on the ANH version of the cockpit but not on ESB? Also how are doing such a good job of the lines on the panels, are you masking them in?

Hey C,

Those square multicolored "buttons" are actually rubber frame bumpers that you adhere to the back of picture frames so they don't scrape / bump the wall. The design was based on the ANH version and there has never been a clear pic of those particular areas so Starkiller did his best - I just copied off of him. Those panel changed significantly for ESB. We'll be doing a sort of hybrid version.

The pinstriping is exactly that. I went to a local autoparts store and would clean them out of their white pinstripes on a regular basis. I followed the template created by Starkiller and marked the lines with a pencil. I very carefully applied in place and then sealed with a satin clear finish to ensure they wouldn't come off. However, I had to lay the pencil template down twice. Once before paint to mark where all the LED holes and swicthes would go then followed the same template after paint. Example:

Before Paint
http://www.therpf.com/f79/1-1-mille...a-group-build-147319/index99.html#post2779373

After Paint
http://www.therpf.com/f79/1-1-mille...-group-build-147319/index102.html#post2791461

Hope all this helps

SofaKing01 · Jan 28, 2014

joberg said:
Love those headsets!:cool Not only difficult to find, but also expensive (my dream, one day).

Hey J,

Very expensive. That's why we're fabricating them.

retrogarde · Jan 28, 2014

If you guys have a plan for making them already that's cool, but both Spat and Nick-a-tron offer resin copies of the Racal. Hands down the best place to get a real one though is the PX section of Aliens Legacy. I've seen a couple pass through there in the last year besides the one I got.

cymonguk · Jan 28, 2014

Ah I never thought about pinstripes for cars, probably because my father did a lot of custom spraying and all by hand and masking!! Started the layout last night for the two beds, thinking I need two double beds though to get everything in!

Thinking my eldest's bed will have a turret over the feet end, with turnable turrets. The underneath will be around 1.3m by 1.6m. Thinking of using some mini photo frames for interactive displays (showing power feeds, problems, battle damage), possibly cheap tablets from china ( get my devs to put a custom app together)

Have you found any good blueprints for the MF?

cymonguk · Jan 28, 2014

Now I came across this tonight, whilst looking for something else entirely:

items in ARCADE WORLD UK store on eBay!

12V SUPER BRIGHT WEDGE BASE CLUSTER LED WHITE - 10MM items in ARCADE WORLD UK store on eBay!

You may get these cheaper elsewhere, but I never thought of arcade buttons, you can also get PCBs that handle the flashing, power, etc. I don't think you could do the whole thing with them, but as an additional they could be nice!

It also started me thinking could one of my drop down panels some how be built to include a tablet with the original star wars game in it (i.e. where you blow the tie fighter up in 3d vector)…...

SofaKing01 · Jan 29, 2014

Hi Gang,

I made another stop by the electronics store and picked up a few more goodies. Unfortunately they weren't willing to negotiate and 50% off was their bottom line... Oh well...

Found these smaller rotary switches for those tight spots on the back of the console

I must have 200+ knobs at this point...

I might use these for the "nose" on the upcoming center console

Sitting atop another greeblie

If anybody is interested in these pilot light covers (1") they have TONS of them. But you have to tell me now!

Sprayed another coat of primer/filler on the new matte box

I figure a few more coats of the primer/filler with some light sanding and she'll be good to go. I kinda like all the imperfections

I'm picking up the console instrument panels and will begin disassembly - removing old wires, buttons, etc... and getting her ready to be transformed.

Stay Tuned!

cymonguk · Jan 29, 2014

Is that matte piece vac formed, I could not see where you said Sofaking? I was considering making a version out of mdf and filler.

SofaKing01 · Jan 29, 2014

retrogarde said:
If you guys have a plan for making them already that's cool, but both Spat and Nick-a-tron offer resin copies of the Racal. Hands down the best place to get a real one though is the PX section of Aliens Legacy. I've seen a couple pass through there in the last year besides the one I got.

Hi R,

Our newest team member, Mike, has already started and he's really excited. He's got the ball and I'm going to let him run with it.

SofaKing01 · Jan 29, 2014

cymonguk said:
Ah I never thought about pinstripes for cars, probably because my father did a lot of custom spraying and all by hand and masking!! Started the layout last night for the two beds, thinking I need two double beds though to get everything in!

Thinking my eldest's bed will have a turret over the feet end, with turnable turrets. The underneath will be around 1.3m by 1.6m. Thinking of using some mini photo frames for interactive displays (showing power feeds, problems, battle damage), possibly cheap tablets from china ( get my devs to put a custom app together)

Have you found any good blueprints for the MF?

Hi C,

The pinstriping has been awesome. Every now and then I'll get a bad roll but I've been very happy with the results.

You really need to take pics of your project - from concept to reality. We would love to see it!

There are a few blueprints of the MF. But our build is based on Starkiller's 3D model. He's our source...

1:1 Millennium Falcon Cockpit Replica - Group Build

Master Member

Well-Known Member

Legendary Member

Sr Member

Master Member

Master Member

Master Member

Well-Known Member

Master Member

Jr Member

Legendary Member

Master Member

Master Member

Well-Known Member

Jr Member

Jr Member

Master Member

Jr Member

Master Member

Master Member

Similar threads