1:1 Millennium Falcon Cockpit Replica - Group Build

SofaKing01 · Aug 18, 2014

Hi Gang,

More updates! And this time in a positive direction!

Finally finished this panel

All that left is a layer of clear satin before the greeblies and LEDs

And then for fun... imagine these backlit!

More to Follow!

Operascot · Aug 18, 2014

Hey, there,

Had a fun day today, except for having to make multiple trips to hardware stores for, of all things, 10-24 nuts, nylocks and washers.

But it was so worth it.

Started last night by reprinting the muzzle piece

It looks pretty good at the end of the barrel, although the carpet, not so much

After that, I spent the rest of the day working on the forward half of the frame- prepping the three pistons that haven't been in service yet for installation

All 4 pistons in place, for the first time.

After that, I started putting the slides on the front of the frame

All four slides installed, and adding the barrels to the pistons.

All four barrels installed. I had to clamp the frame down to the table at this point. She's a bit nose heavy right now.

I spent a little time working out where the valves will sit. They are going to be hidden inside the side shield plating. You can see the sharpie mark that indicates where the axle for the elevation automation will go through the shield.

Later

Wavey · Aug 19, 2014

Intense updates guys, keep'em coming!

joberg · Aug 19, 2014

Wow, that quad gun will rock soon!:cool

crystaloftruth · Aug 19, 2014

Can't wait to see that thing blow some TIE Fighters out of the sky

Bigdaddy · Aug 20, 2014

The quad is indescribably cool!

thumbsup

SofaKing01 · Aug 21, 2014

Hi Gang,

Early morning update - NEW GREEBLIES!

This is a part of a Reel to Reel player

It's going to be placed here

This greeblie set is now complete

These two rails arrived for another surprise project!

More to Follow!

joberg · Aug 21, 2014

That greeblie is great!

SofaKing01 · Aug 21, 2014

joberg said:
That greeblie is great!

Hey J,

It was a total luck find. We're still not sure what the original piece was/is but the similarities between the original and the EBay find are uncanny. It would have been foolish not to pick it up!

Operascot · Aug 21, 2014

joberg said:
That greeblie is great!

Have to agree there- Man that thing is cool looking

SofaKing01 · Aug 22, 2014

Hi Gang,

Not much of an update and certainly not photo worthy... I sprayed 5 panels with the clear satin last night - they now look totally awesome - anything beyond any photograph could ever show!

Only a few more panels to pin stripe and then I hand the panels off the sound and lighting guys!

mattkelly · Aug 22, 2014

SofaKing01 said:
Hi Gang,

Not much of an update and certainly not photo worthy... I sprayed 5 panels with the clear satin last night - they now look totally awesome - anything beyond any photograph could ever show! Only a few more panels to pin stripe and then I hand the panels off the sound and lighting guys!

Excellent! And then I guess it is your time to go back to nav chair hell?

SofaKing01 · Aug 25, 2014

Hi Gang,

A few early morning updates!

Bought a few of these latches - I need to create a base before mounting

Trying to figure what mostly resembles the original greeblie configuration

Nah...

When the designers changed this panel for ESB they simply covered up all the holes or created a new panel. From what I can tell, there are no LEDs in the panel. So... I have to reposition the greeblies very carefully to hide most of the LED holes from the ANH version

Still not sure what to do with all of these... the larger holes are for the toggle switches - which I will keep

I then headed to the lab and got some work done on the rockers along with some laser cutting - removing the MDF glued to the back of the rocker

I then laser cut more spacers. I used a scrap piece of clear acrylic - I was going to paint white but I actually like the look of the clear

All done

I then laser cut the final button panel

Back to this panel... the pin striping is finished - so far... now it's time to get serious!

I like it!

I like it even more

Rockers in place

There is only ONE good photo of this panel and it is sketchy at best so I'm trying to figure out the best greeblie configuration

I think we're close - still need to either cover or light the remaining exposed LEDs - What do you guys think?

More to Follow!

micheal1191 · Aug 25, 2014

Dude everything is looking awesome.

SofaKing01 · Aug 25, 2014

mattkelly said:
Excellent! And then I guess it is your time to go back to nav chair hell?

Hey M,

Eventually I will have to change focus to the chairs. I've been in contact with a fellow RPFer and we're discussing some options... I really missed the mark on this one - I thought I would have breezed through these no problem - HA!

- - - Updated - - -

micheal1191 said:
Dude everything is looking awesome.

Thnk you, my friend!

joberg · Aug 25, 2014

Yep, greeblies overdose for me!! That panel is looking mighty fine by me:cool

Wavey · Aug 25, 2014

Looks like two new boards placed over what was there before. In the 'black and white' photo you can see the edges of the boards on the nearest side, the boards separated where the three small white stripes are. I guess this is due to the weight of the greeblies.

In photobucket do a 'right click - view image' for the bigger pic.

edit: Maybe even three boards, with the rockers being on their own strip.

SofaKing01 · Aug 26, 2014

Hi Gang,

More updates!
I think I have everything where it needs to be for this panel

Starting to mount all the greeblies

This is one panel I've been dreading... but I finally hopped to it!

Over time the pin stripes have begun to separate - I've decided to overlap them to see how it looks - so far so good!

The new greeblied panel getting a few layers of satin clear

More satin clear

Awaiting greeblies - terrible picture (sorry)

I like it!

Then got to work on the nose side panels (still have 3 to go)

These pin stripes were easy!

More to Come!

Mike J. · Aug 26, 2014

How are you doing the small semicircular pinstripes?

SteveStarkiller · Aug 26, 2014

Beau-ti-ful

man... this is still the best thing since bread

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