An RPF Open Source 5 ft Millennium Falcon Build/Reference Thread. All Are Welcome
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I’m sure once I print them, they’ll be all wrong…but I’m learning and getting faster. Probably have a whole Panzer iii by the end of the week.
bwayne64
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That's one of the great things about virtual objects, if they aren't right you don't have to break out the knives and saws, lol. I don't know what type of statistics your program has, but I always have to check for stray points and non planer poly's. Usually your slicer will throw out an error message. But you probably know this. As small as most kit parts are, at least we're not losing a lot of filament or resin when we goof up.
Very cool. All the parts have been from the 1/35 Tamiya Panzer iii
Here’s where the mirror function helps. Similar, but slightly different part.
joberg
Legendary Member
I think I'll make a T-shirt out of that one: "In case of emergency, grab a circle"
Nice work. Great computer work which I still find hard to do.
Appreciate your effort as well as that of many of the past Falcon veterans that have produced maps of this great model. Their many years of being a 1977 “cold case” kit parts detective without the the internet and computers.
Thanks. Those guys did the heavy lifting. I just like organizing stuff and figured these updates would help folks.
So what’s your preferred way for cutting large pieces like this? Imma scared.
jcoffnan99,
For what it’s worth, a micrometer carefully used on the 1/72 Bandai Falcon is a good check when dimensions are in doubt or unknown and kit part bench marks do not help. I use the 3.511 multiplier developed by one of the RPF veterans.
I have found that one needs to be constant in rounding off. The nearest 1/32 inch works for me with 1/64 the best my eyes can do for small parts.
Those very small measurements are tricky. Measuring a critical item a few times helps assure accuracy. Be aware of “stack up” when measuring a string of item lengths separately or selecting material thickness.
I measure constantly during my build to check construction as-built, edge distances, those larger armor segment gaps and recently even on surface ”chips” to get proportions reasonably correct.
Best of luck.
So what’s your preferred way for cutting large pieces like this? Imma scared.
My method is a Dremel cut off wheel, making sure I cut the part too big and then slowly sand it to the correct shape & size.
Any ideas on the circled bits?
Not too shabby for a noob.
This was the Elegoo Saturn.
Any idea what part fell off here? This is in the mandible pit. Looks like some type of rectangular grill.
I think this is it...
I think this is it...
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