In the spirit of Dave Goldberg, who taught many of us most of what we know, in the spirit of teaching, generosity, and sharing, this thread will be a long, slow, collective build of the 5-foot (66 inches) Millennium Falcon.
Inspired by Lee Malone, Sean Sides, and the hard work of parts-mapping, photogrammetry, CAD profiling, and figuring out the dimensions that Faustus100 (RIP), Maruska, Eagle1, Geek1138, and many others have done, this is by no means original or the first. By "OUR" I mean to make this a collective build, in which I share what I have learned, and you share in similar spirit whatever you are willing to share. I suspect this will take me not less than three years, based on how long the Y-Wing took me, my relative newbie status, and my "slow-but-steady" tortoise-not-a-hare approach to building things in which I far prefer to build 3 prototypes in order to get the 4th one right rather than slap something on just because it looks "pretty good."
I have no pretensions to being able to offer you something you can't do better on your own. I'm not a secret gnostic hoarder of the many greeblie secrets that many RPFers like to hold onto, but actually enjoy a richer and more enjoyable life by sharing, and hope you do to. My impression is that this attitude is largely driven by a.) scarcity of original models left on the market combined with b.) a desire to decrease competition when bidding on old plastic kits on Ebay. Happily for this thread, at least, I already have (and so do many of you) the source kits for the Y-Wing, and over 100 of those are the same kits that go into the Millennium Falcon, so where there's a new kit, especially a rare one, you can also happily expect me to share it with you via a one-part or two-part casting of the hard-to-find kit in question.
What I would like, in return for my efforts, is your serious and HARSH critique of what I get wrong, what looks off, and where I'm screwing things up. So if you see a mistake or a flaw, call me on it, and I'll appreciate it -- one thing Marshall McLuhan taught me was that "critics are free editors" and so if I can improve my work by your critiques, I eagerly welcome your critiques.
Here, to start you off, is Prototype 4 of the 6 required engine vent rings, so that we can begin this thread with the proverbial, "Gentleman, start your ENGINES!!!"
Meanwhile, updates on what's on offer for this Five-Footer Falcon can be found on the Project Runs page.
Inspired by Lee Malone, Sean Sides, and the hard work of parts-mapping, photogrammetry, CAD profiling, and figuring out the dimensions that Faustus100 (RIP), Maruska, Eagle1, Geek1138, and many others have done, this is by no means original or the first. By "OUR" I mean to make this a collective build, in which I share what I have learned, and you share in similar spirit whatever you are willing to share. I suspect this will take me not less than three years, based on how long the Y-Wing took me, my relative newbie status, and my "slow-but-steady" tortoise-not-a-hare approach to building things in which I far prefer to build 3 prototypes in order to get the 4th one right rather than slap something on just because it looks "pretty good."
I have no pretensions to being able to offer you something you can't do better on your own. I'm not a secret gnostic hoarder of the many greeblie secrets that many RPFers like to hold onto, but actually enjoy a richer and more enjoyable life by sharing, and hope you do to. My impression is that this attitude is largely driven by a.) scarcity of original models left on the market combined with b.) a desire to decrease competition when bidding on old plastic kits on Ebay. Happily for this thread, at least, I already have (and so do many of you) the source kits for the Y-Wing, and over 100 of those are the same kits that go into the Millennium Falcon, so where there's a new kit, especially a rare one, you can also happily expect me to share it with you via a one-part or two-part casting of the hard-to-find kit in question.
What I would like, in return for my efforts, is your serious and HARSH critique of what I get wrong, what looks off, and where I'm screwing things up. So if you see a mistake or a flaw, call me on it, and I'll appreciate it -- one thing Marshall McLuhan taught me was that "critics are free editors" and so if I can improve my work by your critiques, I eagerly welcome your critiques.
Here, to start you off, is Prototype 4 of the 6 required engine vent rings, so that we can begin this thread with the proverbial, "Gentleman, start your ENGINES!!!"
Meanwhile, updates on what's on offer for this Five-Footer Falcon can be found on the Project Runs page.
