Working on lower docking arms...
Man, that's some tricky geometry!
Man, that's some tricky geometry!
Our Collective 5-Foot Millennium Falcon Build
- Thread starter Studio Kitbash
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Found one of these after eight years of searching...
Only six more to go!
Only six more to go!
JCoffman,
Can you "zoom out" on this picture by 20% - it's very helpful, but I want to see a bit more of it. And I haven't given up searching, even if I end up scratch-building this piece just to move on.
Thanks!
These are the best I have of that area.
agreed
TS,
Great job on docking ring tubes.
Elevation of your beautiful bottom, main landing gear, platform is critical. The top blends in with the base of the turret at the disc top. Also, the placement of the rear Centurion structure & its “wings” are determined by the slope of the disc edge and location of the leading flap edge curve space behind it and the sloped sides of the platform deck.
This may sound confusing. Bottom line: Lay out all these large greeblies and flap ring temporarily. For me this was an important step as you adjust the plane of your platform. I actually had machined bolts & nuts at all four corners to adjust elevation properly.
Great job on docking ring tubes.
Elevation of your beautiful bottom, main landing gear, platform is critical. The top blends in with the base of the turret at the disc top. Also, the placement of the rear Centurion structure & its “wings” are determined by the slope of the disc edge and location of the leading flap edge curve space behind it and the sloped sides of the platform deck.
This may sound confusing. Bottom line: Lay out all these large greeblies and flap ring temporarily. For me this was an important step as you adjust the plane of your platform. I actually had machined bolts & nuts at all four corners to adjust elevation properly.
It's so interesting that the original builders put together the main falcon "form" then just tested greeblies and either cut to fit, or said "too big, nope, dang this one is too small, aaah!! This fits just right - where's that little bottle of Eastman glue??" And everyone else is slaving and fretting over sub-millimeter dimensions trying to recreate what was just literally bashed together- so brilliant!!!
I think so. It looks like they needed something just to fill the gap. Probably pieces of styrene.
joberg
Legendary Member
All of the above; after the main design was done, then it's "simply" a game of finding the "right" greeblies to put on that form and using a sense of "real world look" as to which part fits in with other parts (creating a story). Sure, lots of cutting, fitting, etc...to achieve that look, but that's the fun of building Sci-Fi models from scratch
