Screen Accurate Millennium Falcon Cockpit (CG Model)

[SteveStarkiller]

next person who sees this post: please let me know if you saw this because you visited the thread directly, or if you received an email notification that there was an update. I ask because I haven't been getting any notifications for this thread when there are updates.

and, cause, you know, this is great stuff here folks!

tons of new cockpit renders up next.

 

[Bootlegger137]

next person who sees this post: please let me know if you saw this because you visited the thread directly, or if you received an email notification that there was an update. I ask because I haven't been getting any notifications for this thread when there are updates.

and, cause, you know, this is great stuff here folks!

tons of new cockpit renders up next.

Steve, apparently there's a bit of a glitch with the email notifications on subscribed threads:

http://www.therpf.com/f16/pm-via-email-notification-not-getting-emails-187791/

And FWIW, I saw this in the "New Posts" listing.

 

[SteveStarkiller]

ah, thanks!

weird though, I get notifications for a some threads, but not others. Glad to know it's not just me.

 

[Bootlegger137]

ah, thanks!

weird though, I get notifications for a some threads, but not others. Glad to know it's not just me.

Might it have to do with when you subscribed to a particular thread? Also, I assume you're checking your spam/junk folder? I've found some in mine for more recently subscribed threads (since the upgrade/format change)...but threads I subscribed to under the old format I'm not getting emails for.

Oh...and loving the work on the cockpit! :thumbsup

 

[valdi]

I got an email notification...

 

[SofaKing01]

...please let me know if you saw this because you visited the thread directly...

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[SteveStarkiller]

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Take a look a page before this, I posted a bunch of stuff about the greeble boxes we were talking about, which are all new (I'll be posting some new renders in the near future.

I got an email notification...

thanks!

Might it have to do with when you subscribed to a particular thread? Also, I assume you're checking your spam/junk folder? I've found some in mine for more recently subscribed threads (since the upgrade/format change)...but threads I subscribed to under the old format I'm not getting emails for.

Oh...and loving the work on the cockpit! :thumbsup

Bootlegger, thanks! I did check my junk mail, but it looks like it didn't trash anything it wasn't supposed to. Glad you like the work.

 

[Wavey]

Very nice work on the lever greebs, again I had to do a 'double-take' to see if the pic was a render or a real object lol. Spot on!

 

[SofaKing01]

Love the new part! You know what I'm thinking?

 

[SteveStarkiller]

You know it. Can you make extra casts of the throttle lever you have? you'll need six of them.

 

[SteveStarkiller]

Very nice work on the lever greebs, again I had to do a 'double-take' to see if the pic was a render or a real object lol. Spot on!

Thanks! Wish any of those had survived, I'm a little uncertain how everything is fastened together.

how do the silhouette comparisons look to you? think we can put this one to rest?

 

[SteveStarkiller]

 

[SofaKing01]

WHOA!!!!!!! Hot Diggity!

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You know it. Can you make extra casts of the throttle lever you have? you'll need six of them.

A fellow RPFer offered to lathe 8 of them from aluminum! But they are to be used for the throttles. HMMMM... What do you think the price would be?

 

[valdi]

Nice! This is really looking tangible.. If only I had the money to build one...
Until that happens I will continue to enjoy your renders immensely!

 

[SteveStarkiller]

Nice! This is really looking tangible.. If only I had the money to build one...
Until that happens I will continue to enjoy your renders immensely!

Thanks! We'll always have Sofaking's awesome build, too, don't forget.

WHOA!!!!!!! Hot Diggity!

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A fellow RPFer offered to lathe 8 of them from aluminum! But they are to be used for the throttles. HMMMM... What do you think the price would be?

Hmmm... they're about 7" long, and hollowed out, they could be comparable to the sliders we just printed (or perhaps we could print half of one, you know, just to add the number of things you need to cast in the near future)

For the ones you're getting lathed, what are using as a template? The model I have was based on a photo of a 3po piston, but it hardly feels definitive, and I had to make a lot of guesses. Would love to sure those up, if your lathe copies are closer to the real part.

 

[valdi]

Yes! Lets not forget Sofakings efforts. The cockpit is looking sweet Sofaking! (maybe I should head over to his build thread and tell him there )

 

[SofaKing01]

Thanks! We'll always have Sofaking's awesome build, too, don't forget.

Hmmm... they're about 7" long, and hollowed out, they could be comparable to the sliders we just printed (or perhaps we could print half of one, you know, just to add the number of things you need to cast in the near future)

For the ones you're getting lathed, what are using as a template? The model I have was based on a photo of a 3po piston, but it hardly feels definitive, and I had to make a lot of guesses. Would love to sure those up, if your lathe copies are closer to the real part.

The design I used for the piston was based on the SketchUp model you sent. W/O an actual part - nobody knows for sure... I think we would only need the other part printed in order to make molds. It just makes sense to have all pistons lathed... We need to be as consistent. Make sense?

 

[SteveStarkiller]

The design I used for the piston was based on the SketchUp model you sent. W/O an actual part - nobody knows for sure... I think we would only need the other part printed in order to make molds. It just makes sense to have all pistons lathed... We need to be as consistent. Make sense?

Hah! I take it back, my throttle levers are very accurate, I assure you. Hehheh.

anyway, yes we can print the round handle part, and some other things, but we'll have to work out how it all connects together. I cheated a little bit with my model of the ceiling lever, letting some geometry intersect things in a non-practical way, just because I couldn't really figure out how it's all connected together.

So the big cyclindrical knob, perpendicular to the piston, is the axis of rotation. It's center line goes under the piston, and it has a small rod that the piston rests on. The rod is held up by the brackets underneath. But I have no idea how the piston would connect to the rod. Welded? Then the real mysteris is how the round handle is actually attached. From the close-up of ben turning the leverl, you can see it touching the piston, but now how it's connected. Wavey sent me an image of the part he thinks the round handle may be, and it has some metal tabs sticking out and either end, but these aren't visible in the image with ben's hand on the lever.

well...that all might make no sense, I'm feeling a little out of sorts this morning, but we'll figure it out.

 

[SofaKing01]

LOL! Well naturally...

The way the designers scratched and bashed and reused parts thoughout each set... who knows how they actually attached and mounted the greeblies together - could have been something as simple as glue. There is a screen shot from ESB or RotJ showing the throttle greeblie moved as if it had come apart so... As far as the actual "lever" itself being attached, that can be done with a simple bolt attached to the lever bottom (what is resting on the green "cut mat") that feeds through the panel attached by a lock nut under the panel - they don't have to turn...

 

[SteveStarkiller]

they don't have to turn...

c'mon now, where's the fun in that?

well, at any rate, you will need them to turn, because the levers are all at different angles. Also, what will you do if some small short range fighters come out of no where? You're definitely going to need to engage whatever it is those levers engage.

(just to be clear, the ones in the cockpit don't turn side to side the way Ben turns them to deactivate the tractorbeam, but instead they rotate on the axis of the cylinder knob.)