SW – ANH (5 Foot) - Studio Scale Millennium Falcon Build

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Onto the build it is in earnest!. Andre, Joshua, been a wonderful ride & collaboration chaps & thank you so much for everything.

Stu
 

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Guys,
This is sheer brilliance and a dream come true. I'll be retiring in a few years so I'm going to make this my retirement project.

Andre, have you given any thought to adding the dimensions of the forward landing gear boxes from the TESB into one half of the image below so anyone who wishes to build it the way it looks after Star Wars can use the plans as well as those who don't want to?

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Junk Pilot said:
It wasn't ILM who blew the dome. Lorne Peterson said it was blown by a company in the San Gabriel valley who did the dome then routed it for a sharp edge.
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Interesting -- but what I'm after is whether it was blown to save time on the build, or for other reasons? Shop time is expensive, not to mention scheduling issues, plus the amount of time required to detail it (which must have been hundreds of man-hours), so was this method picked because it was faster than creating the domes another way?

And I wonder if that San Gabriel company also blew the CE3K Mothership dome?
 
I really have to thank you folks for these great blueprints. I am building a CG ANH Millennium Falcon and they are invaluable in helping me keep things accurate as I can. If possible, could you please post a starboard side view with the cockpit showing?

Thank you once again...
Al
 
I'm sure it was done to save time above all else.

I don't think ILM had the capacity to blow it themselves and outsourcing it would have saved considerable time by telling them they want 2 x 4 foot domes to a certain height which they would of received within a couple of days. But don't forget ILM also needed 2 domes for the Death Star as well so it would have been far more practical for a specialised company to make them freeing up ILM staff to concentrate on other things.

asalaw said:
Interesting -- but what I'm after is whether it was blown to save time on the build, or for other reasons? Shop time is expensive, not to mention scheduling issues, plus the amount of time required to detail it (which must have been hundreds of man-hours), so was this method picked because it was faster than creating the domes another way?

And I wonder if that San Gabriel company also blew the CE3K Mothership dome?
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Junk Pilot said:
I'm sure it was done to save time above all else.

I don't think ILM had the capacity to blow it themselves and outsourcing it would have saved considerable time by telling them they want 2 x 4 foot domes to a certain height which they would of received within a couple of days. But don't forget ILM also needed 2 domes for the Death Star as well so it would have been far more practical for a specialised company to make them freeing up ILM staff to concentrate on other things.
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That makes a lot of sense. The VFX department was already designing and building all their new tech, so I'm sure having the model shop constructing equipment for something that could be outsourced just wouldn't fly. The studio suits at the time were very concerned about the whole optical FX process -- I wonder if some of that pressure blew sideways onto the model shop?
 
Without a doubt I'm sure it did but a little later maybe as I recall ILM was working 24/7 to complete the VFX needed to complete the film. I don't know if they worked those hours in pre-production though. However, there would have been some pressure to build the Dykstraflex motion control set up because without it they couldn't start shooting.

Just my uninformed opinion though.

asalaw said:
That makes a lot of sense. The VFX department was already designing and building all their new tech, so I'm sure having the model shop constructing equipment for something that could be outsourced just wouldn't fly. The studio suits at the time were very concerned about the whole optical FX process -- I wonder if some of that pressure blew sideways onto the model shop?
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For those that want to play with the master model in 3D here it is!

https://grabcad.com/library/millennium-falcon-master-model-anh-version-1

If you don't have access to any CAD tools, I recommend AutoDesk's Fusion 360. It's a great, free, solids/surface modeler with a good set of inspection tools if you want to take measurements directly from the CAD file.

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For those interested, I'll be making my CAD file of the ESB Falcon available - it's quite different than the ANH version and not really a straight half scale conversion.

Enjoy. And happy building.

Cheers,
J.
 
WOOHOO!! Techshop has AutoCAD everything, but I'm gonna download Fusion 360 (assuming there's a Mac version) so I can look at this at home. Congratulations!
 
Wow guys! These are great. Thank you very much for all your hard work! Makes me feel like a 5' Falcon will be a possibility in my future. Now to collect the 100 kits I haven't purchased yet.
 
asalaw said:
WOOHOO!! Techshop has AutoCAD everything, but I'm gonna download Fusion 360 (assuming there's a Mac version) so I can look at this at home. Congratulations!
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Yeah. There is a Mac version.

They rev it fairly often and add new features all the time. I'm just about to the point where I might ditch SolidWorks and just go Fusion for all my parametric needs. It's come a long way since its original release a few years ago...

Give it a try.
 
maruska said:
Yeah. There is a Mac version.

They rev it fairly often and add new features all the time. I'm just about to the point where I might ditch SolidWorks and just go Fusion for all my parametric needs. It's come a long way since its original release a few years ago...

Give it a try.
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Weird -- Fusion 360 says it doesn't support opening local models. No biggie, Inventor Fusion opened it just fine. So now that I've given it a quick orbit view in Inventor, on to the pertinent question: Is there any angle at all from which this model doesn't look dead sexy? :)

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Well, besides this one obviously.
 
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