Build The Millennium Falcon

Unfortunately not, its been a while since i had a chance to do anything with it. I dont want to force myself to do it either because i wont do it right that way, so havent really pushed myself at it, ill only end up doing it quickly and not correctly and wont be happy with it when its finished. I will get back to it though and will update when i do!

I should actually get back into this. Most of it is still boxed away. Now is the perfect time to get some done.

Got a bit more done, its a slow process waiting for stuff to dry.

First up i added some fibres to the hold bench. pain in the *$&£*

I got them in anyways, waiting for glue to dry, I used a soldering iron to bend the fibres to a 90 degree angle, had to use a blade to shave off plastic so i could get them to fit in the groove in the bottom of the bench. fingers crossed it works out. we will see.




Next up , i wasnt happy with the extra hold piece i built previously to go above the pipes so I made a new piece from styrene and am waiting for it dry after spraying it.



There is a light in the falcon beside this door, the kit provides a piece of plastic crap to go there but i wanted it to light up. I previously had made this light from some spare white spru and copper wire i had. I drilled a bigger hole in the wall and glued the light i made over it. then i put a light in the back and glued it place. images below.



Finally for today The Nav computer. I was dreading this because before i packed it up last year i drilled it for loads of fibres, i found them very hard to work with in the small size required here, so i kinda got lazy and cheated a bit. First i just used some dry brushing to add dept t the console itself.

I had "glass paint" that is basically transparent when dried. So i painted some red blue and yellow colours on the back of the nav console and im just using led strips im making at the minute to illuminate them from behind. you can see the effect below, using a torch here. Good enough! To put it in scale this isnt much bigger than a 50 cent piece,theres actually a decal for the bottom left panel in the image there im debating about putting on or not.




Thats it for now!!

Thanks a lot appreciate the comments. With regards the insides, when the model is completed you can take the top off in 2 places, the main hold and one of the corridors, the hull pieces are held in place with magnets. you can see them off in the image below.

GinSoaked wrote: »

I wonder if there is anyway you could film a walk through with some sort of mini camera?

I’m sure there is something that could do it.

Last update for this week.

First up I put the piece i sprayed in the last update in place over the pipes in the hold. Looks ok there i think, i also put a black wash over the white light beside the door as it was a bit too clean i think and i did a but of dry brushing in the pit, the doorway and some other small places just to add some debt. ill do more later.

I also soldered two led strips together to go behind the nav console eventually to light the buttons.



Then my least favorite thing to do , applied some decals to the bench\bunk area and the Dejarik table top. it worked out ok for the most part! was worried id mess that up.




While doing the decals i noticed that the side of the bunk wall is a bit blank looking, so i decided i would add some spare parts to it to make it look interesting, ill add some wires etc too later as there is a few wires coming out of it in the actual films. In the final image below you can see them added, these are the pieces i chose to cut up and add, i sprayed them german grey too.



The bunk behind the bench needs a light on it so looking at the one from the films, i had previously half made it by joining two lights together and filling down the top of each bulb flat as its like that in the film. So now i sprayed them white, masked them off and sprayed the two flat ends black. i also cut up a straw and sprayed that black, this will go over the middle part of it, where the wires are joined. so it should look like the one from the films. You can see what im mean below before i sprayed it.



and finally, the Nav computer in the kit doesnt come with the Nav chair for some strange reason, Han sits in this while talking to Ben and Luke in a new hope about how he doesnt believe in the force.. anyways! Lucky for me, when i first signed up to this , so did my brother, but he only lasted about 15 issues and gave up!

I got all his spare parts though! which includes two Chairs from the cockpit which are almost the same as the nav chair from the hold. the difference is the ones from the cockpit are hollow at the back, and dont have the same kind of stand as the Nav one, also they have some greeblies on the back ill have to add.

First thing i did was cut the bottom off it and then fill the back. when that dried i sanded it down flat. I then create the film style stand for the chair from some spru and styrene pipe. Then i sprayed it silver. because when i spray it grey, im going to use a sharp blade to chip some of that grey off to reveal the silver underneath to make it look like metal with the paint worn off. here is some photos.



Finally as a test i just put the bunk, bench and table in place beside the back wall and tested the fibres with the decals on, you can see the bits i added to the side\end of the bench here too. more to add, wires etc. ill probably use a couple of flashing colour bulbs in the final build so those fibres flash on and off different colours.

thats all for now!

This one is mostly Barrels and the Nav Chair. I found these spare barrels i had so decided to spray them to see if they go in the hold to add something to it, i seen a few images of barrels in the film reference photos.

I sprayed them first with silver, then varnish, so i could try the scraping off thing again with them. Then i painted 2 white and 2 black. I probably wont use them all but just did them anyways.



Next up the Nav chair. I sprayed it black, then scraped off some of that to reveal the silver underneath. I then masked it up and sprayed the cushion parts a tan colour then dry brushed the edges and where you would sit\have your back with a flesh colour to give it a bit of a worn look. Finally i used a black wash just around the edges of the cushions to make them blend a bit better with the chair. (aka hide my sloppy painting) i still have a few bits of greeblies to add to the back of the chair, im waiting for their paint to dry.



and 1 more thing, i finished the bunk light i made, painted each end of it black, put the piece of straw in the middle i sprayed black. and here is it is lit up.

I took the tape off the bunk too from when i sprayed it finally, and you can also see in this image the wires and spare bits i added to the end of the bunk section to make it look better, i dry brushed these silver after painting grey and gave the wires a black wash.



Thats all for now!