Build The Millennium Falcon

dudeeile wrote: »

Truly amazing attention to detail, it will be specatacular once complete. What's your percentage complete on the build?

Thanks a lot , I’m not really sure to be honest , the interior has a lot of lighting etc and the outside a lot of painting. I don’t really know where I am overall with it , it’s hard to tell. All the fiddly bits are on the inside and I’ve only a couple of corridors and the gunner sections to do. I’m going to get delayed as well waiting on LED strips for the last of the three corridors. I’m sure there will be other parts to do while I’m waiting though.

Hi Guys, this week i went to work on the other two corridors. First up the smaller one. Done the usual, used my last LED strips under the floor, put a dirt wash on the floor, added some soot and oil\rust etc to the cushions to make them look more worn, glued them on. then drilled the holes for the corridor lights and glued them on, then wired up the lights. Thats the quick version! Image below..



You can see the corridor below, turned out ok. I was in Aldi and spotted this compact mirror in the second image, so i picked it up and took one of the mirrors out and stuck it to the end of the corridor, as you can see below, it gives the illusion of the corridor continuing on further than it does.. its not perfect but its better than looking at empty space beyond its end!



Next the final corridor, this is the one i cut the sections out last week and added in the wires so it looks like some of the corridor cushions have been removed for access. I did the same here, weathered the cushions, glued them on, drilled the lights etc.. The only thing i cant do yet is the underfloor lighting as i used my last LED strips on the previous corridor above. so i cant complete it until i get more of these.

This corridor has a cut out section as you can see, because when the model is finished the hull pieces come off so you can have a look at the corridor inside. thats why it looks like one side is missing. I also added the other half of the compact mirror to this corridor, you can see it in the last image.



Next up the smaller corridor that leads to the gunner port, sprayed all wall\floor\roof parts german grey. Gave the cushions the usual weathering then glued them on. a wash on the floor. I then attached these two corridors temporarily to the straight one i made last week.



and finally i test fit them together, added the light to the wall in the hold beside the small room i made. put a light above that too to light it up that room, lit up the corridor pieces and took some photos.

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

C'mon, you're just taking the pi$$ now!!!!

So far so good, i havent messed it up yet! im dreading painting the hull though!

Thanks Guys

dudeeile wrote: »

Everything about your build is class, I'm loviong your paintwork and aging, have you much model buildong experience?

Honestly before I signed up for this I never made a model. I bought two to practice on , an AT-ST from Star Wars and a Viper from Battlestar Galactica, you can see them earlier in the thread. Outside of that I spent A LOT of time looking at YouTube videos of painting, weathering , lighting etc.

YouTube is really great for teaching you stuff.

Thanks a lot i appreciate that, ill be happy if it turns out half decent. so far i havent done anything to wreck it. This one is a 1:1 scale with the Empire filming model so should look cool when finished. though i will have to make some sort of table for it as its huge.

You can hang it , in fact you get a fairly strong bracket with it that you could mount it on the wall. But it would be destroyed with dust etc. I think I’ll make a table for it with glass covering it. I’m not sure yet.


When it’s finished it will be 808mm long, 596mm wide and 192mm high.

This image below gives you an idea of size , this one actually looks like a stock one that is just built as is, no painting etc ..

Cool, ill think about it more close to the end, id be lying if i dont have an idea in the back of my head to scratch build the Mos Eisley docking bay 94 for it, sand floor etc, was also thinking of using some kind of minature smoke machines under the base venting through exhaust grills in the ground. it would really make the landing lights pop with the smoke showing the beam etc. ive seen them used in model trains. its just a pipe dream for now ill see at the end!

No Deagostini , I have all the parts. Currently still packed and on hold. I’ll get back to it though. I actually have doubles of a lot of it as my brother was doing it too but he gave up half way through so I got all his bits as well.