My Awesome Millennium Falcon Build Thread!

[hippynumber1]

it's the weird thumb-ring that I find distracting! 

No need to get personal. 

[hippynumber1]

I know its not the point but can we see a photo of your work table? That' jewel' design we see glimpses off feels so familar to me but I have no context of how the table as a whole works?

As the Falcon seems to be getting ever closer I don't want to leave this thread without at least once seeing its unsung co-star.

I've been admiring that table too

You guys are...weird. 

Oh come on we have over 13000 posts on a comic forum, you excepted well adjusted?

These things are all relative but fair point, well made.

[hippynumber1]

Because you demanded it: here's the Edwardian drinks' tray I bought (for a pittance, I might add) specifically for working on the fiddlier sections of the falcon. High sides and nice handles meant that no tiny parts could roll away unnoticed and I could carry it easier than one without handles! Sorry it isn't a table...

[Colin YNWA]

No, no the fact that its a victorian tray makes it all the finer. You've managed to further romanticise the whole endeavour a little more.

Oh so practical as well!

[hippynumber1]

Cockpit finalised and glazed





Revised battle-damage



Cockpit fixed to upper-hull

[hippynumber1]

Dorsal gun-turret modified and glazed



Dorsal gun-turret fixed to upper-hull; gun-well added plus access ladder to dorsal and ventral gun-wells



Dorsal gun-well light test.

[hippynumber1]

You'll like this: upper and lower hull finally come together.

[Something Fishy]

That is a darned fine model.

[Zarjazzer]

It looks so awesome all it needs is an ISD to turn up and start firing.

[Colin YNWA]

That's a bit special that is. Good I can't believe how close we... well okay you... are to the end.

[hippynumber1]

 Side panels before:



...and after



And fitted:







Right between the mandibles!



A bit of torchlight required here:

[hippynumber1]

More side panels, before



And after



And fitted



Docking rings before



And after



And fitted

Port


Starboard

[Zarjazzer]

That last piccie  I half expect  Han and Chewie  to come down the ramp. Awesome stuff.

[Mardroid]

It's lovely isn't it?

I saw a couple of issues of the Back to the Future Delorian in the W H Smiths today (I thought it had been out for a good while. Maybe the earlier one was a try-out or something). If the photograph on the back was accurate, part of me really yearned to get them, but I can't afford them right now. (Well I could just about afford the first issue, but what's the point of that?)

Sorry slightly off-topic, but not entirely unrelated. This sort of thing, classic space ships and vehicles is far more up my street than the old airfix plane type stuff, although they're nice too.

Anyway, your effort, hard work and diligence does you credit hippynumber1*, especially going that extra mile with the paint jobs and extra battle damage etc. I'm not sure I'd have the patience or skill for that, although I'd probably manage the basic assembly. Assuming the instructions are up to scatch.

(I'm curious how the finished craft looks like without the optional paint job. A side-by-side comparison of pictures would be interesting. I'm not suggesting you do that.) 

I really look forward to seeing the final shots.

*Dear me that looks patronising, but I don't mean it that way. You've done a wonderful job.

[hippynumber1]

There are a few people who have done the basic job on it, I'll see if I can do a side-by-side comparison at the end. I've been learning this (paint-job, battle damage, etc) as I've been going along so really appreciate the compliment; it wasn't patronising at all. I feel very proud of what I've achieved with the old hunk of junk.