duck
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So about 2 and a half months before Halloween, for some reason we decided to build a (semi) full scale Millennium Falcon cockpit for a float in the annual Woburn (Massachusetts) Halloween Parade. We have a dear friend who has been battling cancer the past two years and he can't march with us any more, so we figured "Let's build a big dumb spaceship and he can ride in style and see the old gang!"
So what started as a simple prop got out of hand quickly. Using the original Full Scale Falcon project as inspiration and seeing how they did it and observing their build, we just dove in.
The scale is probably 85% and the graphics are redrawn in Photoshop based on research pics and a cool file I found on deviant art through a Google search (I'd give the artists full credit if I could remember who it was … I'll edit this post when I find their name again ****EDIT***** I have been informed by Greg, aka SofaKing01, that the deviant art file I apparently used was actually appropriated without credit by some guy on DeviantArt from the work of Starkiller and himself for their amazing 1:1 Full Scale Falcon Build. I am more than happy to be set straight on this and want to express my gratitude for their hard work and research that makes it so easy for guys like me to come in years later and just Google this info and art up. I'd also like to publicly apologize if my corner cutting measure of using that image as a basis for my redrawn Photoshop file was a breach in etiquette. I may have had to redraw all the stuff and rezize it for my measurements in Photoshop at a higher resolution, but I NEVER would have been able to figure out the hundreds of boxes, lines, bells and whistles that those guys researched a drew originally, so thank you to SofaKing01 and Starkiller! **** END EDIT**** ). The ship is mostly wood with a bit of plastic and foam. The lights are LEDs and some old fluorescents my work was throwing out. A lot of material (a LOT of it) was salvaged from my work, actually (we were luckily doing a remodeling, so there was a ton of cool stuff to scavenge).
Anyway, we got the basic ship done in time for the parade and then I finished the interior work the week after Halloween and we debuted it at this past weekend's Rhode Island Comicon where we used it for photo ops to raise over $3600 for the ALS Foundation in the memory of a fallen member.
It's not super accurate and some creative license was taken here and there and it still could use some more detailing inside and work, but in general we think it's pretty neat. Hope you enjoy it.
PART ONE
(Build credit goes to Chris Gregoire, Randy Smith, Bob Gouveia, Joy Powell, Pat Lochelt, Aaron Mistretta, Benn Robbins and myself with trailer assists from Greg Chase and Jeff Gambell)
So what started as a simple prop got out of hand quickly. Using the original Full Scale Falcon project as inspiration and seeing how they did it and observing their build, we just dove in.
The scale is probably 85% and the graphics are redrawn in Photoshop based on research pics and a cool file I found on deviant art through a Google search (I'd give the artists full credit if I could remember who it was … I'll edit this post when I find their name again ****EDIT***** I have been informed by Greg, aka SofaKing01, that the deviant art file I apparently used was actually appropriated without credit by some guy on DeviantArt from the work of Starkiller and himself for their amazing 1:1 Full Scale Falcon Build. I am more than happy to be set straight on this and want to express my gratitude for their hard work and research that makes it so easy for guys like me to come in years later and just Google this info and art up. I'd also like to publicly apologize if my corner cutting measure of using that image as a basis for my redrawn Photoshop file was a breach in etiquette. I may have had to redraw all the stuff and rezize it for my measurements in Photoshop at a higher resolution, but I NEVER would have been able to figure out the hundreds of boxes, lines, bells and whistles that those guys researched a drew originally, so thank you to SofaKing01 and Starkiller! **** END EDIT**** ). The ship is mostly wood with a bit of plastic and foam. The lights are LEDs and some old fluorescents my work was throwing out. A lot of material (a LOT of it) was salvaged from my work, actually (we were luckily doing a remodeling, so there was a ton of cool stuff to scavenge).
Anyway, we got the basic ship done in time for the parade and then I finished the interior work the week after Halloween and we debuted it at this past weekend's Rhode Island Comicon where we used it for photo ops to raise over $3600 for the ALS Foundation in the memory of a fallen member.
It's not super accurate and some creative license was taken here and there and it still could use some more detailing inside and work, but in general we think it's pretty neat. Hope you enjoy it.
PART ONE
(Build credit goes to Chris Gregoire, Randy Smith, Bob Gouveia, Joy Powell, Pat Lochelt, Aaron Mistretta, Benn Robbins and myself with trailer assists from Greg Chase and Jeff Gambell)
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