An RPF Open Source 5 ft Millennium Falcon Build/Reference Thread. All Are Welcome
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Okay so who's up for a little detective work? I've been looking at the ESB mods to the bottom pits trying to figure out the ANH pit. This section was recycled. Looking at the ANH pic do we think the red circled part is original?
NICE find! I was going to guess Hummel, but I think you're spot on.
Necronaut
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About how many 8Rad kits are needed for the build? I’ve seen 5’ Falcon stashes with 12 or 13 8Rad kits. I figure I could get a vacuum pot & pump, vibration table, and a pressure pot for the price of all those kits alone.
Note: They are about $65 CDN each; the older non-etch versions on eBay, which should be cheaper, end up costing me, a Canuckistanian, about the same..
Note: They are about $65 CDN each; the older non-etch versions on eBay, which should be cheaper, end up costing me, a Canuckistanian, about the same..
I foget the exact number, but it's a bunch. I have numer two arriving tomorrow and I'm going to mold a bunch.
Added the numbers. Still missing a few pieces if anyone has any ideas.
Good catch. I mislabeled that one. Thanks!
Looked for this guy in a 194 Airfix kits. No dice. On to the next brand.
Thanks to a generous fellow builder, I was able to complete this today. 
So three pieces of 3/4” plywood plus my top and bottom works out to exactly 2 5/8” for the patty thickness. What do you think?
Looks pretty spot on to my eye. Make sure you like your OD first before making any permanent commitments, because once you nail the height you still have to spend anxious hours fretting about too much or too little or just enough lateral wall real estate to place everything, and while you will indubitably end up fudging here or there by spreading out or compressing in some pieces, you for sure want to have a nice "rough layout" that you're happy with before you lay down any epoxy or CA on the sidewalls. This is the approach I'm taking, at least, as I try to get to this next hurdle in the coming year. It's the part where you realize that in order to really successfully reverse-engineer a Falcon you have to build two Falcons -- one to screw it up completely and one to get it right by learning from the first one.
Definitely going to make a lot more sub assemblies before I glue and screw everything. It's a scary process.
Heck it's going to take forever just to route all these edge pieces. Glad I have my 3D jig. Worked perfectly on these three pieces.
manugu
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Bjorn
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That pit build looks great John! Glad to see all those parts there, and styrene too.Thanks to a generous fellow builder, I was able to complete this today.
There are certainly some saints amongst us.
Also loving that picture of the side wall, visually it looks right.
BTW, you have a very nice display room there.
Thanks. Just got the room finished. Took me three years to build it. Lol. Need to get my artwork up, but it’s coming along.
I thought about that one. I don’t have that kit yet, but I’m afraid the scale might be too small.
Thanks!
