Amazing build! I'm sure you know this. I've really enjoyed this. thanks for sharing.
Any recent developments on this?
- Master Tej -
Yes ! In my mind. After a chat with Paul Huston it became obvious what they built is overkill, overheavy, and over oldschool ! I really want something lighter for ease of move and transport, I think Im going to use Forex (Sintra for you US guys) for the large ribs, square tubing instead of round tubing? For the hull, I could use 3mm Forex with a lot of holes to save weight skinned with 1mm acrylic. 4mm acrylic would be way too heavy for that but I still need the outer coat to be acrylic (forex is to soft). I think I can save a lot of weight and it still will be as strong.
Hi Greg, good to hear from you !
Yeah I remember those good old days !
Could you elaborate about the problems you had with the holes in the ribs ? I was planning to do some in mines. Did they have less rigidity ? I'm planning to use 15mm Sintra for them, should be plenty enough. I may add some plywood reinforcements here and there (mainly where the superstructures sit on the inner frame).
Hi Greg, good to hear from you !
Yeah I remember those good old days !
Could you elaborate about the problems you had with the holes in the ribs ? I was planning to do some in mines. Did they have less rigidity ? I'm planning to use 15mm Sintra for them, should be plenty enough. I may add some plywood reinforcements here and there (mainly where the superstructures sit on the inner frame).
Thank you TimeLord !
Yes ! In my mind. After a chat with Paul Huston it became obvious what they built is overkill, overheavy, and over oldschool ! I really want something lighter for ease of move and transport, I think Im going to use Forex (Sintra for you US guys) for the large ribs, square tubing instead of round tubing? For the hull, I could use 3mm Forex with a lot of holes to save weight skinned with 1mm acrylic. 4mm acrylic would be way too heavy for that but I still need the outer coat to be acrylic (forex is to soft). I think I can save a lot of weight and it still will be as strong.
They were awesome days, we ALL achieved a lot, and uncovered so much back then, was fun!
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This thread is 4 and a half years old now....at this point of building this, George would be like, "Don't worry about finishing the model, we already finished the movie without it." haha
Yeah but I dont have the budget nor the builders team of ILM. And I'm not throwing the parts on the model in a random way like they did !
Just for your information, the model was not finished in some shots of TESB !
Im pretty sure some guys take more time to build a MPC model than building a 8' long model with more than 5000 parts to identify.
Anyway it could take another 4 years to finish her ! Or maybe more... but I have to decide if my drawings of the hull are accurate or no.