The glue to fix in place is still drying so the tape is still securing the plug here.
I ran a cable and plug for a transformer that sits inside the docking bay door, I drilled a hole underneath to allow plug access. I dedcided to run 4 central white LEDs and 2 blues on the outside to give the engines a blue hue on the ends The kit provided all blue LEDs for the engines. The original films show just a white light coming out the back of the falcon but further films and marketing material show a blue band around a white light or all blue. The Madman lighting kit allows 6 engine LEDs and I used 2 for the headlights and 3 to light the cockpit circuit I am building this as a flying model so no landing or red marker lights underneath. Now as much as I want a super bright engine it needs to be a scale light I suppose and I dont want a flash light shining out the back so to speak. This will give some reflection inside the box. I dremeled out the back of the engine box and then fitted the lighting box in place and secured everything with foil tape. The lighting box needed some holes drilled to clear locating holes inside the falcons body. Next I cut the pieces out on the laser, curved the front and rear walls with a heat gun and glued them together. the kit has a box the engine nozzles sit in so I measured the length of the meeting face to the lighting box and was able to hold the engine box up to the screen to get the correct curvature. I drew the pieces out in Corel and cut them in 3mm clear acrylic. I built a light box to fit in behind the engine nozzles. The light in the house is not great for photos it seems. Ive realised some of my photos are a bit dark so I apologise. Hopefully a few of you will enjoy coming along for the journey! With the body having most of the greeblies attatched, it is time for me to look at lighting and building a light box.
Here are our engine fans, some clean up required! These require you to cut, in my case dremel, out the fan housing which had a moulded mock grille in place to place the fan inside. The engine fans are not accurate to the studio model but that's ok, we will see a fan that will give the build some life. This is a big kit with over 800 pieces so slowly going together. and I purchased a Madman Fast Tramp freighter lighting kit. I bought an upgraded cockpit from 308 Bits on shapeways and some clear engine nozzles. feeling a bit dissapointed in where this was heading I shelved the project.įast foward a few years I decided it is time to look at this again. which is far from accurate and the supplied figures for the cockpit were terrible. The PE cockpit was ok but the printing of the provided decals were terrible. I started with buying A PE set that had an upgraded cockpit allowing for lighting and had engine grilles which I wanted. engine and cockpit lighting, a detailed cockpit and upgraded engine fans. There are major differences between the 4 studio models, the 2 sets and the CGI model anyway so at what point am I trying to make something perfect. I just want it to be a good representation where it can be admired as being the falcon. Now I am not looking to build a perfect replica, I am not going to reproduce every mark and line on the model. These Fine Molds kits were hailed at the time for their accuracy and while guys have pointed out a few issues with scale of some areas, really this thing is pretty close to the studio model used in Empire strikes back.
#Millennium falcon cockpit view in hyper speed wall decal upgrade#
I ordered a bunch of upgrade parts through a known vendor who took my money and ran with nothing to show for it so ultimately this led me to finding another model. I bought an MPC kit initially and was shocked at how poor of a representation it was. my goal was to build a good representation of the Falcon to display. I remembered building an MPC kit in my early teen years and thought it would be fun to revisit the build.
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