Slawek's Millennium Falcon - Page 5

**Papermodder** · #41 12-16-2015, 09:32 PM

Thank you K'Jev.

**PhantomCruiser** · #42 12-21-2015, 01:06 PM

Just saw the new movie. I want to build my own more than I did before. I'll be watching your build carefully!

**Papermodder** · #43 12-21-2015, 08:03 PM

Thank you Phantom.

**PhantomCruiser** · #44 12-21-2015, 11:09 PM

What weight cardstock are you using?

**Papermodder** · #45 12-22-2015, 07:50 AM

110lb card.

**AndreyZarkov** · #46 12-22-2015, 11:44 AM

Awesome work! Chewie, we're home!

**milenio3** · #47 12-22-2015, 03:52 PM

A very good quote, Andrey Z!!

Keeping an eye of the Falcon... "The garbage will do!"

**Papermodder** · #48 12-22-2015, 07:35 PM

Thank you Andrey and Gerardo.

**Papermodder** · #49 12-22-2015, 07:41 PM

Good Evening.
Update on my Millennium Falcon.

Since last reporting, finished the Left Docking Port.
Pretty much a repeat of the right one, just some different greebles.

The two Equipment pods for the upper and lower front were next. Those were simple enough pieces to construct.
One wanted to twist pretty bad, but a couple of days with a bit of weight on the back seemed to cure that.

The rest will be resolved when it gets attached to the hull.
The mid rear section with the engine was next.
I had the option of the engine area off or lit. Since this model will be mounted in a flying state, lit was selected.
The graphic for the lit engine had to be laminated over the existing graphic, then left in the press to dry.
During this time the two end side wall pieces were cutout and the greeblies all added.
When dry, the engine graphic was edge glued to the top ring, a bit at a time. Left to dry then glue some more till it was glued in place. The two end pieces where then glued on. There was no bottom support yet. So when attaching the joint to the engine graphic, I used a square to line them up properly. When this was dry the bottom ring was attached. The same procedure as used before.

With the aft mid section done, it is time to assemble all these pieces to form the centre ring.

Thank you for following and MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Questions and comments welcome.

**elliott** · #50 12-22-2015, 09:41 PM

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours Jim! You made quite a bit of progress since the last update. Did you find assembling the engine to the upper and lower rings to be at all difficult or was it just time-consuming? Also I'm having some difficulty envisioning just how you used the square. I understand the why (I think) just not the how.

Obviously what you did worked because it looks great.