An RPF Open Source 5 ft Millennium Falcon Build/Reference Thread. All Are Welcome

JSchneider said:
Okay… here it is. Looks like everything works out. You need to cut the Stug ring down to right around 1.78” in diameter to match the Saturn ring OD. So far in fact, there’s not much left of the Stug ring. So be careful. I had more left on the casting, than the actual part. It gets VERY think there!

Then you have the cut the Saturn ring height down to your preference. I went with about 0.30” tall in these photos. I spread the Stug hinges out a little bit to better hold the wire. I used plastruct butyrate coated wire. I can’t find the invoice, but it is the smallest size they have which comes in black or gray.

I have to tell you I was concerned when I opened the Saturn box and started looking at the part. I didn’t think the side angle was sloped enough. But once it’s together it looks alright.

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And when looking at Stug ring from behind you can tell they used 8 ISE Hyuga guns on the outside edge as the supports to glued to the dish, but you can also see that there is enough room for some extra center ISE guns towards the cemetery of ring. So I would assume those imside supports we saw in the photos are also from ISE/Hyuga. Just my two cents.

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Looks spot on! Congrats!
 
Thanks for letting me post about this John! I appreciate it. I know that it's an "Open Source" thread now... ;), but don't mean to hijack anything. LOL That Saturn part just looked off to me when I opened the kit up and for about 20 minutes the thought crossed my mind "That can't be it...?". I just wanted to run it by some of our fellow cohorts to make sure I wasn't losin' it that the parts height got cut down that far. Haha! Threw me off a little and made me start questioning things a bit. Maybe even another contributing factor was that I have been staring at the map so long lately looking for all the little stuff my brain even thought for a minute at first that the "Saturn" parts side might be curved since the colored in version does look curved to me for some reason in the map, until you pull up the reference photos. WOW! "Question EVERYTHING. Trust No One." que X-Files theme song... LOL

This would be helpful info for any future weirdos and nutjobs that want to build this thing as well I figured. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming... Haha!

Tip 'o the Day: Make sure before you start laying things out, know damn well that YOU ARE going to get the bug to just go ahead and glue it all up while you're doing it. Why do it twice if you don't have to? LOL Always, always, always make sure you have toothpicks in the house... and when you run out of micro glue applicator tips, make sure you order them immediately otherwise you'll forget and not have them when you need them! You'll end up gluing your fine point tweezers and some other improvised mini-tools together trying to use them as a toothpick, and you'll end up making a mess of everything anyways on top of it. I thought I had built up more patience than that by this point. Haha!
 
Getting ready to add numbers. Still missing that front piece. I believe we have everything else labeled.
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So in the dish map, there's no 187 or I don't see it. Also, the part that has fallen off is not labeled unless that's 187?
 
So this was a test of 2mm styrene using the same settings. Obviously it got a little hot. However after just three passes it had scored enough for me to just pop it out. This circle is 11 inches.

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