My Awesome Millennium Falcon Build Thread!

[hippynumber1]

The website is up and running - £8.99 regular price, 100 issues, same as the Falcon

https://www.deagostini.com/uk/collections/build-your-own-R2-D2/

[hippynumber1]

Getting back 'on thread' - final thing for the underside (until the next things): some dots and lines:

[Mattofthespurs]

The website is up and running - £8.99 regular price, 100 issues, same as the Falcon

https://www.deagostini.com/uk/collections/build-your-own-R2-D2/

That'll make 7 part works im subscribing too now. These bitches know how to steal my money! 

[hippynumber1]

With issue 50 we go right the way back to the first issue (see 1st photo) to begin work proper on the top hull frame

[sheridan]

I never realised how colourful the Falcon is!

[hippynumber1]

I never realised how colourful the Falcon is!

Me neither! Weird, isn't it. I watched the original trilogy recently (and paid particular attention to the scenes with the Falcon in) and all the colours are there!

[sheridan]

I never realised how colourful the Falcon is!

Me neither! Weird, isn't it. I watched the original trilogy recently (and paid particular attention to the scenes with the Falcon in) and all the colours are there!

Then again I must have noticed some colour at some point, as I have a rust-strewn airfix model of the Falcon somewhere (painted on, it's made out of plastic, and I must have painted it on the energetic side of ten years old!)

[hippynumber1]

Continuing work on the upper-hull metal framework







Magnets in bag


Magnets in place


Removable panel held in place by aforementioned magnets.

[hippynumber1]

Another section of upper-hull framework and the first of the upper-hull maintenance recesses (which will be painted at a later date)

[Colin YNWA]

One thing I keep meaning to ask is whats the content of the magazine? Is it just instructions and what not or does it have other content?

[Krakajac]

The instructions only make up a small component of each issue, Colin.

The rest of the stuff is essentially filler - they'll pick a planet/vehicle from the SW universe and natter on about it for a few pages (par for the course with these partwork projects).

It's just hit the newsagents here in Oz - I've just made a start on it myself!  A year behind the UK.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Being seeing this advertised on television.

Build the Millinium-Falcon.com

It's so tempting and yet so dumb of me to even consider this one. I had started on the new Dr Who books that are being sold the same way.

You pay less then ten dollars for the first and about 25 dollars for the subsequent ones afterward. I've been suckered into these before.

I was buying up those How to Build a Robot magazine when I had to stop due to financial troubles. Like I was also buying up the Star Wars magazine at the same time and I eventually to give that one up. The former one, I mentioned was based on the series hosted the guy who is Lister from Red Dwarf. You know, Robot Wars

[hippynumber1]

One thing I keep meaning to ask is whats the content of the magazine? Is it just instructions and what not or does it have other content?

Krakajac is right; half of the mag is essentially filler. There's a section on a different ship each week, a section on a planet (or part thereof), one on some technobabble and then the instructions. First pic is for Colin_YNWA.



More upper-hull framework


Battery pack in place and ready for action.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Getting back 'on thread' - final thing for the underside (until the next things): some dots and lines:

The red paint looks like blood stains....how morbid.

[Colin YNWA]

Thanks for the insight into the magazines chaps. I did wonder with all this talk of 800quid whether there was value in the magazine itself. Mind this thread is worth the 800 on its todd so the fact that I'm not sure I need to have a magazine telling me all about sensory arrays is academic (you have to admire the depth they seem to be going to!)