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Scratchbuild 32" Portburger (Millennium Falcon) - Aurora - 02-08-2011 Time to finally post. Right now i think i spent little over year on an off doing some basic research. First looking for plans most of the plans out are off so i had to remake them luckly i found plans posted by Josh and his are very close. But i found some errors or difference in opinion so i had to rework them wasnt by much major difference was dome curve. When i get some free time an i am not working on this i will finalized the plans and release them. Currently they are a bunch of shapes in a vector program which will give me distances in any unit of measurement. But the plans will be step by step no unknown sizes that some one will have to guess and i want to make them so a first time builder like my self can hit the ground running The armature currently i have plans on having it made out of 1 in aluminum square tubbing. I found a local metal shop that can make it for a far price so will need to visit on a weekday. I like to something done right and paying a few bucks up front will make this easier in the end So got the basic shape cut and i have the ribs and support cut. Hopefully school work will lighten up and i will get a chance to work on the other half -Eric RE: Scratchbuild 32" Millennium Falcon - Aurora - 02-10-2011 thought i post a smaller update i was able to rib the other half with the support struts. I am going away from the "traditional" way of building, i really enjoy having this on a flat table i dont have to worry if my model is not level. Only problem is that the longer i put off the armature the longer it will be in half basically covering my kitchen table I also got to determine the lights currently i am leaning to the el sheet find it gives the best overall look but not accurate to the model it self RE: Scratchbuild 32" Portburger (Millennium Falcon) - kbilly - 02-10-2011 You're off to a great start. I never tire of seeing falcon builds and like how everyone has their own take on how to go about building it. RE: Scratchbuild 32" Portburger (Millennium Falcon) - peza - 07-10-2012 eh up buddy i`m really interested in all the 32" millenium builds goin on, i`ve just joined the site and am buildin my own,but due to a shoe string budget i can`t really afford to buy many kits,so far i`ve bought 4 panther tanks for the engine detail,but i`m after any good images of the side detail by the cockpit and on the other side.the pieces in question are circular engine or gearbox bits,i have heard that it`s off a porsche 935 and a rotary engine.do you have any good images cos i think i`m gonna end up scratchin these pieces up.any help would grateful.........peza RE: Scratchbuild 32" Portburger (Millennium Falcon) - JAWS - 07-10-2012 Thanks for posting Aurora & welcom to the crew. Have to agree with kb on never tiring watching a Falcon build. Just had flas backs to my first styrene cutting adventure looking at your pics. Sharing your work is what this site is all about & I thank you for all those that won't for doing so. Theres plenty of extremely talented Falcon builders at this site at times so you are in good company. Cheers. Peza you need to PM 'mensaboy' about his ENTEX 1/8 Porsche sets. If you don't have any luck send me a PM please.