It's called scratch ? Oops, corrected that. See, I even learn english while building the Falcon

"Still managed to rip the upper decal for the back wall in two (just noticed that you can see the crack on the photo, it's barely visible in real, and I can add some small dip of black to hide it completely)."

Looks like a fine time sharpie could fix the issue

Continuing to work on the corridors. Cutting an filing away pieces of the original floor to lighten up the Paragrafix parts.



I actually bought a circular saw for my Proxxon, saw it on someone's topic (sorry, I look them all, steal good ideas, but am very bad at remembering names ....) This circular saw is a BEAST. I'm surprised they can sell it without putting tons of warnings around the blister. I think it could easily cut all the way to your finger bones and even a bit into if you don't pay attention for a split second ... or ... like it often happens to me when working with bare hands instead of bench vice (don't have one at home to my shame) slip ....



So, the corridor floors ... added a few LEDs to the first part after painting it white (for a little better light reflection). Yes, I know, could have done this nicier, but hey, nobody's gonna see it later.



With the floor in place and the lights connected ... The actual gaps between the floor and the walls won't be visible, as the cushions (or whatever they are) will block line-of-sight. Just need imagine something for the corridor connections .... Oh, was wondering what color to give the lights ... I think white is correct for the ESB Falcon. Looks like yellow in the ANH version .... Please, De Ago, give us an access to the pictures you made from the original model, like Steve Dymszo promised us in his videos (that link is NOT working), I'm so fed up to filter through the few pics you see on the internet, and decide if it's an ANH pic or ESB (I think I saw by now three different layouts for the tubes on the first wall ....)



The wall behind the navigation computer is also nearly finished. Oh, by the way, I had to redo the entire corridor ring from the first wall, as the Paragrafix part snapped off when I tried to fit it to the floor. Looks like I glued it in place a little bit too low and the tension that was put on it when I tried to snap the wall and the floor together made it fly off. More work, more work, I'll post a pic when the wall is finally finshed .... the two first tubes are.



And finally, I tried some colors for the hull. I saw a post where someone did the same, but in the end he selected an ivory colors that's not available in Europe (spray bombs and air delivery .. no no no). From left to right, Tamiya Insignia White spray (the color Steve Dymszo recommends), Vallejo Light Ivory, Citadel Screaming Skull and Hunbrol Ivory (the Citadel and Humbrol colors look exactly the same to me, but think the Citadel color works better with my airbrush). Anyway, both of the first colors are too light, the other two colors are too yellowish. Perhaps I'll try to mix some more of the color for the Fine Molds Falcon ... althou I think it looks more like Tamiya Grey Primer. Don't know, don't know ...

Thx Mark

Thanks.

First a pic of the cargo hold so far. Pieces are just stuck together. Think the extra bits on the bunk's side will be next and a few small bits around the hallway. Oh, yes, a pic (even if just made with a smartphone) show so much details you don't see in RL. (Or do I need glasses?)



Worked on the cockpit corridor too. LEDs glued to the floor. Floor painted white. Basically the same process like for the main corridor.





On to the main corridor. The floor got a treatment with Nuln Oil to make it look dirty. And in the movies there are a lot of the "cushions" missing and you see internal tubings and cables. So on to do that ... First I needed to draw a line to show me how much to cut out of the walls, about 2mm less then the cushions' size.





Then I cut out styrene pieces from a 0.4 mm sheet, primed them black and glued small tubes and cables in different colors onto them. Tried to match the movies as closely as possible, but it's impossible, as the corridor size is different. (Oh, yes, the Paragrafix hatches are still missing, so the corridor floor looks weird in these two places. I will later glue them on, will put them straight on top, not showing the open floor like some may do, as it would show the underlying cables and all. I just imagine that showing these hatches open would have ment to do a lot of scratch building, essentially, building a complete smuggling hold)





On to the corridor top. Drilled holes for the LEDs ... Tried different sizes and intensities. Went for 3mm 9000mcd ones. I built some kind of bulb sockets for them :-)



With the LEDs inside:



You don't see them from the inside but I still have to built the sconces.



Lit up ...



And a series of pics to show you how it looks when stuck in together. First without any lights.



Just ceiling lights on:



Ceiling and floor lights:



So, what do you think? I like it. Not perfect, but I like it. Now I can add the final pieces to the corridor, but I don't think I can show final pics soon, as the cockpit corridor and the gun turret corridor need to be finished before I can finish this, due to a little gap between the corridor floors that I need to fill with putty or green stuff, else light will shine through them.

Arkkam. Looking good. I do want to point out one thing which may become an issue for you, which I ran into myself and had to redo. I had regular LEDs going into the walls as well for my sconces, but then the upper hull wouldn't fit over the corridors. I had to remove them and I used SMD LEDs instead because of the extreme low profile. HOWEVER, it was only the straight corridor that was the main issue. You can see in my photo here (from my post #350). Just wanna give you a heads up (and anyone reading) due to personal experience.

http://s1056.photobucket...015_zpsbqt5s0xk.jpg.html

I did leave my regular LEDs on the curved corridors. I think those areas are fine. It's just the straight one to the cockpit.

Ok, will wait with the straight corridor's light. Still have much to do with the cockpit and cargo hold anyway.

And plan to use an Aduino board. Let´s see if I can get it to work ... I think it has a module for audio ... hmmm, or better a Raspberry?

And the Miniature-wonderland in Hamburg (http://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/) has a plane taking off a runway ... Wouldn´t that be cool? Wonder how they did it. Retracting landing gear doesn´t seem possible, I read a blog somewhere from a guy who worked together with an engineer in Robotics on the landing gear, and they didn´t find a way to do it.

Yeah... the straight cockpit corridor is a monster. The tolerance between the top hull and the top of the corridor tube is very tight and you don't have alot of room whatsoever to fit the large LEDs in there. I am going with the SMDs myself. May actually dig a trench to hold the wires so they aren't a problem either.