[MOC] Plus-Size Millennium Falcon?

[Kit Bricksto]

On 1/3/2020 at 11:33 PM, Willsy said:

Oh thank you so much! I will definitely need to give this a try with my Falcon when I get it back, I have my heart set on the idea of bringing UCS buliding techniques across to it since I cannot afford that set. 

I agree that figuring stuff like this out on the real model is much more practical than using LDD. For my current Falcon WIP I used LDD to figure out the proportions and how I wanted most elements to look and got estimations of how they would connect but I always built them IRL shortly after to figure out the exact connections. You always need to keep in mind that the Falcon can get quite off balance if you're not careful to balance out the weight. So super detailed and heavy mandibles might not hold up the way you hoped they would in LDD. I predesigned mine with all the connection points I possibly could in LDD and luckily it all holds together perfectly but you only really  know once you've built it.
Good luck with your build. The tiny glimpse of your LDD file looks like you're on a good path!  :)

[Willsy]

On 1/5/2020 at 10:21 AM, Kit Bricksto said:

I agree that figuring stuff like this out on the real model is much more practical than using LDD. For my current Falcon WIP I used LDD to figure out the proportions and how I wanted most elements to look and got estimations of how they would connect but I always built them IRL shortly after to figure out the exact connections. You always need to keep in mind that the Falcon can get quite off balance if you're not careful to balance out the weight. So super detailed and heavy mandibles might not hold up the way you hoped they would in LDD. I predesigned mine with all the connection points I possibly could in LDD and luckily it all holds together perfectly but you only really  know once you've built it.
Good luck with your build. The tiny glimpse of your LDD file looks like you're on a good path!  :)

I tried mocking up a mandible with physical bricks and it does seem like it will work, so I think I will just have the mandibles disconnected (or at least only partially connected) in the LDD file. And thank you! I've made a tiny bit of progress since then, I'm starting to fill in the outer mandible and I've made a bit of progress on the docking port. Still a very long way to go yet!

[Sucram]

On 1/5/2020 at 9:21 PM, Kit Bricksto said:

I agree that figuring stuff like this out on the real model is much more practical than using LDD. For my current Falcon WIP I used LDD to figure out the proportions and how I wanted most elements to look and got estimations of how they would connect but I always built them IRL shortly after to figure out the exact connections. You always need to keep in mind that the Falcon can get quite off balance if you're not careful to balance out the weight. So super detailed and heavy mandibles might not hold up the way you hoped they would in LDD. I predesigned mine with all the connection points I possibly could in LDD and luckily it all holds together perfectly but you only really  know once you've built it.
Good luck with your build. The tiny glimpse of your LDD file looks like you're on a good path!  :)

This is absolutely correct. The real question is if @Kit Bricksto 's finished Falcon will ever see the light of day