[WIP][MOC] Echo Base Hanger Display for UCS Millennium Falcon

[JangoFett140]

Not one to start small for a few weeks now I've been working on flushing out the Echo Base Hanger display I want to build for my UCS Millennium Falcon. I've been planning this since the set was announced but couldn't really start till I had the set in hand to base everything off. It will be in a glass coffee table I'll be building to display it. The planned layout is currently 47.5" by 41.75" but I may go to 47.5" x 47.5". I'm going to use Stricklybricks 50x50 baseplates with one set getting trimmed down. I'm trying to be as accurate as possible and get all the little details I'm finding as I research that I haven't seen before. This will also display some of the rest of my collection so the ships inside will be a mix besides the Falcon. My 99 X-Wing and probably one of Cehnot's beauties and 4 different official speeder sets spanning the years. I'm using Migui94's Falcon as a placeholder as I work to confirm sizing in addition to the physical test layout I have set up.

I see that last week Cehnot also started basically the same project with similar goals but he is going for the whole hanger while I only have room for some of it with size limitation. Can't wait to see his take shape and maybe collaborate on a few elements. I'm building in Stud.io first since I don't have the money to start buying all the bricks and figure it out by physical trial and error.

So to get started with where I am at here is an over view of the layout. I have a lot of detailing to do on the walls but I've been waiting till I had the structural strength and sizing dialed in first as I kept tweaking. I originally had 2 full bays but they wouldn't hold an X-Wing so I widened it and also ended up raising them to fit the vents.

This top down view with the yellow fence shows the 41" width. and the potential space if I expand to 47". I'm going to curve the wall behind the Falcon some more but I'm not going to go all the way around to keep the sides of the Falcon visible through the sides of the table.

This front view of the bay shows the vents in the top of the bays. My current thought was stickers to detail the vents but i will probably revisit them to look ate a brick based option but scale is a limit here.

The Cat Walk for the X-Wings is an item that has been done but lacking in detail. I used Enderman eye plates for the side detailing. The current support beam X cross braces are temporary. After much thinking and tinkering I decided to design and print custom pieces to go there. The 3L bar on top will be cut in half to finish the top rail on the ends. I do like Cehnot's top rail better though and may try to rework mine based on his.

Some small detail builds I have are the (quite silly) Treadwell 1016 droid briefly seen twice (somehow it gets on top of the Falcon with treads...). I also have a fuel tanker cart seen between the Falcon and the X-Wing. The floor light took days to get the scale right and try to be easily lit from below. The plan it to get vinyl stickers for the sides to cover the trans-clear plates then put an LED under them trough a hole in the baseplate. Not shown here is that the front 1x2 plate is clear while the 2 under the slope grills are trans med blue to get the right light out the back.

I have lots more to do but finally felt I had enough to start sharing. Any suggestions on how to improve something are welcome! I will also be overhauling the Falcon itself to be more ESB accurate. Haven't yet decided on adding an interior since it will be in a closed display. -JF140/Cody

Edited February 5, 2018 by JangoFett140

[chris592]

I wish you all the luck, sounds like a mammoth undertaking, hope you have a big room to display it as 47.5" x 47.5" is big.  I like the idea of the floor lights, any plans to light it from the top also?

[cehnot]

Glad to see this. Love the power generator. I like your service sentry. The pipe work is nice, I may go back to mine eventually, for now, keep plugging away.

I posted a LDD in my section for the air ducts per your request. I also put a link up on my brick safe for you to download the file and mod it for yourself. I would suggest using my cone for the falcon area, but right now I need to finish that area with the caves behind it. The goal for the LDD is to make my design modular and give people the ability to pick sections to make smaller mocs from. The falcon area fits on 4 baseplates (48 stud each). The hangar I am designing will be both snow speeder and x-wing bays. I  think I want to map out the entire Echo Base, but again, not build the whole thing. Just parts. If I won the lottery then I guess I would build the entire Echo Base and put it on display somewhere. I did a rough guess and it would be about 30 ft long by 20 ft wide. 

[JangoFett140]

On 1/31/2018 at 1:23 AM, chris592 said:

I wish you all the luck, sounds like a mammoth undertaking, hope you have a big room to display it as 47.5" x 47.5" is big.  I like the idea of the floor lights, any plans to light it from the top also?

I'd like to, we'll just have to see how the final design for the table ends up. As for space I already have a 48" x 60" NES coffee table that I build huge for LAN parties. So I'll be finishing it and selling it to make room for this project. The Falcon is sitting on it now to help me figure out sizing. (my poor X-Wing still has no wings)

On 1/31/2018 at 4:49 AM, cehnot said:

Glad to see this. Love the power generator. I like your service sentry. The pipe work is nice, I may go back to mine eventually, for now, keep plugging away.

I posted a LDD in my section for the air ducts per your request. I also put a link up on my brick safe for you to download the file and mod it for yourself. I would suggest using my cone for the falcon area, but right now I need to finish that area with the caves behind it. The goal for the LDD is to make my design modular and give people the ability to pick sections to make smaller mocs from. The falcon area fits on 4 baseplates (48 stud each). The hangar I am designing will be both snow speeder and x-wing bays. I  think I want to map out the entire Echo Base, but again, not build the whole thing. Just parts. If I won the lottery then I guess I would build the entire Echo Base and put it on display somewhere. I did a rough guess and it would be about 30 ft long by 20 ft wide. 

Thanks for the files! From what I could tell I thought the vents were round but with your file and pics I caught the bits that showed I was wrong so I have now rebuilt mine. Also from one of the pics you had I reworked a lot of the Cat Walk. Redid the greebling to be more accurate and rebuilt the feet.


 

Big thing I have been working on is the Command Center. This will be above the speeder bays as seen below. Hard to find great reference material for the exact layout. Lots of maps have different Console arrangements so I used ESB as the base and then filled in from other stuff what made the most sense.

The Consoles and Computers and Screens will us custom stickers I'll make. Found Frank Diorio's website who makes diorama's for the figures and will use his designs as the base design for the stickers. The clear wedge of the Consoles will be lit by LED fiber optic so the sticker placed on it will light up.

The door is an area that is contradicted by everything. ESB clearly shows 2 halves that separate while every map has it a single door the slides to the side. I'm probably going to rebuild the door tonight to be better detailed. I then have the hall outside where they argue. Still need to do hoses and i think ill go ahead and narrow the hall on that end by the vent.

Edited February 4, 2018 by JangoFett140
fix pic

[dvogon]

On 4/2/2018 at 10:09 PM, JangoFett140 said:

Big thing I have been working on is the Command Center. This will be above the speeder bays as seen below. Hard to find great reference material for the exact layout. Lots of maps have different Console arrangements so I used ESB as the base and then filled in from other stuff what made the most sense.

That's very interesting. A realistic film-based Command Center has been usually overlooked in other MOCs, many of them excellent ones. It has close shots in the film, so difficult to get it right, I guess.

Edited February 5, 2018 by dvogon

[Atheos]

Wow, just wow... this is epic

[JangoFett140]

On 3/10/2018 at 12:19 PM, Atheos said:

Wow, just wow... this is epic

Thanks Atheos!

Had to take break to finish up a board game prototype for a convention but I had some time to do some more work this weekend. Focused on the Command Center and reworked everything except the wall the doors are in but it will be getting over hauled. Where I'm placing it in the main layout has put me in a pinch. I need to have about 4 more studs of space to fit the "Alf" shelf and door. I think I'm gonna flip the CC around and push out the back wall of the bays to make room for it.

So this build is my first foray into SNOT building and my first big change using SNOT is the supports/cable runs. I really wanted the black plates to be ingots to give more texture but I just couldn't make it work.

The screen consoles got a recolor and adjusted. Raised the height on the top of the terminals and made a few other tweaks. Want to add details to the side of the terminals next.

Rebuilt the doors using SNOT. Built whatever the cylinder is.

I feel like they filmed this scene way later and just threw random props in the room cause you look at where some of this started and where it ended up doesn't work.

Edited March 12, 2018 by JangoFett140