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  1. ScottishDave
    I've just finished my build of this model, barring a few parts (levers, technic half-pins and robot arms, all in white) which are coming from Poland, hopefully sometime this month. It cost about £150 for the white parts, minus some from my collection, and a few key grey pieces. I think I bought about half the model. I didn't use the internals from EKae's build, so I can't comment on those, and I corrected some issues as I went along (starting with the one that ecmo47 flagged up a few posts ago). I built some landing gear. The Rebels Concept Art for the Tantive IV showed the landing gear positions. I decided to move the gear under the engines to a more solid point. Here is a shot showing the landing gear - the stack of round bricks in the middle is the "passenger lift". Here is the model beside my heavily modified UCS Falcon, for size comparison. The mini falcon is to scale with the Tantive IV.
  2. ScottishDave
    Thank you bricksmarlin, that's good to know. I see from your pictures that you used the shorter part, and it looks good. Thank you also for the breakdown of the sides of the model: very helpful. My bricks have all arrived, except for the white robot arms and levers from Poland, so I should be able to start building this weekend.
  3. ScottishDave
    Thanks for the tip!
  4. ScottishDave
    I'm very happy to do so :-). I wouldn't bother with the 3941 (round bricks): as Mortesv said, they aren't necessary. The 4275/6 (old style flat hinges) show a little bit on the LXF (as you can see if you look closely) so ideally should be in white or grey if you insist on using them: but I think that the panels they attach are incorrectly positioned (should be closer to the center line) and I personally plan to do something else. What? I don't know yet. "I'll think of something." Each to their own! I probably won't get around to building the rest of the fleet this year, so in the meantime I'm opting for a slightly more "grounded" display. I think I see what you mean about maybe needing an extra foot or two - it might be a little nose heavy. We'll see.
  5. ScottishDave
    Thank you Mortesv for this incredible design, and to EKae for taking the time to reverse-engineer it. I've just placed bricklink orders for this build. I plan to buy Mortesv's instructions when they become available, but I couldn't wait. I did not buy any of the transparent parts for the stand. I will probably display it with landing gear down. The Star Wars Rebels Wiki page has some nice clear concept art of the Tantive IV's landing gear deployed: http://starwarsrebels.wikia.com/wiki/File:Gathering_Forces_Concept_12.jpg I also did not buy any of the parts for EKae's internal framework. I can design my own, and make sure it is strong and light enough. The total came to about £150 over 9 orders (but I sourced some of the parts from my own collection). For anyone in the UK wondering which parts are likely to be expensive: Large white plates - for some reason, all the plates larger than 4x4 were expensive and rare. I decided to use smaller plates to make up the needed sizes. 3x3 double slopes - thankfully, you only need 4, but only a few shops have them and they are pretty expensive for a single piece. I worked them into my orders anyway. 1 x 4 x 5 half-cylinders. 22 required for the engines and barely any available. I substituted the older 1 x 4 x 4 cylinders and an extra 4x4 round white brick for each engine. White levers - ONE shop in the UK has sufficient quantities, at £1 each. Ouch. White Technic half-pins. There are 6 for sale in the UK, at quantities of one each. White Robot arms - also very, very rare. I ordered these fiddly parts from a shop in Poland, and I expect to wait weeks for them to arrive.
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    I'd like to second, third and fourth the other replies. I have seen a lot of Lego Falcons in my time. This one has enornous potential. I love the way that you've actally made it a proper dome, not a bunch of straight panels. Do keep it up, please - I'd love to see where this one is going, and you've "proved" the concept. Also, since you are working in CAD to get it just right, you might find this site interesting, and particuarly these plans of the Falcon.
  7. ScottishDave
    Hey Jemakrol, it's always good to see someone else embarking on this insane project. Building it "straight" is boring. I like what you did with the Y-Wing. In that spirit I'd like to suggest you take a look at my Falcon engine mod - my thread is here (and linked in my signature). The modified engines look insanely cool, are more accurate than the original, and cost a fraction of the price of two LBG boat riggings. The rest of my mods are probably more expensive than the originals: but one suggestion I do have is to actively seek out old, chewed-up, yellowed and grotty "old grey" plates for the hull. Mixed with the modern plates they look great, and add depth and character to the model. Good luck with your build - I shall be keeping an eye on this thread.
  8. ScottishDave
    Excellent, glad to hear it. BTW I just noticed that someone posted on Reddit about a printing error in the instructions: " in step 9 of page 74 of book one it tells you to attach a 1x3 plate in the lower left, it should actually be a 1x1 plate. In later steps the instructions show it as having the correct 1x1 plate instead of the 1x3 plate on page 83." So watch out for that. The Parts List was generated from the LXF file, and is (or should be!) correct.
  9. ScottishDave
    Looks like I had them stored in my Dropbox Public Folder, which was just fine until Dropbox decided to stop the use of Public Folders! Luckily directly linking the files still works. Just to be sure, here are all the files you might need: PDF Instructions 1 PDF Instructions 2 LXF file Parts List Have fun building it.
  10. ScottishDave
    Hi Louis, welcome to Eurobricks! Your question makes a great first post, and I share your enthusiasm for this classic Star Wars Ship. As Krisandkris12 mentioned, I have been nuts enough to build one of these things, so I shall try to answer your question. More information is available on the thread on my Falcon model. My Falcon started life as a clone of the 10179 UCS Millennium Falcon, built with parts from other sets or bought off the internet (all genuine lego, no clone bricks). Back in 2010 I think it cost me £260. These days it may well be more expensive. I'm not the only one who has done this: search this forum for "Bricklinked UCS Falcon" for lots and lots of guidance and tips. If you do bricklink a UCS Falcon, you wil end up with model measuring 88 cm/32 inches long, which is easily minifig scale (1:40 if I recall correctly). The two downside of the stock, basic, run-of-the-mill UCS Falcon are: firstly, that it has no interior to speak of, and secondly, in common with many official models it is not quite as accurate as one would prefer. I therefore rebuilt my model totally, added an interior and modified the outer hull to better match the "real" Falcon. If you like my exterior changes, I have just added an LXF file for most of those bits to my thread (see link above or click on the Falcon in my signature). I don't plan to put the interior and framework into LXF any time soon. Sorry, but I don't get time to do much Lego these days! If you want to take the LXF I just posted as a starting point and add your own framework & interior using the UCS model as a guide - feel free. All the parts I posted are "compatible" with the UCS Falcon, with a bit of work!
  11. ScottishDave
    I'm very glad to see the best part of the design still being used. For the record: you are forgiven for that part at least. Hey, I put it out for free in the first place, so I'm not about to turn around and get shirty now! Seriously - well done. Copying something accurately, and making improvements on it, is a skill in itself. One note - my own Falcon, built with "stressed brick" engines, is a few years old now, and the engine bricks don't appear to have cracked - so I reckon that you could have gotten away with it. The brass rods definitely look cool, however.
  12. ScottishDave
    Wow. I've seen the work-in-progress pics on your flickr stream, and I knew it was going to be good, but this is even better than I thought it would be. It looks really, really accurate. I love the balance of studs to studless, and I like how the wings are built - just like the UCS Imperial Shuttle. Your WIP pictures showed some interior - is that still in the model? Is it accessible?
  13. ScottishDave
    Those are great pictures of the interior, legoSWfan. I also found some fore-and-aft pictures cropped from the visual guide on a Star Wars news blog I can see that my initial concern was misplaced - the total height of the ship may be fine. You certainly seem to have the correct amount of height above and below the wings. However, maybe the top section needs hollowing out some more :-). This being the case - I think that the troop compartment may be too long.
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    Ellis, this just keeps getting better and better. You've done a great job capturing the sleekness of the U-wing. The old X-Wing canopy looks great, and is exactly the right size. I can't find any really good reference on the U-Wing, so I can't say for sure, but it looks almost TOO long and sleek. I'm not complaining, mind - it's a great antidote to the chubby chibi lego TLG model - but I wonder if the engines are too narrow and the troop compartment too shallow? Good luck with this, and I hope to see a final version in real bricks sometime.
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    I'm glad I inspired you: and I'm delighted with the results. I counted the studs last night. I may be a stud or two off, but I make it almost 133 studs long, or 105cm: which makes it just under 1:42 - the same scale as the UCS Falcon, sure enough. That totally sells it for me - I really have to try and build this beauty now!
  16. ScottishDave
    That looks utterly fabulous! Congratulations on completing this marathon project. Thank you for the .lxf file as well - very nice! My nine-year-old wants to know if I'm going to build it, and if so, where I'm going to PUT it (the obvious answer is "his room", so I guess that's what he's angling for!) One tip for anyone else having problems opening this file: switch OFF the "Outline on bricks" option and restart LDD before you try to open the file.
  17. ScottishDave
    Hmmmm... that sounds like truly desperate measures. Before you go that far, how about this older bracket ? That should give you an off-centre plate with a hole, and as an added bonus, you can use them for some snot. I'd suggest having one with studs pointing up, one with studs pointing down, and the axle providing a (loose) join between the two. ...
  18. ScottishDave
    Thanks for fixing that so promptly - it looks much more accurate now! Seriously, that was the only thing that was bothering me. The rest of the model looks damn fine, and the shots with the landing gear down are quite lovely. Good luck with the physical bricks build.
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    Cehnot, this is brilliant. You have gone all-out for accuracy to the studio model, and I greatly appreciate it. I'm especially impressed with the shape of the forward fuselage - It actually beats Inthert's solution for the T-65 (although his is spot-on for the T-70). THANK YOU for sharing this LXF file - I plan to study it most closely and use some parts of it in my own model. You may even have persuaded me to use the TLG canopy... Have you had a chance to build any of this in real bricks yet? I'd be very interested to know how strong and sturdy it is.
  20. ScottishDave
    No: if there were, I'd have put them on this thread . Thanks to DjHaak for the answers - the figure of 130 £/$/€ sounds about right to me. I just tested the new Bricklink import on the LXF file from this thread, and it worked perfectly. You should be good to go.
  21. ScottishDave
    Thank you scythelt, Drakuhl and Iperial_Fleet_Commander: I really appreciate the positive feedback! Drakhul: thanks, I'm blushing. I'm glad you appreciated what I was trying to do with the city.
  22. ScottishDave
    Hi braddavis2017, Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate them. What he said :-). I've tried it myself - it produces a rather nice MS Excel document, complete with pictures. I even opened it in OpenOffice on my mac, just to see... it worked fine. Thank you Flandy, much appreciated.
  23. ScottishDave
    Well done: it looks really, really good. I love that top view - and I do agree, it looks "as good as it gets". About the only thing that I would do differently is the angle of the rear edge of the wing - it looks to me as if three 2x4 wedge plates would be perfect, instead of the 3x12 that you used. However, I have a strong feeling that you used the 3x12 due to considerations of strength and rigidity, and I can't fault that. There are some side views of x-wings available... perhaps not photographs of the original filming miniatures, but just typing "x-wing side view" into Google produced a fairly consistent set of pictures... and your x-wing matches up really well. I wish I had the time to test this - but alas, "real life" has forgotten its rightful place and is interfering with my lego time. Well done again, and I look forward to seeing the finished LXF at some point!
  24. ScottishDave
    Welcome back to building: and what a fantastic model to start with. I love the nose - the angles are perfect. The smoothness of those wings... What does the underside look like? Is it fit to photograph? Congratulations on getting a budget and some space of your own - I hope you get to build many more models.
  25. ScottishDave
    Hi eazy1, Thanks for the feedback. I'll double-check my spreadsheets when I get a chance, and make sure that the parts lists are correct. Can you remember which extra parts you had to order, by any chance? I'm afraid that the build instructions generator in LDD is famous for being random and irritating. I hear that it is better if you group the model into logical sections and import them into a new file. I'm glad that, overall, you enjoyed the build. I hope you and your 3-year-old have fun smashing the Resistance :-).
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