The Millennium Falcon

It is always good to check what you did the previous day in the morning…

I’m not building an accurate diorama that perfectly recreates the Millenium Falcon in miniature. I’m building a wargaming price that represents it, and it has to be fun to play wargames in. That means my star wars legion figures have to be able to fit easily into The spaces and passageways I’m making.

So, I made some mistakes yesterday.

In order to keep the nice circular shape of the central corridor I made the path leading to the right hand airlock too narrow – I wanted the corridor to be single-file narrow, but it needs to be slightly wider than an Star Wars Legion infantry base.

And the preformed arches, while looking good, stop you from placing a figure in them. Also the circular arch need the cockpit is taking up too much space where the ramp has to go.

The corridors widened easily enough by adding a small cardboard “retaining wall” and filling that frame with more filler.

Cutting back the arches is more worrying, as once they are cut there is no changing my mind. I’m going to try to cut them so they match the shape of the wedge of hull above them…..  But “I have a bad feeling about this”….

….But it worked out fine.

The archway are more like wedge shaped crossesections in one of those books showing cutaways of stars Wars vehicles now. But my wookie and storm trooper are finding it much easier to move around the ship without banging their heads.

I’ve cut out the hole for the ramp, which will also give me better access to the space behind the cockpit that I still need to tidy up. The cut out piece will become the bottom of the sloping ramp – I cut it so about a centimetre of the sloping bull bottom is still attached to the edges – this helps make the access hole a bit wider, and the ramp a bit more rigid than a flat 2d shape would have been.  Nobody likes a floppy ramp.

My Wookie and storm trooper inform me that it is Life Day tomorrow, so they want to down tools and go to the space pub to celebrate, so I’ll sign off and get back to work after the holiday.

Have a great Christmas folks.