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Reverse engineering the best LEGO Millennium Falcon
Back in 2015, when Masterbuilder Marshal Banana released the first photos of his magnificent Millennium Falcon design, I was completely stunned. This was the best design I had ever seen, and I had to build it.
I spent most of 2016 reverse engineering it in LDD, which took more than 300 hours. In meantime, I started buying second hand sets and rare bricks. In januari 2017, I ordered the remaining parts via Bricklink. This took a few weeks. In februari I started building.
The design contains more than 7500 parts, and more than 500 different bricktypes.
The original design is impossible to reproduce in LDD, because it has almost 100 'illegal' connections (stress on the bricks), at least according to LDD. So I have stubbed these with yellow bricks, just to make it possible.
The design is 100% Lego, no other components, no rubberbands, no wires.
The frame is completely made of technic bricks.
To join bricks back to back, I used the connectors of legacy hinge plates.
I have tried to reproduce the original design as accurately as possible, but exchanged some parts for parts that I already had in my collection. And, of course, I had to guess the inner construction, because there are no pictures of it.
During building, I reconsidered some constructions from my LDD, which I improved, to make it more sturdy.
I will post some work in progress pictures, now and then.
Ok, and I know that there are rumors about a next UCS Lego Millennium Falcon set. And I assume (and hope) that it will be great. But I will finish this build anyway. I started this project long before the rumors, and it will be awesome.
I also know that other people have reverse engineered it, and that is also awesome. But again, I started this project long before I saw any similar projects, and I am just following my own design.
Note that my building progress is more ahead than the photos currently posted. Also, this first image is an intermediate render of the LDD file, not the final bulld.
I hope that you will like it, and that it may bring some inpiration.
Enjoy!
Reverse engineering the best LEGO Millennium Falcon
Back in 2015, when Masterbuilder Marshal Banana released the first photos of his magnificent Millennium Falcon design, I was completely stunned. This was the best design I had ever seen, and I had to build it.
I spent most of 2016 reverse engineering it in LDD, which took more than 300 hours. In meantime, I started buying second hand sets and rare bricks. In januari 2017, I ordered the remaining parts via Bricklink. This took a few weeks. In februari I started building.
The design contains more than 7500 parts, and more than 500 different bricktypes.
The original design is impossible to reproduce in LDD, because it has almost 100 'illegal' connections (stress on the bricks), at least according to LDD. So I have stubbed these with yellow bricks, just to make it possible.
The design is 100% Lego, no other components, no rubberbands, no wires.
The frame is completely made of technic bricks.
To join bricks back to back, I used the connectors of legacy hinge plates.
I have tried to reproduce the original design as accurately as possible, but exchanged some parts for parts that I already had in my collection. And, of course, I had to guess the inner construction, because there are no pictures of it.
During building, I reconsidered some constructions from my LDD, which I improved, to make it more sturdy.
I will post some work in progress pictures, now and then.
Ok, and I know that there are rumors about a next UCS Lego Millennium Falcon set. And I assume (and hope) that it will be great. But I will finish this build anyway. I started this project long before the rumors, and it will be awesome.
I also know that other people have reverse engineered it, and that is also awesome. But again, I started this project long before I saw any similar projects, and I am just following my own design.
Note that my building progress is more ahead than the photos currently posted. Also, this first image is an intermediate render of the LDD file, not the final bulld.
I hope that you will like it, and that it may bring some inpiration.
Enjoy!