Millennium Falcon 1:72 Bandai PG. Handmade interior, custom lights and sound

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 5:51 pm

I am making the Millennium Falcon 1:72 Bandai PG with handmade interior, custom lights and sound

I plan to make custom interior.
I am using this as blueprints

The floor

SMAddict66 · Post by **SMAddict66** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 6:55 pm

Ooooo am I looking forward to watching this

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Good luck with the build

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:27 pm

How cool is this awesome new ISM member?!!!...I will follow along as well

Post by **Tomcat64** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:07 pm

That's a great idea - really looking forward to seeing how you progress with this.

Stash · Post by **bfrd** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:08 pm

Very cool. I have one of these in the stash. Can you provide the files you used for the layout?

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:48 pm

bfrd wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:08 pm Very cool. I have one of these in the stash. Can you provide the files you used for the layout?

This plans https://i.pinimg.com/originals/11/70/a6 ... c37a7f.jpg

I've been looking for a long time and these are the best blueprints that I've found.

Stash · Post by **bfrd** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:52 pm

JoaquinGM wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:48 pm
bfrd wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:08 pm Very cool. I have one of these in the stash. Can you provide the files you used for the layout?
This plans https://i.pinimg.com/originals/11/70/a6 ... c37a7f.jpg

I've been looking for a long time and these are the best blueprints that I've found.

Thanks!

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:43 pm

Twokidsnosleep wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:27 pm How cool is this awesome new ISM member?!!!...I will follow along as well

hehe, not cool, just want to try new things.

First I tried to make the corridors, it is very difficult because it is a toroid.

I tried styrene to make the corridors but I could not fold it properly.

Then I changed to extruded polystyrene to sculpt the corridors.

Knife and Dremel.

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:01 pm

What are you considering for lights?
You can get some very small “smd” surface mount diodes that are tiny and pump out lots of light in different colours
I am sure you are a wiz with electronics already, I am just starting into them

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:19 pm

Twokidsnosleep wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:01 pm What are you considering for lights?
You can get some very small “smd” surface mount diodes that are tiny and pump out lots of light in different colours
I am sure you are a wiz with electronics already, I am just starting into them

I plan to use fiber optics and RGB leds controlled by a Arduino. I think that it's more power efficient and more easy to manage that individual leds.
Here is a youtube tutorial about fiber optics.

Timplastic · Post by **Timplastic** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 10:25 pm

This will be amazing too see come together

fly1ngdutchm4n · Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 11:03 pm

That is going to be a epic build!
Looking forward to this!

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Tue Oct 09, 2018 7:31 pm

The main walls done.

Check that I can close the model

Firts tests with RGB Leds
For the engine I plan to use a RGB strip. WS2812 strip 5050rgb chip

I can change the colors of RGB Leds from blue to white
From Blue

to White

Individual RGB leds also works.

The individual leds are identical to the strip ones.
These individual leds are for the fiber optics.

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:02 pm

Some corridor paint.

Not great, but looks enough good.

Try to replicate the tubes and cables.

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:06 pm

This is going to be great
I see you know what you are doing with electronics...breadboard and resistors and such.
I wish I had more time for doing more builds with LED's as they are so versatile now.
I will shut up and watch now

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:39 pm

Twokidsnosleep wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:06 pm This is going to be great
I see you know what you are doing with electronics...breadboard and resistors and such.
I wish I had more time for doing more builds with LED's as they are so versatile now.
I will shut up and watch now

All electronic that I know, I learned in youtube. It's very basic and there is a lot of videos about leds and Arduino.

All your comments are welcome, I post to share, comment, discuss with all of you.

kiwigav · Post by **kiwigav** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 10:24 pm

Nice Detailing Mate

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Sat Oct 13, 2018 11:52 am

Han solo bed

shortCummins · Post by **shortCummins** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 1:44 pm

looks really good so far

rgds
John(shortCummins)

Post by **Tomcat64** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:02 pm

Great work so far - really enjoying watching this come together.

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:50 pm

Thanks for the cheering.

The Making of: The engine

This is a reference picture

First attempt: Fail. The heat drestroy the fiber.

I want to use fiber optics to make the pipes glow.
Second attempt: Good

A little of styrene and aluminium wire.

Also I finished the crew room. Need to paint it.

I Added 2 leds to make the engine bright

Looks good

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Tue Oct 16, 2018 4:08 pm

Ok that's pretty cool
Really enjoying this

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:52 pm

Testing the warning red lights

You can see the Arduino board (horizontal) and the bluetooth board (vertical)
The RGB led inside the black rubber tube and the fibers optics.

For the RGB led: 3 wires (-5, grnd, data) for input, and 3 wires of output to connect the next led

and the result

With the RGB leds I can regulate the color and intensity. by example:

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Fri Oct 19, 2018 9:17 pm

Doors

I need 2 doors for the interiors

I am going to use Oyumaru to make copies of the cabin door.

To use Oyumary paste, you need to heat it with hot water.

The mold

I made 3 copies. One with styrene and two with milliput.
I will used the "milliput" ones, are better.

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:04 pm

Electronics: Sound and motor lights

First test: Fail

Once everything was wired and the system tested, I found several problems:

The speaker that I bought is very small 2.5cm and does not reproduce well the bass. This has an easy solution, I'm going to catch another bigger one.
The microprocessor does not have enough power to read and transmit the audio file from the SD card to the amplifier. So micro-cuts are heard and the audio quality is very low.
The LED strip interferes with the sound. The library of the LED strip uses microinruptions to send the data to the LEDs and this makes it interfere with the sound.

So I changed my strategy.

I used this mini DFPlayer module which is basically an MP3 player and combined SD card reader and does not even reach € 2 on Aliexpress.

In this way the microcontroller does not have to do the work of reading from the SD card and pass all the audio to the speaker, work that overloads it, but this module does it directly independently. The microcontroller will only tell you "play track 1" and the module takes care of everything.

Then the second test: Succeed!

This is the Fritzing schema of the board.

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 3:30 am

Ok WOW

Gary30 · Post by **Gary30** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:03 am

I LOVE this! More more more......

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 10:45 am

Gary30 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:03 am I LOVE this! More more more......

Twokidsnosleep wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 3:30 am Ok WOW

Thanks!

This is the easy part, now I come back to scratch building.

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:04 pm

I painted the floor and looks better.

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 4:04 pm

Ramp

I'm going to adapt the ramp of the kit to fits inside.

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 6:33 pm

Millennium Falcon couch

What a mess!!

Primer and fiber optics

Painted

Weathered with oils

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:29 pm

I heard that the SW models were built from other kit pieces.
This is clearly from a German tank.

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:17 pm

Control board

I used a F14 photoetch dashboard for the control board

I ordered some 3d printed models. 2 chairs

Guys, you can comment, critique, etc...

Kingdan · Post by **Kingdan** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:44 am

wow

Fridgy · Post by **Fridgy** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 5:01 am

I'm just watching in speechless admiration

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:54 am

Fridgy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 5:01 am I'm just watching in speechless admiration

@Kingdan @Fridgy
Thanks for comment, but I'm sure you find something to enhance, this helps me to improve.

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:57 pm

Pretty cool
Love seeing you put this together all out of your head and hands

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 2:19 pm

The Main room

I inserted the door that I duplicated the other day.

It's time to work with styrene again.

General overview of the room, it need a lot of work, but it start to look as must.

Comments, critiques and suggestions are welcome.

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 10:28 pm

The table

I drilled some holes 0.3 mm for 0.25mm fiber optics.

It was a nightmare to paint the checkboard.

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Mon Nov 05, 2018 7:54 pm

More electronics

I soldered all components in a board
The left to right: Arduino, MP3 player, Bluetooth communication.

This is my first time soldering a board.
I am not proud of this.

The second board was better.

This is the placement of all components inside the model.

Testing if all works.

I still have to synchronize the sound with the light, but now that I have everything on the boards, it is much easier.

Post by **Tomcat64** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 11:49 am

This is just awesome!

You realise we're expecting the holographic chess pieces as well don't you

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 11:56 am

Tomcat64 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 11:49 am This is just awesome!

You realise we're expecting the holographic chess pieces as well don't you

I've been thinking about this

, but I still do not have a solution.

Thanks for your words!

Stash · Post by **bfrd** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:13 pm

Very cool!

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Mon Nov 19, 2018 7:52 pm

Exterior Lights main test

I can control the group lights with the mobile.

I need to organize the cables better.

Critique and comments are welcome.

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:42 pm

Sync lights and sound

Main board

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Wed Dec 12, 2018 7:58 pm

More Update

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:56 pm

Love the chess table and seating.
Glad to see you are still plugging away at this

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:48 pm

Tazman3 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 3:27 pm I have really been enjoying this build, your ideas are spot on, and so I'm not even in your league as far as building expertise goes...but I would like to offer an idea for the hologram chess pieces...print them on clear acetate sheet, arrange them in different directions, and light from below...paint the top edge of each piece black, so the light doesn't bleed out. It might work, or maybe the idea will spawn another and a solution! Who knows! Just fabulous work...I just love this project.

Thanks for your comment, It's a good idea. I am not sure if I going to build the figures or how, but again thanks for your apportation.

JoaquinGM · Post by **JoaquinGM** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:50 pm

Twokidsnosleep wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:56 pm Love the chess table and seating.
Glad to see you are still plugging away at this

Thanks for your comments.

This project is burning me a bit

, it's too long. But I keep going, I need to finish this.

Post by **Tomcat64** » Fri Dec 14, 2018 2:59 pm

Missed the last couple of updates but that's looking superb

Just keep chipping away at it at your own pace - it's great!