My try at building the 1/6 Scale Falcon Cockpit

My children bought me a 3D printer for Fathers Day and I put it to good use. I started to work on my 1/6 Scale Falcon Cockpit. I started to print off the captains chairs. However, in the process of doing the 1st one a tree fell on the power lines and killed my 1st print ( shown next to the that is finished)

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Had to do a lot of sanding to get rid of the spiderwebs. Here is a picture of it on the printer:

3d printed Falcon seat by Izzy Mel, on Flickr

Here is a quick vid of the printing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXdVPVYCuB8

One more of these to print off then it's he Nav Seats.

Uhm- awesome! Where can I get me one of these printers please?


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I saw this over on therpf too. I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Nice kids!

mattinglymint23 said:

Uhm- awesome! Where can I get me one of these printers please?


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They bought this CTC printer from eBay.

I got socks

And then there were two.
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I was away. Now I'm back and able to continue. I'm in the process of printing off the back seats. I'll post pics once I have them done.

I'm having a hell of a time trying to get the back Nav seats done. I think I'm going to have to do a combination of scratch build and 3d print.

You can see the detail on the prints are good on side only next to the scratch build post. I do like the Base for the seat and the hoods.

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However, I'm not to crazy about the back side of the prints. I one is usable because most of it will be hidden behind the seat. The other one will be trashed.

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Many thanks to SofaKing01 over at the RPF forum for helping me out. I'm back on track. I'll get back to the Nav chairs later. So I started on the center console. Not much but it's a start.

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Did some more fitting pieces for the center console and base to lift it up.

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way to bright:cool
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Well I went back to try to print off the Nav seat. My friend fixed the file and I used Simplify3D to slice it and print it in 3 different part. It looks pretty good. I have to sand, glue, and paint it but I think it will nice when it is done.

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Sorry for the bad pics. I took them late last night. I try and take some better ones this weekend.

Really great start,like the 3d printer. Cant wait to see more of your build.Your X-wing cockpit was fantastic!!!!

Did some more work on the center console. After getting all the panels and base right, I started to glue them in place. You notice I put screws in the side. Thats so I can go back in and add the center lights.

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Seat added

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More to follow....

So I started cutting the console greeblies out of 1mm styrene. It seems like console switches are a little bigger than the ones on the back panels. I also drew out the templates to cut out the nav viewer. Kind like Sofaking01 (over at the RPF forum) did with his 1:1 scale Falcon cockpit. Not sure I got the measurements right but it looks right. Then I cut out the center rails for the throttle. They all need to be painted still. but it's a start.

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I finally got the 2nd Nav chair to print. What a Pain in the butt. Turns out that it doesn't like to be printed at 10mm it prefers 20mm. This Friday I will do some more sanding and filling. Then it's prime and paint time for the seats.

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So I'm putting my 3D printer and SolidWorks to work. I'm having fun with the 3D software program. I printed off the Matte Box, Throttle panel and housing, and I even tried a rocker ( i didn't it would work but it did a pretty good job).

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starting to take shape

Natedog said:

starting to take shape

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Thanks Nate

I was able to print a Vickers at 1/6 scale. And with some help from Sofaking01 I have the right dimensions for the throttle housing.

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I was also able to make some rockers for the console:

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Looking great so far!

In the process of making the levers for the console. Tried printing them standing straight up but that was a mess. So, I printed them laying down. not as good as I wanted but they'll do.
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