| | | | | A few comments, keep in mind, dimensions of the Millennium Falcon vary by as
much as 40% depending on what source to use. But if you scale it based on the
8 studs as the width of the cockpit you come up with number pretty close to
what Derek mentions below.
Regarding a six stud wide cockpit. That would work if you had a square cross
section, but the cockpit is supposed to be round. Thus you need a six stud
wide area the full sitting height of the minifig. That drives the width up to
8 studs in diameter.
Ben
> >
> > Length: 24" (77 studs)
> > Width: 17 1/4" (56 studs)
> > Cockpit width: 2 1/2" (8 studs)
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>
> After looking at the landspeeder, I'm convinced the cockpit could be done at 6
> studs (or maybe 6.25) width with a special piece. This would reduce the
> minimum width of a TLG model to 30 studs (35 would look much better), which
> should be doable for less than $100.
>
> -John Van
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| Ben Fleskes wrote in message ...
> A few comments, keep in mind, dimensions of the Millennium Falcon vary by as
> much as 40% depending on what source to use. But if you scale it based on the
> 8 studs as the width of the cockpit you come up with number pretty close to
> what Derek mentions below.
If it's correctly to scale. As Steve pointed out, a cockpit to overall size
ratio of 1:5 would be the minimum necessary without it looking ridiculous. I
doubt TLG would be as concerned about exact dimensions as Derek was. If they
can make a model look good enough to sell, they will.
>
> Regarding a six stud wide cockpit. That would work if you had a square cross
> section, but the cockpit is supposed to be round. Thus you need a six stud
> wide area the full sitting height of the minifig. That drives the width up to
> 8 studs in diameter.
Actually you need a 5 stud width at the butt level of the cockpit, 6.?? at the
arm level, and 4.5-5 stud width at the head level. Hopefully Chewie will be
taller than a normal minifig, so some extra clearance would be needed. I'll
play around in LDraw with a couple of minifigs and a cylindar and let you know
what I come up with.
-John Van
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | John VanZwieten wrote in message ...
>
> If it's correctly to scale. As Steve pointed out, a cockpit to overall size
> ratio of 1:5 would be the minimum necessary without it looking ridiculous. I
> doubt TLG would be as concerned about exact dimensions as Derek was. If they
> can make a model look good enough to sell, they will.
True, but I did measure their Y-Wing to see how far off it was from the
correct scale, and you know what? It was really close. Everything except
the cockpit was dead-on. Of course, the cockpit was a bit wrong, but I'll
be fixing that on the Y-Wing I have.
:Derek
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| On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:49:46 GMT, "Ben Fleskes" <benfleskes@msn.com> wrote:
> A few comments, keep in mind, dimensions of the Millennium Falcon vary by as
> much as 40% depending on what source to use. But if you scale it based on the
> 8 studs as the width of the cockpit you come up with number pretty close to
> what Derek mentions below.
>
> Regarding a six stud wide cockpit. That would work if you had a square cross
> section, but the cockpit is supposed to be round. Thus you need a six stud
> wide area the full sitting height of the minifig. That drives the width up to
> 8 studs in diameter.
You are correct, but that's assuming the cockpit tube is nearly circular.
If the tube was built to 'suggest' a circular cross-section, it could be
smaller than 8 studs across.
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This would be very cramped.
Other than a totally special piece, the easiest solution is to use the
octagonal corridor pieces (example at
<http://home.att.net/~partsref/images/2466.gif>) and create an 8-wide,
6-high tube.
This still leaves the problem of the cockpit canopy/nose. The TIE Fighter
porthole wouldn't cut it for this application. It would work, but it would
be ugly (ugly=not like the real thing).
Steve
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