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Gerald
12-05-12, 11:33 PM
Star Wars fans around the world are coming together on the internet to construct a real-life version of the film's Millennium Falcon spacecraft.

Conceived by a US fan in Nashville, Tennessee, the Full Scale Millennium Falcon Project aims to use the internet to crowd-source efforts to build the famous ship, which will be adorned with all the trimmings aside from a working engine.

With the help of an intricately designed 3D model created by college student Stinson Lenz, a project contributor in Alabama has already erected the console of the craft as well as one of its two laser guns.

Project founder Chris Lee has purchased an 88-acre (35-hectare) plot of land in Tennessee on which the ship will sit.

He intends to use the "fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy" as a place to hold workshops for students who wish to learn to weld, paint or build.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20536090

Cool :)



Note: 4 December 2012 Last updated at 14:37 GMT
Cybermat47
12-05-12, 11:55 PM
Awesome :)
Jimbuna
12-06-12, 02:41 AM
May the force be with him as well as the cash receipts.
Red October1984
12-06-12, 07:12 AM
You know what this means.....

We're sub fans. Therefore, we must build a full size sub. Maybe a U-boat or a bigger Fleet Boat. A nuke boat is too expensive.
Herr-Berbunch
12-06-12, 07:44 AM
So only the console and two (scaled) quad-guns built? :hmm2:

This may take some time, and you watch Disney come in now with a lawsuit.
GoldenRivet
12-06-12, 08:58 AM
You know what this means.....

We're sub fans. Therefore, we must build a full size sub. Maybe a U-boat or a bigger Fleet Boat. A nuke boat is too expensive.

With enough ongoing cooperation from the community I bet you could replicate a non functioning movie set quality type VII in a relatively short time
Skybird
12-06-12, 09:22 AM
A non-functional Millenium Falcon? Pah. Pathetic. Think big, do the real deal.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/secure-resources-and-funding-and-begin-construction-death-star-2016/wlfKzFkN

GERMAN: http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2012-12/online-petition-todesstern

Students of the Pennsylvania University have calculated that you would need 1,080,000,000,000,000 tons of steel for that. With current rates of steel production on Earth, that would take 800,000 years.
Cybermat47
12-06-12, 05:11 PM
With enough ongoing cooperation from the community I bet you could replicate a non functioning movie set quality type VII in a relatively short time

Let's do it in the Australian outback! :D:):D
Betonov
12-06-12, 05:16 PM
I got my tools ready :D
Red October1984
12-06-12, 05:31 PM
Let's do this!!!

There was a link to u-boat blueprints on U-boot HAHD forums a while back...

:ping:
AVGWarhawk
12-06-12, 06:17 PM
What is the point? Cool non the less.
Jimbuna
12-06-12, 06:23 PM
What is the point? Cool non the less.

Agreed :yep:
Cybermat47
12-06-12, 06:23 PM
What is the point?

If you're referring to our plan to build a U-boat in the outback, it's so that Neal has somewhere pretty to put his servers. And he can look dingoes.
Madox58
12-06-12, 06:27 PM
You know what this means.....

We're sub fans. Therefore, we must build a full size sub. Maybe a U-boat or a bigger Fleet Boat. A nuke boat is too expensive.


I had plans to build a shed out back that looks like a type VII running with decks a wash a few years ago.

The idea is to have the Hull as a deck and the Turm as the shed part.
BBQ's would be killer on something like that.
:haha:
Jimbuna
12-06-12, 06:35 PM
I had plans to build a shed out back that looks like a type VII running with decks a wash a few years ago.

The idea is to have the Hull as a deck and the Turm as the shed part.
BBQ's would be killer on something like that.
:haha:

Still awaiting the invites :sunny:
AVGWarhawk
12-06-12, 09:19 PM
If you're referring to our plan to build a U-boat in the outback, it's so that Neal has somewhere pretty to put his servers. And he can look dingoes.

Not the sub. The sub could be constructed and made to work like a sub. The Falcon not so much. It is one of those deals where after completion everyone steps back looking at it as they state, "Now what?"
TarJak
12-07-12, 08:50 AM
I had plans to build a shed out back that looks like a type VII running with decks a wash a few years ago.

The idea is to have the Hull as a deck and the Turm as the shed part.
BBQ's would be killer on something like that.
:haha:

The twin 20mm firelighters would be a blast.:D Where do you put the ice for the beer?