For the small lights, I drilled small holes and filled the top with a small cylinder of transparent 3d printing. Fortunately, the dye worked perfectly.ДЇor illumination, I decided to go the simplest and easiest route вЂ“ using strings of Christmas lights secured with hot glue. Since I needed many of the squares tiles to be blue, I used fabric dyeВ and followed the instructions on the package with hope that theyвЂ™d turn out well. I made a custom order from DelvieвЂ™s PlasticsВ and got great customer service and a quick turnaround on the parts. The solution, 1/8вЂі thick #2447 acrylic laser cut into 1вЂіx1вЂі squares. With the previous playhouses I had built for my kids, I had just used square pieces of plastic or wood, but now I needed something that would both look crisp and also disperse light well. The white and blue illuminated buttons are the primary visual element on the dashboard. I know it sounds janky, but it worked, at least for a temporary solution. My final solution was to 3d print the lenses in a translucent white filament and then color in the front of the lenses with a marker. Particularly challenging early on were the multiple large lights. Taking your time to keep the lines straight is a pain, but it looks amazing when itвЂ™s done. Pinstriping is a tedious but simple process. IвЂ™ve added all the initial 3D printed components here for you to download. Initially, I used silicone and resin to duplicate a few parts, but for the most part, this ended up being a waste of time, and I eventually went back to printing each piece. With just the dashboard, there are dozens of components that required my attention and many many hours of printing on my beloved CR-10.

Particularly helpful at this point was the beautiful 360 degree viewВ of the Force Awakens era Millennium Falcon cockpit on the Star Wars website.ДonвЂ™t tell anyone, but designing in 3D is one of my favorite things to do, and for sure I had my work cut out for me. Next came the slow process of building out the many components seen in the Falcon. Scavenging our old broken Millennium Falcon playhouse of switches and wires, I started installing some of the switches in the area between the seats as well as beginning to apply the telltale pinstripe patterns.

Next, I spray painted each of the panels and then attached them to the frame using sheetrock screws. They wanted a Millennium Falcon, not a biplane, and I had a hard time convincing them that we were headed in the right direction. Once the parts were all cut out, I taped them all together with masking tape and then built an internal frame using 2вЂіx2вЂі boards.ДЄt this point, my kids were pretty confused. Since I donвЂ™t own a CNC, these had to be done the old fashioned way, measuring out each length and angle and then cutting them out of thin MDF board. From it, I was able to line up the top, front, and side views in my 3d modeling software, scale them to actual size, and then explode those pieces into the parts I needed to cut out. **Note that due to LLD's limited number of printed tiles and slopes some tiles look blank.We started by finding reference material online. Instructions have been produced using Blueprint and can be found here: Using Light Bluish Grey to replace the white bricks and tiles of the Solo origin story and the grill of the nose of the iconic ship, the cockpitВ resembles the OT that many have grown to love! To recognizeВ the Original Trilogy (OT) Story I have re-created the 75512 Solo a Star Wars Story Millennium Falcon cockpit. Millennium Falcon Cockpit 75512 OT MOD/Alternative build

Millennium falcon cockpit