The Millennium Falcon

Step By Step

Next I created my space ship, The Millennium Falcon. Despite its quite iconic shape, it was fairly straightforward to create. In the screenshots taken of my project I will explain how I came to make the model.

 

1.       Building the body of the ship was the most important part of this model, as all the other shapes attach themselves to it eventually. To do this I created a thin cylinder. At the back of the cylinder I had tried to make a space for the blue lights that go at the back of the spaceship, but after it reshaped my model completely I went back to the normal shape I had before.

 

 

2.       This next step is a little bit trickier. After creating the body, I then had to create the fins at the front of the ship. The thing about these fins was that there was no pre-set shape to create them like the body, so I had to create them myself. Using the Line Tool in shapes I created a sort of four sided triangle shape, before making it 3D. To make sure the other fin was exactly the same shape, I then ‘cloned’ the original shape and mirrored it to fit on the other side of the ship. It took some time to get it in perfectly, but by using the squares on drawing board I was able to put them both exactly in line with each other.

 

3.       The Cockpit and walkway was the next shape (or shapes) I created. This was fairly simple to make but painfully annoying to fit together. I used two different cylinders to create the walkway before adding a cone shape at the front of them for the cockpit. Getting them all to fit together and be exactly the same shape and size was a challenge, especially as I wanted them to look like they were just one shape. I feel I pulled this off quite well.

 

4.       Building the roof was probably the easiest part of creating the Falcon. All I had to do was create a Cone shape, which was the same width of the cylinder body, and make it incredibly thin. I had to make sure I didn’t make the top end too pointy as I planned to use that for later. At this stage I could really see my ship has taken shape. Now all I had to do was had a little bit of detail.

 

5.       One of these bits of detail I wanted to add was the satellite dish at the top of the ship. I felt this was a classic part of the ship and something I couldn’t miss out. I simpley created another sphere before flatening the shape to make a dish.

 

6.       The next part of my model was the turret at the top, which goes at the very point of the cone (roof) that I had created earlier. It was again very simple to do, just creating a box shape, rotating it into place, before adding a tube shape for the gun. I again cloned the gun a further 3 times to make sure they were all the same size. I then moved it into place inside the box to complete my turret.  

 

7.       There was only one more detail I wanted to add onto my ship. These were the lights at the front of the ship, which were fairly straightforward to make. First of all I created a sphere which I then shaped to be smaller and placed inside the fins. I then cloned this shape 3 times for the other lights. (See Below)

 

8.       So that is the Shape completed, next I will show how I ended up with the material for the ship.