The ones in the picture I found at Michaels. This will vary based on your design ( craft stores)ģ Decorative Wood dowels larger in diameter than the dowel sticks above. These can be pulled apart and used as dials in the control panelĪssorted wooden screw covers (craft stores)ģ, 7/8 inch diameter dowels approximately 20 inches each in length. Optional set of plastic chair caster wheels. these come in 8 ft lengths at about $.89 cents eachġ 4x8 ft sheet of 1/16 inch clear acrylicĤ heavy duty 14 inch metal drawer slides you can find them hereĢ, 48 inch wide rolls of sun protecting screen you can find here about $20 eachĤ Steel large diameter caster wheels or lawn mower wheels Now let's get started!Ħ-7 sheets of 1/2 inch sanded plywood. LOL! I've since added the solar screen, acrylic front widow and back door. To get the basic ship built including the flight desk in time for my son's 5th birthday party I had about 160 hours in it not including planning and thinking about it. I had no previous experience with a table saw, but my husband showed me how to set it up, wished me luck and said go for it! LOL! I'm happy to say that I still have all my fingers and I only had to redo one cut so I did not waste materials. I worked during the week when my son was at pre-school and my baby girl was napping or playing near me in her bouncy chair and on weekends when my husband could watch the kids. I'm a stay at home mom with, at the time, a four year old boy and a one year old baby girl. It's the type of project you can just keep tweaking adding cool stuff as time and budget permit. Maybe I will add solar panels and a remote control nerf turret. I also plan to add more interactive lights and panels inside as well as a nerf gun rack. I still have some aesthetic things I would like to do when the weather permits such as touch up painting adding some battle scarred patina, additional caulking, adding some electrical conduit and perhaps lights to the exhaust and rear door when it latches closed. So far everything is holding up very well in all the dampness. Usually that is one day out of the year, but we have had an unusually wet winter. I caulked all the seams and primed and painted it with external house paint to make it as waterproof as possible, but I cover it with a tarp when it rains. I added solar screen which appears black from the outside but absorbs a tremendous amount of heat and glare when experienced from the inside. ![]() My priority was how to keep it cool during the intense heat of summer. We live in Southern California so rain is really not my primary concern. I did not have very much money to spend and I knew that this would have to be constructed out of plywood. There is really nothing out there that could help with the structure. ![]() ![]() I searched everywhere on the internet and looked at every picture I could find on space ship play houses and the cockpit. Now that I had a flight simulation created, I needed to create the cockpit of the Millennial Falcon for the kids to sit in while viewing the video. You can view the Falcon's VR flight embedded above. Viewing this from within Google Cardboard only enhanced the experience. I took this video and with some inexpensive special effects and some video shot from the front car at Disney's Space Mountain, created a first person experience of taking off from our yard, jumping into hyperspace, outrunning and dodging the Star Destroyer and Tie-Fighters then hyper-spacing back home and landing safely where it took off. My husband flew our drown up from the back yard up to about 500 feet, then reversed the path and landed in the same spot. I had come up with an idea to create a Millennium Falcon Flight simulation VR experience. Please report to the following coordinates on such and such date for pilot and Jedi training." The hologram invites message was "that if you were receiving this message it is because we have identified that the Fore is strong within you and that the Rebel Alliance desperately needs your help. He wanted a Star Wars party, so I started planning this about four months in advance beginning with hologram invitations. This project originated out of a birthday party for my son who was about to turn five.
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