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Select build team members and supporters will be sporting these at DragonCon this year. At this point we don’t have any extras, but we may make them available in the future.
Re-usable plywood forms are done and ready to be put in place for the foundation footers for the workshop.
Some photos are here.
I spent a few hours taking measurements of a few key areas of a friend’s MR Falcon.
Scaling numbers will need to be adjusted based on these measurements, as well as the recent Star Wars Ultimate Blueprints. The blueprints are great in that I now have an “official” overall sizing reference.
The first two (of an eventual four) 40′ shipping containers were delivered yesterday.
More pics can be found in the Shipping Container Workshop gallery.
Planning on having a basement under each container stack with a floor-to-ceiling height of 8 feet. There will be concrete foundation footers poured, then 8 inch block walls built up for the containers to sit on. Heavy rebar will be tied into the footers, extend up through the block wall and be welded to the rails on the bottom of the first level of containers.
Pictures from the first two days of excavation for the concrete foundations for the shipping container workshop are here.
I’ve been on-site every day since Saturday the 22nd (except for Sunday) cutting the roads and working on clearing the main Falcon building site. There is so much to do.
So far I’ve cut a total of about half a mile of roads. Mostly access roads through the main valley and stream bed of the property from the front to about 2/3 of the way to the back line. I’ve cleared several smaller potential sites for the workshop and cabins. I also made it to the top of the tallest hill that sits 200 feet higher in elevation than the highway. The view from up there is incredible.
The pic above is of the main Falcon site so far. I’ve cleared about 1/3 of it at this point. For the Falcon site I am concentrating on doing the rough clearing and leveling this week. Afterwards I will need to spend several weeks with a chain saw to cut up and clear the felled trees. Then I will need to come back with another week-long rental of the dozer or maybe a track-hoe to finish the main site.
The land clearing image gallery is here.
The bulldozer is reserved for the week of Dec 22-28. I will be out on the land during that time cutting the roads and clearing the building sites for the Falcon and the workshop. The equipment rental company will be delivering hopefully the morning of the 22nd. Fingers crossed that it doesn’t rain like crazy between now and then. If it’s too muddy the dozer will be useless.
After I get the site cleared and the roads navigable I will lay out the lines for foundation excavating.
Soon after that we can have a ground-breaking event.
Been working on breaking the landing gear drawings down into the component parts. These should be fairly simple to construct.
The central tube will be about a 12″ diameter PVC pipe that will serve as the form for the reinforced concrete foundation pillars.
[UPDATE] After doing some more load calculation these tubes may need to be more like 18″ diameter, which will be slightly out of scale, but necessary.
