Falcon Progress for Nov/Oct (and Sept)

The last shipment arrived yesterday afternoon so I spent the evening/night anxiously waiting to go into work early and make the additions.

First, I finished the steps left over from the September order where I miscounted a critical part and could not finish. That left me with something that actually looks like the Millennium Falcon:

Progress through step 60, finally!

With that out of the way, I jumped into my main goal: building steps 61-67. Two hours later I'd finished up!

These are all bottom hull coverings and detail steps. The large triangles cover the bottom side of the mandibles, the smaller wedges attach just behind them to provide a little angling for the hull and the tube to the far right is the covering for the bottom half off the starboard access. The four assembles in the middle are detail parts that viable through the circular openings in the hull.

It was not all Skittle-Pooping-Unicorns though: it seems that every month I am destined to either miscount or just plain forget to order a part. This month is was the lowly 2x4 Light Gray Brick, about the most common part in the entire set. Oh well, I improved and have them slated for December's order.

Finally, here is the progress for the Millennium Falcon through step 67:

Progress through step 67!

A long time ago ... (since my last post)

I was pretty excited back in September at receiving two shipments that I thought would allow me to finish up through step 60. Step 60 is important because that is the point that the set goes from looking like a big blob of bricks to looking like Millennium Falcon:

Step 60: Outer Frame Done

Step 56: Blob of Bricks

Turns out that at some point that I miscounted a piece I needed for step 60. As in I had 30 fewer than I thought. 30?! Ug. I have no idea how I screwed up that badly.

"No problem" I thought, "I'll just pick up the missing part in October's order and wait until then to post the update."

It was a great idea, right up until the "Great Daycare Plague" of 2016 (official name, look it up) hit my house and wrecked the chances of me doing anything for a month. If I wasn't sick myself, I was tending to a sick wife and toddler.

Anyway, November rolled in and I decided to just combine Oct and Nov orders not realizing the effects on shipping the impending holidays would cause. Of the 3 orders I placed on Thanksgiving weekend, I have received 2, with promises by USPS that number 3 may arrive today.

Yup. 3 weeks. It is nearly time to make December's order I am still waiting for the last of Oct/Nov.

The good news is that the shipment I got yesterday contained the part I missed counted in September! If all goes well I will finally have pictures of a completed step 60 by lunch!