Millennium Falcon Christmas Tree Topper with Glowing Engines

This is a remix of Fillienum Malcon by Gareth42 to make a Millennium Falcon Christmas Tree Topper with an EL wire light up engine.

I used OnShape and Meshmixer to design the parts I needed to add and subtract to the existing ones.

The tree topper cone had holes to add zip ties to hold it more securely to the tree top.

I printed with 10% infill, 2 walls, 0.2mm layer height and no supports in Black PLA.

I then spray painted it white and added some weathering with black and brown acrylic paint. I then went over with some of my kids' red, orange and blue markers for some extra pop.

I used this Ice Blue EL wire I found on AliExpress for a few dollars.

Assembly

1. Insert EL wire from inside the back half through the holes, then run it to the other side, loop it around and go back. I ended up doing 3 lines of EL wire in the engine.

2. Using the extra EL wire, I slid it up into the cockpit using the hole I added, then made a tight little bundle and stuck it in there. This is completely unnecessary as you can't see it at all.

3. Glue the 2 halves together using the alignment pins and put it on the stand. After a few layers of paint, it has a strong friction fit on the stand, so I didn't bother gluing it so I can add it to a different display stand after Christmas.

4. I repurposed a bit of stuffing that fell out of one of my daughter's stuffed toys, rolled it into a cigar shape, then glued it on to diffuse the light a bit.