I finally finished my build of the 10179 UCS Millennium Falcon yesterday.  Such an Epic build!

 

I highly recommend it to anyone out there to give this thing a go at least once if you get the opportunity.

 

I have built plenty of large sets before including at least half a dozen UCS sets but nothing compared to this.  As I was building it I really got the sense that the designers went all out and no expense was spared in creating it.  All the little greebling parts were not skimped on at all and the rigid internal frame was superbly engineered to hold the large weight of the model.

 

It took me many many hours, perhaps 50+ working off an on over the last 6 weeks.  Much of the battle was trying to find pieces within such a huge starting pile.

 

Anyway, here's the finished result.  I might add some more build picks to my album at some stage as well.

 

Congrats! Though I came into this thread thinking something had just EOL-ed...

10188 Death Star has just retired.

 

Sigh, it will probably still be around on April 1st for me to actually make that joke. What the megablock are those rebels waiting for to blast that sucker into EOL?

Congrats, it looks amazing!

Great job on finishing the build. I have built one too. It took a very long time.