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Build Your Own Imperial Star Destroyer
tashanna writes "I got an e-mail from my brother with a link to this. Someone has built an Imperial Star Destroyer model from the original Star Wars movie that's appropriately-sized for the 4" action figures. The guy made it with an armory, bridge, cell bay, computer room, engineering (split over 2 levels), Darth Vader's chamber, conference room, troop rest room, medical bay and it measures 2 meters, by 1.5 meters, by 1 meter and is for sale on Ebay. There are interior photos on the eBay site. Ummm... WOW!"
Look at the bid history. It looks like he ended the listing early. And if that page were to be believed, the retractors have stated that they have been unable to get in touch with the seller.
And immediately thereafter, an "ad" for this gets posted on Slashdot? Makes you wonder you know...
Read the auction. He says he's moving abroad and can't take it with him.
Its not complete though. my estimation to allow for 4" figures would put the scale at about 1:25, in its entirety, it would be about 64 meters long. Maybe a bit smaller. Try building that :)
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It's very well done, but...
The maker apparently doesn't know much about Star Wars. He calls it a "scale" replica...considering a Star Destroyer is supposed to be 1.6 kilometers long, those little model people are what, 500 feet tall?
And the bridge section shouldn't be near as fat.
He even says that a Star Destroyer boasts "8 laser batteries" when it's a well known fact that it has 60 turbolaser cannons...not 8. If it had 8 laser cannons, two X-wings would outgun it, lol.
If he had just posted some pictures of it somewhere the server would have been slashdotted/farked to hell almost instantly. Behold the power of ebays servers!
Thanks to this auction thousands, if not millions of people will see his work that probably would have not otherwise. I have seen a link to this auction on several web sites I frequent so it is getting quite a bit of attention.
What post? The one you're carrying inside your rusty innards!
I am a 3D modeler/TD by trade, heh I guess that lingo isn't common geek speak, here is an article on 'greebling', or 'adding nurnies and greebles' to an object. It's basically the art of making up hi-tech looking crap. The original star destroyers were greebled with plastic navy ship parts and other crap. Interestingly enough, i think they were somewhere around the size of this guys toy; i may be wrong...
I'm sorry, but the anal retentive streak in me just wouldn't let this go. In order for a Star Destroyer to be built to the same scale as 4" action figures it would need to be over 75 meters long! Now *that* would be a freakin' lego project!
Okay, fine, I'll be editor for the day. (5 seconds of googling later...) Make your own Star Destroyer.
The sending of this message pretty much inconveniences everyone involved.
... it would need to be over 75 meters long!
That's exactly what I was thinking. To scale with the standard action figures would mean it'd be larger than you could possibly ship (pun intended) and the five-year-old would probably be able to fit *inside* one of the circular engines on the back. Now, the rooms inside based on the photos look almost to scale, but there should be like umpteen thousand rooms inside one SSD. Compare to the regular sized tie fighters that the figures fit in. You might be able to house ten fighters in that whole model..
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Maybe you should get a bit more anal about reading the article.
> Although not entirely screen accurate (it would have been the length of my street for that) the distinctive shape is unmistakable.
I believe somewhere in the description he does mention that it is out of scale (because if he were to make it completely in scale it would be as big as a city block) but most of the really 'cool' stuff is there.
I think you underestimate the amount of steel by a factor of 100 or more.
I was just looking at this thinking....there weren't a handful of rooms on these suckers, they were HUGE! They had huge launchbays that could hold shuttles and squads of tie fighters.
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