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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!"
I know this post is kinda relevant and I am even glad to see it here but has anyone noticed that this is also just using /. to advertise the ebay auction to the target audience?
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Then again, well done for getting free ads on
If the point was not for the person who made it to enjoy it and keep it around, then what was the point? I know that if I spent that many hours on it *for fun* then I wouldn't be selling it on no ebay.
I donno, maybe the guy has bills to pay, maybe he didn't want it kicking aroundm, taking up space. But when these things are sold on ebay in the same article, it kind of kills the whole "coolness" mood for me. Its like they are pimping the auction to jack up the price. Anyone else feel the same?
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It really must have taken a lot of work to build it; he built this out of love I'm sure.
Too bad he didn't realize that the world is bigger than Swindon, Wiltshire UK, and fails to be willing to ship it. After 125,000 page views on this auction mostly from nowhere near him he just terribly screwed himself.
What a waste of free exposure!
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The thing just looks like a big balsa wood model, and it isn't very detailed. I am a model maker, and I feel the creator could have chunked a lot of plastic ship models for nurnies and greebles.. He also, could have chunked old star wars toys for control panels etc. It really just looks like a large DIY project, and not a playable toy. I was a kid not too long ago, and I wouldn't really wanna play with some big balsa wood, grey-pained thing. It also looks like it would also break too easily.
I mean I wouldn't crit, but when you put it out here, it's open season; not to mention this shouldn't have been on here anyway; it's like an advertisement.
I don't have a problem with it being an "ad" if you can really call it one. But it has nothing to do with building your own. There's no instructions. It's just that some dude built one. That's what the topic should have been: "Some dudbe built a Star Destroyer".
Who cares if it's an ad? It's still really cool to look at the pictures, regardless if it's for sale or not. Window shopping is cool.
Nope, this is not a scale sized model. It's the equivalent of the Millenium Falcon: lots of play areas, you can do nifty things, but you can't hold a dozen squadrons of TIE fighters in it.
Still, much better than the POS 'Star Destroyer' that Kenner sold.
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Mod me down, troll, offtopic, but is this really the right forum to be discussing this? There are no plans on how you can be "building your own star destroyer". They is no page on how he made it. When /. covers these sort of things there is usually lots of coverage. Plans, how-tos, "where to buy parts". This? Nope, just the ebay auction page.
Maybe it isn't disturbing enough, but I think this really belongs here. A forum to comment and post funny and disturbing ebay auctions.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Extensive study has shown that ebay itself IS the missing second step in the equation!
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2. ebay
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It fits!
What post? The one you're carrying inside your rusty innards!
Hmmm... Build destroyer. Post webpage. Get slashdotted. Get bandwidth bill. Faint.
OR
Build destroyer. Place on eBay. Get slashdotted/Cancel auction. Smirk.
You and your replies seem to be missing the point that it is not a model; it is a playset designed for small children like the one in the photograph. He also says that it is quite sturdy, and designed to not have small piece come off during use.
It is a labor of love that a caring father created for his children, not to impress the denizens of slashdot. I strongly doubt he had anything to do with this getting posted on the front page, and seeing as how he isn't willing to ship it he doesn't benefit much from it.
I think for an object made largely from wood and decals it looks quite good, and most eight year olds would be thrilled with it, not to mention the envy of their friends. Just because it isn't covered in molded plastic doesn't make it less impressive.
For someone who still plays with toys, you are rather crtical of how someone else spends their time. Don't take that the wrong way; I paint and convert tabletop figures all the time; I just don't project arbitrary standards inappropriately over the internet.
The only reason for aerodynamics is of course, for air to flow cleanly over the surface. In Vacuum, no flowing of air.
So if you have some sort of hypothetical shielding, it really would not matter too much if you had the eiffel tower sticking out of the top of your space ship. As long as it is braced well enough to handle all the g-force of acceleration and turning.
If you are one in a million, then there are six thousand people who are just like you.
Spacecraft will probbaly always tend towards the "junk box" style because it's cheap and easy to engineer. ;)
When they start making spacecraft for consumers, then there will probably be more sleeker looking spacecraft. And they won't all be silver or grey either!
I don't have the link, but somebody did have a Rebel Blockade runner on ebay that was built to scale (for the 4" figs) and it had to pulled around on a 35' tractor trailer - an Imperial Cruiser is over 10X larger than a Blockade Runner (150 meters long vs 1600 meters long) so this isn't even close.
LRJ