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!"

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No longer for sale.

[bobobobo]

Well the auction was stopped early. Wonder why?

Re:No longer for sale.

[bm_luethke]

Well, the person did say they were selling it because they couldn't take it with them when they moved. Maybe they either are not moving (heh, maybe they are in the tech industry and that dream job turned out to be less than expected) or found a way to take it with them. The person has a high enough feedback rating I would give the benefit of doubt if I were into such things. After all, he did say shipping was up to the purchaser so I doubt he knew a way to transport ti to wherever he was going.

I know that had I made it and under the circumstances described I would kill the auction if I had found a way to transport it at a reasonable cost.

The Imperator

[OlaL]

http://www.overclockers.com.au/%7Ebluesmurf/

Re:Think that is weird

[mattjb0010]

That's not weird. Now, an Erdös number of 5 for US$354, that's weird. I'd bid, but my Erdös number is already 5.

check out the counter on the page

[minus_273]

rarely does slashdot link to a page with alot of BW/ power AND a counter. heh you can refresh to see the slashdot effect in realtime.

Re:umm..what's he big deal?-Snap, crackle, and...o

[Saeger]

'Greebling' on supposedly futuristic spacecraft has always pissed me off because it's almost always overblown and only put there to make the object "busy looking" and for audiences used to WW2-battleships-in-space. It's almost as if the ships were built with irregular pieces of purposely discolored sheetmetal in a shipyard, and then pipes and other techy doodads tacked on later for style'n.

I'm a fan of the sleek ship designs that keep their junk on the inside where it belongs. Of course, it's harder to judge scale when you can't see the irregular pieces of purposely discolored sheetmetal put into place by human hands (ugh)... but it makes more sense that way.

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This one has a PC inside it!

[OneArmedMan]

if you click on this link you will find one that has a computer inside it.!

Re:Come on! - Watch my movie!

[Cirrocco]

Okay, if this guy can have his Ebay auction listed on /. then I can pimp my fan film.

The Ten Dollar Star Wars Fan Film

Yeah, it's huge and it's great quality. Suitable for VCD as the filename implies. Besides, I don't want to go through my entire life without having been /.'d at least once!

What's the movie about? We made a bet...a bad bet. We bet that we could make a Star Wars fan film for under $10. Watch the hilarious hi-jinks unfold as we do anything to get the shot! You won't believe the ending! With music from Alice in Chains, Iggy Pop, Jane's Addiction and more!

Includes trailer for possible upcoming project.

Download and enjoy! Burn it to VCD and give it to friends! Give it to enemies! Put it on Bit Torrent sites! And meet the stars at Wondercon at Moscone Center in San Francisco at the East Bay Star Wars Fan Club booth April 30-May 2.

Re:umm..what's he big deal?-Snap, crackle, and...o

[NormalVisual]

The first Star Destroyer model (Devastator) was about three feet in length. The second one (Avenger) built for "Empire" was about eight feet and *much* more detailed, and the Super Star Destroyer (Executor) for the same movie was about ten feet. Some really good photos of the Avenger studio model are available here, and show the sheer amount of effort that ILM put into building these behemoths. Of course, there are lots of other photos of all the studio models available elsewhere online.

Gads, I gotta get a life....

It says in the text of the auction

[Transient0]

that the model is not in scale with 4 inch toys. It is in scale (of some undisclosed ratio) with the on-screen version as far as external construction goes. The inside has been redesigned to be appropriate for use with the 4 inch toys, but a look at the picture will show how out of scale it is. Clearly an ISD has more than six or seven rooms.

As he says, a toy that was properly in scale to 4 inch toys would be the length of his street. Really, what the guy has done is the perfect compromise between accuracy to the movie and functionality as a toy. i applaud him.

Re:Very nice, but....

[Jugalator]

Vader grabbed Leia in an "Imperial Class Star Destroyer"

... although that designation has been debated. See also this quote from Warships of the Empire :

Imperator-class star destroyer.

"The common mile-long Imperial star destroyer. Imperator, the first ship in its class, was built at the KDY shipyards at Gyndine for use in the Corellian sector fleet early in the reign of Emperor Palpatine. [Is Gyndine in or near the Corellian sector?] By the time of Palpatine's fall these ships were ubiquitous galaxy-wide as the stock destroyer vessel of Imperial Navy's territorial fleets, numbering no less than several tens of thousands of ships.

These vessels were also colloquially known as "Impstars" or "Imperial star destroyers", particularly among the forces of the Rebel Alliance and New Republic. (Of course all star destroyer designs of the Imperial Navy were "Imperial", just as the rebel Admiral Ackbar commanded Calamarian cruisers which nonetheless were not "Calamarian-class" star cruisers!)"

The older, smaller versions were called "Victory Class Star Destroyers" and were only a half kilometer long.

True :-)

The "Super Class Star Destroyer" you see plunging into the second death star in ROTJ is Vader's Capital ship and is close to 5 kilometers in length.

I'm not sure there is such a thing -- either a "Super Star Destroyer" (from computer games I think) or Executor-class Star Destroyers / Command Ships, from Vader's Executor in ROTJ.

All this is further discussed here:
STAR WARS: Technical Commentaries

Thank god for that document, that shows someone else is more geeky than me!

Star Destroyer I Devastator

[Darthscooby1001]

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your kind words regarding my Star Destroyer. A subscriber was kind enough to send me the link to this site, which I had no idea existed never mind was discussing my ship. It did indeed take 3 years to build but only with a week here and a few days there. When I started I had no idea what I was going and no prior woodwork skills. I simply wanted to make the ship I yearned for when I was a child and looked at it how I believe a child would. As some of you have noticed I have ended the listing and have sold the ship privately. It has gone to a good home and I can rest assured it will be played with as a toy is meant to be. I would certainly not say a profit was made, apart from the many hours of labour, wood is not cheap to buy. I also gave the buyer many figures and ships to man the vessel with. During the last week or two I have been inundated with emails from Star Wars fans telling me of their admiration for the creation, I am just astounded. I did not expect in a millennia anything like the response I have received. I am not a carpenter or artist by trade, but a simple soldier in the British Army. I am posted very shortly to Germany and really do need to cut down some of my Star Wars possessions. My response to the critics is I have made something that has put a smile on a child's face - what have you done? For the rest of you, hang around another year or three because your inspiration has me planning my next project - A 4 inch scale Deathstar! That is scale so the figures fit in it, not 80 miles in diameter. DarthScooby1001