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Build Your Own Imperial Star Destroyer

Posted by michael on from the let-the-wookie-win dept.

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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  1. No longer for sale. by bobobobo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well the auction was stopped early. Wonder why?

  2. The Imperator by OlaL · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

  3. Re:umm..what's he big deal?-Snap, crackle, and...o by Saeger · · Score: 5, Interesting
    '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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  4. Star Destroyer I Devastator by Darthscooby1001 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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