Building the 8' Star Destroyer (superstructures done)

[eagle1]

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Your'e a SS machine Julien, I know that now for a fact, nearly every time I log in it's lets see what J's built today and voila lol!. You are truly an inspiration my friend!.
If you still need that vintage Yamato part PM me, you can have mine, no worries!.
Stu

 

[ralphee]

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Probably the second best use of the Leichter chassis bro :lol. I second the motion for archiving this thread too.

lee

 

[propologist]

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Heck I want to buy High res. images of it so I can frame it for my room. Good images of all the detail...Looks like daVinci has come back in France...

 

[Watson]

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My lord I am wiping drool off my stunned face.

You have raised the bar so high on this the rest of us mortals can only sit back and gape :eek

 

[AT-AT Luvah]

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Holy ****** - there are simply no words.

Unbelievable work, my man.

I can't wait to see more.

Hector

 

[MonsieurTox]

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Thank you for the support guys ! I appreciate it.

I built the small hangar :

Then I spray primer, I dont know if it's because of the cold weather but the gray tamiya primer is not as flat as it used to be, it looks like their white one now... I dont like the result because of the reflects it looks like the coat is heavy, fortunatly that's just an impression, should be nice once painted with the flat basecoat...

Yeah that's a nut. It is on the actual prop, actually the hangar ceiling sits on the armature tube and there is a bolt which goes through this tube. They had no other choice than drilling a hole in the ceiling.
You can see in the pic on the right the bolt (topside) which goes through the tube :

 

[propologist]

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WOW a bolt , I actually have ONE part for my 8' Destroyer....great work zen masters as always

 

[jawsmodels]

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Beautiful recreation of detail Julien. This is fantastic viewing.

 

[JBReplicas]

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I agree, I come back to this thread almost everyday to see what you've added, keep going!! :thumbsup

 

[Mike J.]

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Nice hangar.

I'm also one of those who checks this thread constantly :lol

Keep going


-Mike J.

 

[MonsieurTox]

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Thank you guys ! I'm glad you like the subject as I do !

I decided to start working on the main hangar bay. I had to recreate the supports for the I beams. While they were all scratchbuilt on the ILM model, I just built 10 masters because I ran out of half rods to make them :

The first batch of parts (sorry for the color, I had to tweak it quite a bit because it was white resin on white plexi... not a good idea ) :

Took me 5 hours to align them and glue them all... That's not perfect but that's at least as good as the original model if not better :

Ive also built the rear bulkhead and started to detail it... Because of the lack of good ref, those are the only parts I was able to ID :

Dry fit :

The I-beam are on the way but I dont expect them before 2-3 weeks...

Thanks for looking !

 

[ckwanwoo]

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Great~! Juilen:thumbsup

I already know how much effort and patience are needed to make hanger bay.
You would have at least 1.7times the effort than my work.
That is crazy work~~!:thumbsup

thanks Eric.

 

[propologist]

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wow....

 

[vaderdarth]

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Incredible Julien!!!!

 

[MonsieurTox]

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Thank you guys !

Eric, actually the most difficult part (except the reproduction of the 1/48 panther chassis) is to ID the correct parts because the lack of reference

Today Ive been working on the crane :

It's not accurate to what it was for TESB, it was modified later. The pinches of the crane were symetrical (a bit like the ANH one) but it was modified at some point for ROTJ (I havent checked the movie yet) or, my best guess, for the reshot of the opening of ANH (IMAX version, they modified the TESB ISD to look like the ANH one, they even added some flaps on the engine bells).

 

[eagle1]

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Stunning bro, I think this will be even better than ILM's miniature with all the effort your'e putting into her.
Stu:love

 

[Beechy McFly]

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This is absolutely awe - inspiring.. One of my favourite pieces around..

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

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Astonishing...

 

[darth_daniel]

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I find it incredible how well aligned all those tiny pieces are... Just had to align some small styrene pieces and damn it is hard to get it right, your work looks perfect in this regard (and any other...)!

 

[Scratchy]

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Very nice work MT! Just looking at the crane, I come to realize that I've come close and missed some details with mine

Top Notch as always!:thumbsup