Scratchbuilt 1/2222 Star Destroyer Avenger

Glockink

Siiiiiiiiick!

Monkeywiz

Loving watching the progress on this, I'd never have thought of using tha method to make domes, great job.

Scratchy

Monkeywiz & Glockink, Thanks for the kind words!

JP Modelworks

Nice work!! I love the lighting !!

Scratchy

Thanks JP, lighting really does make a model, doesn't it.

Darth Lakota

sweet ... looka amazing. nice work

Saz

Those fiber optics must be a real headache to set up! Though I love the picture where they are lit and coming out of the holes, looks like a missile storm.

Great work!

Smiling Demon

Yeah, what they said!!

CelticWarrior

Brilliant, I wish I could do this but I have to rely on buying my props.
I just wish Master Replicas had done one of these as people with a finished Star Destroyer rarely sell them.

Scratchy

it's possible to do this, try a small project and work your way up

thanks Smiling Demon!

actuall, no headache at all..... time cosumeing, yes!


Thanks Darth Lakota!

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

Leif_G

Fantastic Scratchy! What an incredible job. Glad to see a fellow modeller from BC.

If I can ask... what books are using for reference? I see one or two in some of the pictures. I'm guessing the ILM shots in the one book are from the ILM ESB 'Avenger' build.


The first SD build for ANH was done largely with a single sketch as reference. I collect production used ILM prints and just happen to own an ILM dyeline of the sketch that was used for the ANH Devastator build.

Leif

Scratchy

That's an awesome print!!!

The books that I'm using;

Star Wars Chronicals
Sculpting a Galaxy
Technical Journel
From Star Wars to Indianna Jones - The Best of the Lucasfilm Archives
Complete Cross Sections (for the heavy ordinance hanger)
Art of The Empire Strikes Back

Various images found on the Internet

Thanks for the kind words Leif

Scratchy

here's some updated images of the build, I've roughed in the Tower Bridge



I'll make the bridge removable, just for accessability to the F.O.

It just slides on.....



I'm happy on how snug this fits


Here's the tower sitting on the hull....


Starting to rough in the superstructure....






I'll have the Superstructure removable too, held to the hull with magnets (eventually)



That's where I'm at so far, thank you everybody for following along,

scratchy

ReplicantShadow

Outstanding!

YoPaulie

One more thread to follow... this is simply tremendous work!

Thank you for sharing!

Scratchy

Thanks for the kind words!

Scratchy

Here's the latest in the WIP images. I've done some wrk on the superstructure




I still have a ways to go, but I decided to take a break from it and start detailing the command tower. I did some scribing and I scratched up two rings for the shield domes. I used 1/2 tube and some .015 styrene.


Here they are glued in place....



On the eight foot Star Destroyer, these cavity wells aren't present.... only on the larger tower where the 32" Falcon was filmed. I thought it would be a nice little piece of "eye candy" if it was included on the build, eventually I'll have these illuminated with a strand of fiber optic with a lense at the end.


I made some boxes and glued them in, eventually I'll detail the insides.


Cut flush with a Razor Saw....


Shown at the same perspective as viewed in the movie.


Starting to detail the bottom.


A demonstration of scale with my hand.


Here's a little bit of detail that I was looking forward to scratch, the battleship deck that's glued to the bottom....



Where the build sits now.....


Thanks again for following along.

scratchy

MonsieurTox

Great job Jay ! Love the scratched Shinano deck !

Scratchy

Thanks Julien. I'll be spending a fair amount of time detailing the Tower. I plugged the ESB DVD into my computer, and the clarity of the cavity wells is quite good on the one side. I gonna try and have the command bridge finished, lighted and painted by the New Year.

the dark knight

wow! keep up the good work!

Scratchy

Thanks for the words of encouragement Dark Knight.

Here's another quick update of the detailing of the bottom of the command bridge.

IEDBOUNTYHUNTER

Looking great.

rahman

Wonderful Job...!

Is this a commission ?

Scratchy

thanks for the compliment IED Bounty Hunt

Rahman, thank you, as far as a commission, no, I'm building this for myself. It's something that I've always wanted since seeing the first movie in the theater, sure it's a different Star Destroyer in ANH, but given the choice, I went with the Avenger.

However, if the monetary offer reflects the amount of work that goes into a model, then I suppose that anything is for sale. In the time being, I'm not going to entertain any offers, I'm just going to concentrate on this build and take my time at it.

Thanks for following along everyone!

Scott Graham

WOW! That's some intense scratchbuilding. That's a tremendous amount of work your putting into it. This is going to be great!