Hand sanded it (nearly) round until my fingers are raw.
But at least you got it done. YAY! *shakes pom poms*
Hand sanded it (nearly) round until my fingers are raw.
I love watching you folks take on gigantic projects like this. I have neither the time, patience, room or money to undertake something of this magnitude, but I sure don't mind living vicariously through you.
This Death Star looks to turn into a fantastic display piece. Too bad it's not allowed in the house. Not even hung from the ceiling? My wife wouldn't let me do it either if I was in your place.
I have neither the time, patience, room or money to undertake something of this magnitude...
This one for me has been a long time coming, and sort of represents a "beginning to an end" -- there are roughly about five crazy involved projects I've always wanted to do before I'm "done" with this hobbby (1:1 Indy, 1:1 Vader, 1:1 T-800, 1:1 R2, 1:1 Fett, Death Star), and I've accepted I won't do them all. Once these "holy grails" are complete, I'll likely slow down on the hobby if not back out entirely. Maybe.
This model absolutely does NOT lend itself to hanging from a ceiling, spousal approval or not. Mounting methods, running power to it, and overall weight all countermand this approach. Though a nice floor display would be cool.
Ehhhh! - Always with you - it can not be done... Hear you nothing that I say...
You "could" mount it any way you wanted as long as you plan for it before hand... that the thing about a sphere... Sphereoid... if you can mount if from one direction you can mount it form anywhere... with some planning during construction :thumbsup The locator points for the equator, trench and superlaser as well as the meridians are what you really need to build this bad boy - that and a lot of patience, forthought and perseverence - and of course several hundred dollars worth of acrylic hemispheres :lol
Just making an observation not saying what your doing is easy - just that its possible to do "other ways", if you wanted to display it differently.
Jedi Dade
Damn fine work man.
My question is how tall would you make the pieces if you were using a 24" sphere to start with?
I have a 24" sphere lying around I want to make into a Death Star.