ANH Death Star Turret Builder's Guide

[moffeaton]

Man, sometimes it all comes together! Little things.... like trench cut outs.



More here:
https://www.facebook.com/roboterkampf/media_set?set=a.10154651808993156.1073741952.674213155&

And now I can timelapse via GoPro5!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm4LD_19_AE

 

[Vacformedhero]

It's a real monster , nice

 

[moffeaton]

I'm doing timelapse videos on this over on FB!

https://www.facebook.com/roboterkampf/videos/10155087913183156/

 

[t2sides]

Absolutely STUNNING!! Can't wait to see how big your trench is gonna be!

 

[moffeaton]

Thanks to Craig Underwood's insane eagle eye last year, this is the very first time the correct parts have come together in a Turret replica! Of course, I added a bunch of era-appropriate nonsense to the inside of the Fruehauf tire holder, which you don't see unless you look inside the hollow. Which I would do, so I did it for me.



And this is what eight Feuehauf trailer's worth of ladders gets you - styrene bonded to styrene!

 

[Rats]

Nice! That looks great. That full turret is a monster!!

 

[Vinyl Guy]

Actually, the suggestion to revisit the kit, since it has a piece for the Sandcrawler, came from John C. I informed Craig of it and sent him a copy of the instructrions.

Dan

Thanks to Craig Underwood's insane eagle eye last year, this is the very first time the correct parts have come together in a Turret replica! Of course, I added a bunch of era-appropriate nonsense to the inside of the Fruehauf tire holder, which you don't see unless you look inside the hollow. Which I would do, so I did it for me.

 

[moffeaton]

Well, that's good to know, but Craig still was the one to ID the side bracing from an unpublished photograph shared by a mutual friend. So I was simply thanking the person who IDed something for me. I am glad you have expanded the back history of how the kit came onto people's radar in general though! Teamwork!

 

[KrokoHunter]

Thanks to Craig Underwood's insane eagle eye last year, this is the very first time the correct parts have come together in a Turret replica!...

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I think I figured the donor for that part

 

[Lee S]

Great!
I need a casting or two!

 

[KrokoHunter]

Yo Yo JO - HANdle that thumb with care Mr. Stringer ;p

 

[Lee S]

I gots two!

 

[moffeaton]

Lee, did you get these when Mike was making them?

https://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=251895&highlight=green+greeblies

 

[Scott Graham]

Mike never followed through with making those as far as I know. He offered to refund me for the red box pieces, but now it looks like I need those. Can you put it into production Mike? I'd really like the obscure pieces for my turret!

 

[Lee S]

I didn't, still need the 'tank/fender/not sure what it is' part too.

L

Lee, did you get these when Mike was making them?

https://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=251895&highlight=green+greeblies

 

[mslz22]

Yeah I have the molds for all of this stuff. I know I kind of dropped the ball on that set a bit, it was around the time that that "big" project wrapped up and my brain was mush from it.

Scott I sent your Y wing out yesterday but I still owe you the smaller set. I can't remember where we landed on that but I can still cast it up.