Building the 8' Star Destroyer (superstructures done)

[ckwanwoo]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Hey Julien,

I can't believe it is realised.:love

thanks Eric.

Thank you Adolfo !!

 

[Clerval]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Julien-
How's everything holding up structurally? I've been curious as to how the weight shifts are behaving, if there are any issues? I think it's still got to be a bit heavy toward the rear but balanced by the overall length now, yes? I don't think you had initially planned the support for the entire model... ???

 

[eagle1]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

You have the patience of a saint J, to place all those styrene chips!.
Just incredible work my friend, the latest pics are just jaw-dropping stuff!.
Stu

 

[Robert McLain]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

It's hard to come up with new words to describe this build. It's simply stunning!thumbsup:thumbsup

Robert

 

[krusinclone]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

I love it when you update us Julien. Such a great build!

 

[Rats]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

:eek (speechless...)

Well, almost... you must be nearly blind from all that small detail work! It's hard to tell if I'm looking at the Star Wars archives photos or your model :love

Incroyable Julien,

JT

 

[MonsieurTox]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Thank you guys !

Julien-
How's everything holding up structurally? I've been curious as to how the weight shifts are behaving, if there are any issues? I think it's still got to be a bit heavy toward the rear but balanced by the overall length now, yes? I don't think you had initially planned the support for the entire model... ???

I built a wooden frame, trying to mimic the original :

Unfortunatly I didnt have the pic above when I built my frame, that's why mine isnt 100% accurate and it has 4 holes instead of 3.

With this frame , the whole thing is strong as hell, and the superstructures frame will be screwed to the hull frame (you can see in the pic of the original model that there are 4 wooden blocks, the screws go through them).

Today I built the master for the guns.

I need to fill some seams lines, but I'm happy with what I ended up.

Each guns is made of 5 parts, this parts, 2 guns supports and the 2 guns (which are kitparts, not castings).

 

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Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Thank you guys !
Unfortunatly I didnt have the pic above when I built my frame, that's why mine isnt 100% accurate and it has 4 holes instead of 3.

You'll have to start over from scratch, I should think...:lol

New panels and gun pattern are looking really, really crisp, Julien. Better than the original, as usual!

 

[kbilly]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

You'll have to start over from scratch, I should think...:lol

I think they should change the original to match yours MT!

Looks incredible dude, great to see these new updates.

 

[MonsieurTox]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Lol thanks guys ! :lol I prefer KB's option

KB, looks at the parts of the turret... Found some parts from the new kit we found for the MF ! That's why Ive waited so long to build the master, I didnt know what were those parts !! :lol

 

[NAZGÛL]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Amazing... just amazing! Doesnt get better then this. :love

Will you try to capture eventual mistakes on the originals? I guess since they had so many things to do, there were a few. Or will you do it as perfect as possible?

 

[larrykidd]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Best thread ever..
This piece is just off the charts.
Larry

 

[MonsieurTox]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Thanks guys.

They built at least 3 (maybe 4) patterns for the brim trenches then cast them.

Here's the pattern #1 :

Ive also finished the crane :

 

[krusinclone]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Fantastic work!!

 

[Rick Deckard]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

It's just gorgeous Julien! :love

 

[vaderdarth]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Wow, incredible!!!

 

[MonsieurTox]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Thank you guys ! I cant wait to start the hull now !!

 

[Stormtrooper]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Absolutely amazing work Julien. I expect to see amazing work whenever I visit this thread, but evach time I am blown away by your attention-to-detail :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

Thank you guys ! I cant wait to start the hull now !!

*You* can't wait to start the hull??? How do you think the rest or us feel about it ?!?!?! :rolleyes

Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! :lol

Cheers,
John
john@manicminer.plus.com

 

[eagle1]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

WOW!, that crane is just amazing J, so intricate in the details.
How you assertained that they used a pattern for the brim trench sides is beyond me mate, but I guess you live & breathe SD at the mo dude!.

I too cannot wait to see you construct the hull J, oh to be there in person!.
You must feel looking at all your work so far mate, absolute joy in seeing this creation come to life, I know I would.
Awesome update Julien.
Stu

 

[MonsieurTox]

Re: Building the 8' Star Destroyer (portside primered, lots of pics)

Thank you guys, im glad you like !
Stu, this pattern is used at least 3 times (more kitparts added to the castings on the hero side). Each pattern is used more or less 3 times, and airbubbles dont like, those are castings ! They even used portion of y-wing castings ! Some portion of the trenches are 100% kitparts though. It's easy to see if thats a casting or not, the shelves of the castings are not flat but have an angle while the shelves of the portion detailled with kitparts are stock, flat, styrene strips. You know they even used castings on the 32" mf instead of real kitparts (im thinking to a gepard part used on the right mandible wall. They could have used an original kitpart but for some reason they didnt. This part casting is also used on the ISD superstructures.
For the trench castings, thats obvious they saved a lot of time, same apply to the turret !