That's no egg... that's a space station!

Phase Two...

More eggs!!
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Hmm... too small...
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Better!
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It needs a nose-job tho... Starting with a strip of 1.5x2mm styrene around the nose...
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Creative clamping...
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Building up the rim...
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More styrene stock... until we have some mass to sand into shape...
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And a lot (and I mean A LOT) of sanding to get it into shape...
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Filled some holes with CA-glue, and the seams as well...
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Can you see what it's going to be yet?
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Some square tubing as a base for the canopy...
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Front and rear...
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Side one and two, one side trimmed up...
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Time to do some framing...
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All framed up...
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And a hole for a loyal little Astromech...
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Tomorrow we make some wings for this thing. How many? An x-number of wings perchance..?

More sooooon!

Rob
 
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My kids would love these. Maybe if I start now I can have some finished for next Easter.
 
This is indeed quite impressive. The attention to detail is only surpassed by the sheer absurdity of egg-based space stations and fighter ships. I, for one, am waiting on eggshells for an update.

-K
 
I AM CRACKING UNDER THE PRESSURE!!

Well, not really...

First, I made a template for the wing so I had an idea of the size and angles and stuff...
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That gave me a sense of the size the engines should be. I started out by covering some tube with 1mm wide half-round strip of Evergreen. 8 strips in total, evenly spaced. Gotta love Evergreen...
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...and then cut the resulting ribbed tube into engine sections...
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I shaped the rear end and fitted a wider tube around the front end...
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Made them all the same size and gave the rear of the engines a ring. Engines love rings...
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Time to make some intakes. I started by closing off a bit of the larger size tube I already used on the other half of the engine.
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Excess cut off and the whole thing sanded until it was round...
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Cut to size, a hole drilled and reamed out so you get a nice intake shape. I attached it to the main body of the engine with a t-shaped bit of styrene.
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The sticky-out bits of the T cut off and sanded smooth...
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Repeat until cross-eyed and you have four engines. I greebled up the engines with some random panels too...
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Back to the wing. After I cut out four wings using the template I made a second, slightly smaller template to make panels for on top of the wings.
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I ended up with two tiny templates (numbered 1 and 2) and a spacer (marked X) to keep the space between the panels constant and a perfect fit for the engines. I marked the templates on some styrene and cut out enough panels to do the wings.
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Panels fixed to the wings...
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Laser cannons, from some stainless steel welding rod, half a ring of styrene tube...
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Result!
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Cannons fitted into some more tube glued to the wings...
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And wings fitted to the hull...
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And on to Phase Three...

More sooooon!

Rob
 
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Hey, hurry up and get this finished ... g-r-r-r-r-r-r!!! :angry Can't you tell I'm eggs-asparated?! :facepalm

Before I get hustled off the premises, that's looking great! :thumbsup
 
so next up you need a squadron of Imperial Egg Fighters that you can scramble (see what I did there) to chase that Egg-Wing outta there .....

This works even better in German: a T-EI Fighter (T-Egg fighter, pronounced like T.I.E.) group needs to go after that Eggs-Wing.

And where is Darth Vaders Advanced T.I.E. Eggs-1 ? :p
 
Phase Three...

What a surprise! Another egg! With a monocle!
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Center-line ring...
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It's the Ivory Snitch from that movie... what's it called again...
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Ah yes... "Luke Potter and the Prisoner of Alderaan"...

Man, I loved that movie... especially when Gandalf told Luke; "You're a wizard, Luke..." and then cut off his hand with a free-range Bat'leth...

More sooooon!

Rob
 
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