Half scale or one third scale star wars ships.....

jamesrgiant

Active Member

• May 17, 2013

• #1

In a week I'll be on vacation and will have some time to work on a build or two. My question is are there any members here (or have pictures of some) who have built a large scale ship; from star wars or really any series? I got some good quality wood from someone and have been batting the idea around of maybe an X-wing fighter that my 2 year old could fit into but nothing much bigger than that. If anyone has done one of these before and has pics, advise, or both please kindly post to this thread. Thanks!

 

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Heath Norton

New Member

• May 17, 2013

• #2

I was toying with this same idea the other day and did some Google searching. I saw this, . It's not high quality, but depending on how quickly you are looking to get it done...

I was thinking you could make the tie fighter ball cockpit out of fiberglass pretty easily using a 36" beach ball as a base.

Good luck. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Heath

 

jamesrgiant

Active Member

• May 17, 2013

• #3

Good luck to you also thanks! I was going to use mostly wood but fiberglass would make certain things easier. For certain reasons the tie fighter is last on my list next to the x-wing or at-st. Thanks for the pic... the cockpit is how I would've imagined it! Being in flat sections and not round. That actually looks pretty damn good!!

 

jedimaster

Sr Member

• May 17, 2013

• #4

Google custom Star Wars beds. May give you some idea.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=custom+star+wars+beds&client=safari&hl=en-gb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=GqyWUbOTHOuOiAfcu4CwCQ&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=568&bih=269#biv=i%7C4%3Bd%7CW1PGzO0uXiYvlM%3A

 

jamesrgiant

Active Member

• May 17, 2013

• #5

Sweet! Thank you Jedimaster.

 

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Heath Norton

New Member

• May 17, 2013

• #6

jamesrgiant said:

Good luck to you also thanks! I was going to use mostly wood but fiberglass would make certain things easier. For certain reasons the tie fighter is last on my list next to the x-wing or at-st. Thanks for the pic... the cockpit is how I would've imagined it! Being in flat sections and not round. That actually looks pretty damn good!!

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The tie fighter would probably be the hardest of those to do. I saw this x-wing online and I thought the design might work for you. It's metal, but seems easy enough to duplicate in wood.

Panoramio - Photos by gscoulson > playground

Heath

 

jamesrgiant

Active Member

• May 17, 2013

• #7

Thanks for that Heath! How they did that beauty in metal is beyond me. But yeah I'm keeping it simple with wood.