Death Star 10 cm model

darthvader073

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Hi guys,
few days ago I started with my new project- the Death Star model....but only 10 cm (4 inches) in diameter.
It all started a month ago when I bought 10 cm acrylic sphere, which I intended for a project like this in near future.

My plan is to make it look like something like this:

http://www.imageshost.eu/image/zb

Since I started, I haven't took the photos from the beginning, but I'll describe what I did.
First of all, I found dimensions of the DS studio model diameter and its dish (also on this forum, in the DS Studio Scale thread). Then I determined a diameter of my laser dish, marked it on a sphere and then made a hole for it. I also made a small hole on the bottom of a lower sphere for the cables.
After that I used fine sandpaper to sand it from the inside to diffuse light better.

http://www.imageshost.eu/image/ze
http://www.imageshost.eu/image/zk
http://www.imageshost.eu/image/zD

I made a dish (which is a bit than an inch in diameter) from hard paper and a thin wire for the details.
I hot-glued it on the sphere, but from the inside ofc. Spheres are not glued together yet.

http://www.imageshost.eu/image/zP
http://www.imageshost.eu/image/zo
http://www.imageshost.eu/image/zs
http://www.imageshost.eu/image/zy
http://www.imageshost.eu/image/zC


In the next few days I'm planning to install a light source and finish paintwork. Lights would be done by scratching paint off with a needle.
Now I would ask you for advice... For the scale that small, is it even worth (and possible) putting lights on the surface without damaging its look? I think it wouldn't look that good if those small holes for the lights were too noticeable during daylight...

Tell me what you think, any advice will be helpful :)



Sandrino
 
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Look at the size of that thing!
It's too small to be a space station!

Looks cool though, I've thought of doing one about two feet wide.
 
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