Studio Scale Imperial Star Destroyer

[Baseline 30]

I am very pleased to be given the opportunity to publicly reveal our current project. We have been commissioned to produce a studio scale Imperial Star Destroyer to coincide with the upcoming release of Rogue One which is scheduled for release this coming December.

Our Patrons wish to, at least for the time being, remain anonymous however they have graciously given us permission to reveal publicly our project. We wanted to wait until we reached an important milestone that was far enough along to demonstrate the size and scope of this project.

This is a mixed media project using both our Ultimaker 2+ Extended and our X-Carve with J-Tech Photonics 3.8W laser.

We decided at the outset to tackle perhaps the most difficult section first the drive section and so far we are very pleased with the results we are getting from our process.

Edited July 21, 2016 by Guest

[Dim3nsioneer 557]

Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to build an ISD is insignificant next to the power of this forum.

Thanks for sharing those pics!

Edited July 22, 2016 by Guest

[nallath 1,117]

Holyshit that is friggin awesome.

[SandervG 1,519]

Wow, will definitely be keeping an eye out for the progress. Will you share it here?

[LePaul 314]

That puts my in progress BB-8 to shame

[Baseline 30]

Greetings,

Just a quick update with some progress on the project, we made a temporary stand to hold the drive section until it is ready to be married to the main hull section.

We have been working on ventral sections of the ship which includes the two landing bays and the reactor dome section seen here.

We have also completed the iconic head section seen in the following pics.

We will continue to show the progress on our project here as to the availability of the files used to create it I can not say for certain if we would release them or not.

Edited August 9, 2016 by Guest

[Dim3nsioneer 557]

There would certainly be people here who would print them...!

 

Impressive. Most impressive.

[LePaul 314]

[Vader choke] you will release the plans immediately

Those last few photos with all the antennas, were those done on the Ultimaker too?

[Baseline 30]

Greetings,

Indeed everything we have shown has been printed on our 2+ Extended using a 4mm nozzle and mostly default settings in Cura. Those support columns are about 1mm in diameter, we discovered the limits of printing an unsupported column using a 4mm nozzle. Although it is not apparent from the pics these columns have some quality issues and are in the process of being replaced with 1mm thin walled brass tubing.  That being said they are very close to being good enough.

{Emperors Voice] "Everything is proceeding as I have forseen".

Edited August 10, 2016 by Guest

[DidierKlein 729]

Wow this is really awesome great work guys!

So what's the total size of this thing going to be?

[Baseline 30]

Hi Guys,

We appreciate all the kind comments and support very much.

The overall length should end up around 231 cm.

[DidierKlein 729]

Wow that's big must be really fun and challenging to do something like this

[flowalistik 181]

Hi Guys,

We appreciate all the kind comments and support very much.

The overall length should end up around 231 cm.

 

TWO METERS LONG?!?!?! May the force be with you if you want to lift that!

Any more info about weight, total printing time, etc?

[Dim3nsioneer 557]

Btw: What strange kind of scale is it? 1:693 ?

[neotko 1,417]

Btw: What strange kind of scale is it? 1:693 ?

 

'Imperial' scale? !

[danilius 118]

What a superb model. Seeing how much work has gone into it already at this stage, it has put me off building that Death Star I was going to make at 1:1 scale, and no tjust because the neighbours will complain either....

[geert_2 556]

Just make sure you never leave it sitting in the sun, in a hot car, or in hot studio spot-lights. The model will not time-warp, but it may dimension-warp.

(Don't ask me how I know...)

[SandervG 1,519]

Just make sure you never leave it sitting in the sun, in a hot car, or in hot studio spot-lights. The model will not time-warp, but it may dimension-warp.  

(Don't ask me how I know...)

 

I hope you didn't leave a 2 meter sized print in your hot car?

[geert_2 556]

 

Just make sure you never leave it sitting in the sun, in a hot car, or in hot studio spot-lights. The model will not time-warp, but it may dimension-warp.  

(Don't ask me how I know...)

 

I hope you didn't leave a 2 meter sized print in your hot car?

 

No, it was an experimental dental appliance, a sort of spoon or fork on which you can put silicone paste and then make an impression of the teeth. About 12cm long, 5 cm wide, and 3 to 6mm thick. But even that warped badly on a mild spring day, not even summer. And then it was in a silver (light reflecting) car, not even a black one...

Also a few clamps warped badly. Heat treating these parts in an oven helps a bit, but not enough.

So I would be *very* careful when transporting anything bigger, that took weeks or months to make.

[Baseline 30]

Greetings,

We start out the new year by updating the progress we have made to date. Hit a major milestone by completing the superstructure section.

We have also completed the hangers and detail between hull sections as well as the battery sections.

[Swissengineer 25]

Wowwww beautiful! Love the size of that thing!!! How much does it weight?

Are you going to do some post-processing?

[drayson 74]

Thats amazing... wow...

Guys, it´s obviouse... the force is strong with this one...

Cant think of the epical fight I might have with my commander when I tell her that I want to start printing something...

[Baseline 30]

We appreciate your kind comments and support. 

There will indeed be post processing and a full paint job and lighting kit out. I do not know how much it weighs currently but there are 9 - 1Kg empty spools and over a dozen partially empty spools so far.

I am most fortunate as my commander is 100% supportive of everything I do and finds this particular project fascinating.

[LePaul 314]

I hope you saw Rogue One where two of these ships collide! When you see all the debris, you'll appreciate all the work you have done!

[SandervG 1,519]

But don't go and reenact it