Star Destroyer - Day 3

October 22, 2005

Day 3

Today was a marathon session. I sat down around 1pm and pulled out all the little lego bags, and the frame section I built on Day 2. I kept at it until 7:30pm. While my back and knees aren't all that happy with having sat cross-legged on the floor for 6.5hrs, I got a lot done on the set. I started with a non-descript triangle and ended up with something that is definitely starting to resemble an Imperial Star Destroyer! Today's accomplishments:

• Building the second frame piece
• Doing all the detail sections along the edges of each frame
• Putting the two frames together
• Building the engines
• The first quarter of the exterior hull plating

The hardest part was the hull section since all the pieces are the same color and there are a ton of pieces in the set where they vary in size by ONE peg. The result was putting in the wrong pieces a bunch of times, realizing the mistake several steps later and having to tear a section apart and put it back together again with the correct piece. The next several days of work are probably going to be doing the remaining hull sections. It's the tedious part, but damn if the results aren't starting to look good!

I'm actually going through this much quicker than I expected. I bet I'll have it done in about a month now.

It's large enough now that I had to clear the floor of one of my larger closets so I had somewhere to store it that the cat couldn't get at. I'm going to have to figure out how I'm going to store/display the thing once I'm done. Thinking some sort of glass or plastic enclosure so my cat can't try and eat it (as she likes to do with LEGOs).

Floor Shot of the floor with the first frame finished	Side Detail Shot This is a shot of the detail pieces that go ALL along the sides of the frame sections	Both Frames Both frames are finished now. Laid side by side
Main Body Built The two frame sections are attached together. This is the main frame of the entire ship.	Frame Shot 2 A "down the nose" look at the two frame pieces together	Stand The Star Destroyer now has a stand to hold it up. This makes it a lot easier to store.
Stand 2 A nice side-angle shot of the frame on the stand.	Engines The three main engines and eight auxillary engines installed and ready to fire!	Hull Plating 1/4 Done! A look down on the ship with the bottom half of the hull plating in place
Hull Plating 2 An "underneath" shot of the plating. You can see pretty clearly where the docking bay is going to be.	Rear Shot This is a shot to show the hull that extends beneath the engines.