Building The Death Star - PRODUCTION
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Amazing. All we need are some photos of a SS Y-Wing and some SS X-Wings in the foreground. 
PHArchivist
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Plugged away at this beast a bit more this week...
Added about 100 more lights and have pretty much exhausted my reference images for the light pattern.
Still need to figure out how to do small rectangle lights for the trench.
Added about 100 more lights and have pretty much exhausted my reference images for the light pattern.
Still need to figure out how to do small rectangle lights for the trench.
PHArchivist
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Absolutely - was remiss on my part not to contact you all earlier.
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I'll post pics in the next day or two...
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And a few more...
PHArchivist
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Go ahead, keep rubbing it in...
Dan
Getting darn close to running aground on this...
Have exhausted all my light pattern reference, with the area to the right of the dish incomplete.
Still have trench lights to do, and the center disc on the dish STILL bugs me (flat, versus concave - and against the larger dish, creates the illusion of actually being convex).
I may take a quick and simple casting of the center disc, using brush-on latex for the mold. I'd then try warming the resin cast to test to see if I can press it into a concave form.
If that is successful, then next would be considering tearing out the current disc (second, actually), and adding the cast.
You know that Center disk issue you have... Its kind of begging for a 3D print... kind of a simple shape - take a few measurements and draw it up. I bet that if you're 3D modeling ignorant like myself there are a few around here that would do it for you gratis .. well bragging rights that they "finished" your dish .
Jedi Dade
.. well bragging rights that they "finished" your dish .Jedi Dade
You know that Center disk issue you have... Its kind of begging for a 3D print... kind of a simple shape - take a few measurements and draw it up. I bet that if you're 3D modeling ignorant like myself there are a few around here that would do it for you gratis
Jedi Dade
Yeah, you know, I uploaded the dish portion of my digital Death Star model for someone who is building a physical model from a standard 12-inch globe:
Death Star dish by 3DImpact on Shapeways
I do a lot of this kind of modeling in modo and would be happy to help...
Dan
PHArchivist
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You know that Center disk issue you have... Its kind of begging for a 3D print... kind of a simple shape - take a few measurements and draw it up. I bet that if you're 3D modeling ignorant like myself there are a few around here that would do it for you gratis
Jedi Dade
Not a bad idea, JD...
Why scaled to 11"??? Seems like the standard 6" Hemispheres would be the goto for that kind of model... Let me put it this way - if it were scaled for a 12" dome I'd have bought one when I visited your shapeways page
.Jedi Dade
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