So the star destroyer of 19,000,000 at the scale of 1:1,500,000 makes the scaled version come out at 12.666667 mm so i rounded it up to 13mm and made a little, well tiny, card model of the super star destroyer. So with some quick maths i worked out that it is at a scale of (roughly) 1 : 1,500,000 (it comes out to scale to the size of 106.666667 mm) So with a size of 160,000,000 mm for the death star and the length 19,000,000 mm for the star destroyer. In my research i found the size of the first death star to be loads of different sizes, but one number that kept coming up was 160 km in diameter.
The lego one handily had a little data plaque on it that gave a size of 19km long.
So i thought i would look for the biggest ship in the star wars films and i think it was the super star destroyer, the one they released the lego version of. I thought it would be cool to add some ships or something to give the death star some scale. If you had more shades of grey paint you could do this masking and spraying technique more times to give the death star more variance and depth, but alas I didn't have any more grey paint.ĭon't forget to keep doing test floats, 1) to make sure you are not going over the weight the magnet can handle and 2) just because its cool :) Then peel off the tape when your darker grey is dry. Once you have taped it over its time to spray it a slightly darker grey. I taped over some of the holes along side other holes and left some uncovered just to give the death star some variance.
I just alternated the thickness of the tapes i used and did different patterns in the tape to make the shell of the death star look like the movie. Once the light grey is dry its time to mask! Once you have sanded the burrs of you will need to give it a light coat of light grey to cover up the sanding.
Once all the holes have been drilled to your liking you will need to give the whole outside of the death star a sand to get the burrs from the drilling off the dome.
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