While I wait for my Millennium Falcon kit to arrive, I've decided to start building some more Metal Earth models, starting with this Imperial Star Destroyer.

Kit in Package

Sheets Unpackaged

Extent of Tools Needed


Will probably only take a few hours to do. Absolutely love building these.

FYI, this is also a test of uploading pictures into a forum from photo bucket after resizing. Let me know if they are too big please, I'd like to NOT annoy anyone ;)

--Impatience

Okay, I've completed the bottom section and stand. In all about 13 pieces and a bit of eye strain :) One odd thing about the instructions on this one is that the perimeter tabs are twist not fold even though they are on the outside. If I were to do it again, I'd probably ignore the instructions and do them as fold over, however since this is the bottom, it won't really be seen. (Can see it a little hanging down in the second photo, might bend them anyway so not as visible)




--Impatience

Of course now that they are twisted, they won't fold as cleanly... Ohh well :)

Little bit of an engine mishap, those tabs can be brittle and they both broke off. Rather than punt on the project and buy a new kit, I believe superglue will come to my rescue once the rest of the model is done. Second picture is the tower which came together pretty nicely.

Hint: The bigger rocket/engine pieces are the size of the tip of a pen, so using that to bend them around to get them at least mostly circular helped ALOT.

I'll admit, this one is harder than some of the others I've done due to the small size of most of the pieces. Nothing will ever be worse than the R2-D2 though, man, that one was brutal.





To give a little size reference, that second picture is a very zoomed in closeup with a standard sized ball point pen its resting on.

--Imp

We use coins here too, I was just using the pen as a way to stand up the piece, didn't even consider size reference in pictures until afterwards. Here are two photo's to give an idea of how small some of the constructions and pieces are.





Apologize for the blur. Enjoy!

--Impatience

Looks great.I have built a few of these and they are frustrating at times.My mars rover ended up as spare parts for my Falcon build!!

Hi Impatience,

That looks neat.

Very small, but neat.

I`ll have to send you a penny as I`ve no idea how big/small a quarter is.



If the size of the pen is as I think, then this is really miniature.

Good stuff, would like to see more.

Regards
delboy271155
(Derek)

Thought I would do a little search on here and see if anyone was making these.

Just had a week off and found the Star Wars X wing kit in a shop at the dockyard of all places. I never knew these existed but they are a great idea!

I have almost finished the x wing and have a t34 tank to build next. I have found them quite fiddly so far but the results are worth it.

The one thing I have really struggled with is creating cylinders.

This meant I messed up the engine tubes on the x wing before working out you can just wrap the sheets round a screw driver of the right diameter to get a nice curve.

Am already thinking of building the rest of the star wars / tank kits.

The star destroyer looks amazing!

Great job. I built this one also. Used a regular wooden pencil to form the engine cones. The dome on the bottom of the model I used an old leather wallet filled with paper and a marble to get the uniform dome shape. Yes, some of the parts are almost to small to see but I loved how it turned out. I have the Falcon and the X-wing still in the packages. Will try to post some pics of mine also. Fiddly... definitely but a fun project to take up a day with nothing else to do.

I've built a few of these kits during my lunch break at work. My favourite so for the the star wars AT-AT. The worse one i've built is the apollo lander, the instructions steps are badly ordered and i ended up snapping part of the main body at the joint and it generaly didn't fit together as well as the other kits.

I'm thinking of getting some of the transformers or Halo sets next.