Hi everyone, I'm new here and this is my first post.

I know that I'm going slightly off topic and that some of you may frown on the subject, but I would love to share images of my latest and largest ever project.

THE DEATH STAR....

I was originally going to make a small playset for my kids Star Wars figures, but it kind of went a bit out of control.

It is mainly made of Mount Board. I used my kids Star Wars figures and I custom painted their Hasbro Legacy Millennium Falcon as the centre piece.

I had a huge amount of fun building,customising, setting up, photographing and editing and the kids are having a huge amount of fun playing with the set now that it's complete.

The best thing is, is that the whole thing folds flat and fits into an Art folder.

I hope you enjoy my work.















May the Force be with you...Always!

Work. Of. Art.

I love it - and I love the fact that you have passed on something of yours to your kids via your modelling skills.
Awesome man, awesome.

To be honest I want to play with it too....

Andy,

I love creating things that the kids will enjot playing with, it makes the art of creating something more rewarding for me and it stops them watching TV and gets them using their imagination.

I was a bit apprehensive in posting what is essentially a large childs toy, so thank you for your kind remarks.


Regards,
Julian

Hey Julian, I Love it...I my be a WWII nut, but I also appreciate some good artistic, creative, and imaginative art work! Your work put a smile on my face. And to me..That's a good thing!
Thank you! Keep doing what you love to do!!

Capt,

Every diorama I have seen here is meticulous, so your positive words are very heartening.

Thank you!

Flat out AWESOME!!! Star Wars will never fade away with works like this around. Very exciting scene. Do you have a 'before' shot of the Millinium Falcon for comparison?
Congrats on a Sci-Fi "10"
Rick

Exellent!

all model making is cool

double if it gets kids into the hobby!

post this on model geek too! they love scifi

Mark

great idea nice to get the kids involved and interested in modeling of anykind

Unfortunately, I didn't take any before shots but here is the amazon page where it is listed:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001B4PCS4/ref=s9_subs_c5_s1_p21_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1HYAEYMF9ZMT92J7NJY7&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463374953&pf_rd_i=468294

hahaha LOVE IT!

from one star wars fan to another love it! thanks for sharing Julian and may the force be with you. always. Ant (padawan_82)

I love it! I think its great to see a bit of Star Wars here in amungst all the WW2 tanks and watnot. And the fact you did it for the kids is even better. Nice work!

Awesome work, Julian!

However, you may find more of a dedicated audience for this kind of stuff over at Armorama's sister site "modelgeek".

Here's the link:

http://modelgeek.kitmaker.net

- Steve

Thanks everyone for your very positive comments. I promise I'll get a WW2 dio onto here at some point soon!

For the person who wanted a Tiger tank to feature here, joking aside, Star Wars is possibly the last and only epic Sci-fi film to have been be so heavily influenced by the events, ideology and imagery of WW2. Lucas used WW2 dogfight footage to convey how the space battle scenes would play out after his special effects team at ILM ran out of ideas. In the end his team litereally copied the WW2 shots frame for frame.

awesome.

I've seen this before over at the FSM forums, and I'm still impressed. Since you seem to have had no problems in creating these, I believe that you should go into business for yourself friend! Sell these on the market!

I love it! The crowd on www.starshipmodeller.net would love it too....

i am a huge star wars fan, i love it. do you have an pictures of it far back so you can see the whole thing in one screen. also, how big is it

Here is the set from afar -

i know how big the millenium falcon toy is, so all i can say is wow. that is huge