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Re: I finished my Star Destroyer!
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Fri, 15 Nov 2002 21:14:08 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Carl Billen writes:
> After 9 hours and 40 minutes (counting from the moment I opened the box) my
> Imperial Star Destroyer is finished! I didn't build it in one go, and I
> have to admit that I was glad that it was finished...
I just finished it as well. It took me two and a half evening (about 10
hours), but I cheated: my girlfriend built the RBR.
> Good things about the model:
> - It's a fantastic model!
> - It's huge!
> - It's really well designed.
> - It never gets boring when building; there is enough variation.
> - When you have finished it you are looking at it thinking "Did I really
> build that?"
Dito! It is by far the most impressive model I have ever seen/build!
> Minor bad things about the model:
> - This is the most physically painful model to build; my fingers still hurt
> from pressing all those plates together, and there really are A LOT of
> plates to press together... I tell you, after you have finished it you will
> have sore fingers!
Glad to hear I'm not the only one having this 'problem'. But it is worth the
pain :-)
> - The instruction booklet (228 pages in the A3 format) is not bound well
> enough together; this does allow it to stay open on each page, but when I
> had finished the model, my booklet had gotten loose from the cover... I
> fear that if I ever build the model again, I might just have some more loose
> pages in the booklet.
Same here. The cover is a heavier kind of paper and it doesn't bend as well
as the pages. But I think I can fix the loose cover with some Velpon glue.
> - You need a huge building table! I built it on my 3 by 7 foot dining room
> table, and I barely had the space to do it! The manual, when opened, takes
> up a lot of space; you then need enough space for the model to be placed,
> and then you still have the 3000+ pieces...
If you take a look at these pictures, you see that even a dining table isn't
large enough. This is the finished model, were was I to put all the bags of
sorted pieces?
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=28403
(deep link as teaser:
)http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Markassius/StarWars/photo0022.jpg
Sorry for the bad quallity: I realy need to buy a real digital
photocamera...but I blew my money on this large Lego model...
> - In the manual some of the grey pieces are printed very light, so you start
> looking for white pieces... When in doubt, go for the light grey pieces...
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> Other remarks:
> - It is the only model I know you have to disassemble in order to move it; I
> had a special table for it when I was finished, and I had to move it from my
> dining room table. But when it is assembled, it is very hard to move, so I
> had to remove the tower and the bridge from the model (these two pieces are
> not fixed on the model, so they're easy to remove) and then I could grab the
> interior structure and lift it towards my 'dedicated table'. The model
> weighs pretty heavy, so it isn't easy to move...
Nop, but the interior structure works well as a handle to lift it by.
> - If you are busy on the model a couple of hours in a row, you will make
> mistakes. When I was finished, I had 'the usual assortment of spare parts',
> but also 2 1x10 dark grey plates, 2 black technic pins, and two blue technic
> 1/2 pins left, as well as a 1x4 grey plate. I am pretty sure I must have
> missed them somewhere...
After I build the model, these pieces were left:
3 antenna's: 2 white-black and black-grey, 2 black technic friction pins,
three blue technic 1/2 pins, 1 1x1 white tile, 4 1x1 round plates: dark grey
and light grey and white and trans-orange, 1 T-shaped technic gadget to
connect airhoses together and 1 technic light grey nutt (the ones that have
been around for ever and fit over the technic axels - dunno the name)
I feel that almost all these pieces are spare parts for the RBR!
Carl, I think I know where those larger pieces should be in the model: page
98, step 20 has an incorrect view of the model. Not all pieces that are used
in this step are shown in the picture.
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> A little advice:
> - Always look under your instruction booklet when you are looking for
> something and can't find it immediately. I have been pulling my hairs out
> looking for a piece which had moved under the manual... If you have a
> really really big table, you won't have that trouble, but you'll see that
> the more space you have, the better.
And always ask your girlfriend to help you look. After staring at light grey
for several hours, you will overlook the most obvious places. I even had to
ask her to help find a 6x14 grey plate!
> - Try not to lose your sanity! After having finished the main structure and
> the bottom, it still seemed I had as many loose parts on my table as when I
> started; I just seemed that it would never get finished... I think I will
> need a definite non-Lego break ;-P
I think I don't need such a break. However, both my girlfriend as well as my
bank account seem convinced I need one :-(
> Conclusion:
> - A very fun and rewarding building experience
> - An excellent model!!
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> Have fun building your Star Destroyer!
>
> Carl, who hopes his fingers will stop hurting soon...
and Mark "and now to build an alternative model from this set...NOT" de Kock
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| Hey guys, Thanks for your report. Did you, or anyone else who has this model, take pictures at variousl stages of construction? I'd love to see things like the framework and the way the magnets hold on the panels, etc. Bruce (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| After 9 hours and 40 minutes (counting from the moment I opened the box) my Imperial Star Destroyer is finished! I didn't build it in one go, and I have to admit that I was glad that it was finished... Good things about the model: - It's a fantastic (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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