Death Star prototype

[mijob]

Please let me allow to announce my next project its the prototype of the Death Star.
This is the inner structure of the Death Star and I can use it in my future designs.
Below you see some images of the inner structure.


The diameter will be 30 cm and I will start with the frame work and the core of the SD. Then adding some "minor" details .
But you know me right now if I say minor. So lets start to design something.

 

[seraphim]

holy.....im starting to think ive stumbled into a scifi engineering group....i dont know how you lot do it

 

[mijob]

holy.....im starting to think ive stumbled into a scifi engineering group....i dont know how you lot do it

Hahaha, Just step by step and you will get there at the end. And maybe on the fly adding tons of details on your model.

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

That looks like it is going to be a rather interesting undertaking. I am looking forward to seeing how this will turn out.

 

[mijob]

That looks like it is going to be a rather interesting undertaking. I am looking forward to seeing how this will turn out.

Yes it would be indeed. I have done a lot of research before I start designing.

 

[zathros]

Wow!! We're off!! The research you've collected will make for a very unique model, the likes of this subject which I do not think have been done this way yet.

 

[mijob]

Thank you, Im still looking for more information on the inside I have to fill up a lot of space.

 

[Chuffy70]

"double your efforts!"

 

[mijob]

Haha Im waiting for the launch to mars.
Its almost my birthday so I have ask the haynes Death Star book as a pressent.

 

[mijob]

There is a lot going on to design this beast. I'm hopping from one side to the other and cant get a good focus. So I decided to work on the laser canon first. Now I have a design issue in the attached picture I have pointed with two red arrows some tubes. Any ideas / suggestions how to make these tubes from paper?

 

[seraphim]

There is a lot going on to design this beast. I'm hopping from one side to the other and cant get a good focus. So I decided to work on the laser canon first. Now I have a design issue in the attached picture I have pointed with two red arrows some tubes. Any ideas / suggestions how to make these tubes from paper?

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if you follow the tube round to the upper left, they look (to me) like + shapes or x shapes...if so couldnt you make either simple flat 'x's or make a 3d x version? (if you get my meaning) lol

 

[zathros]

You could try using short wide rings. By slipping edges into another, you could make the ring.

 

[mijob]

I think I will make a circle as a base layer and add three small strips on both sides That will give the "+" look.
The side strips will be a bit shorter then the middle one. Yes I can make that.

 

[seraphim]

I think I will make a circle as a base layer and add three small strips on both sides That will give the "+" look.
The side strips will be a bit shorter then the middle one. Yes I can make that.

heres a bad sketch ive just done of what i think the basics are, looking at the image

 

[seraphim]

heres a bad sketch ive just done of what i think the basics are, looking at the imageView attachment 214170

 

[mijob]

These sketches are not bad at all I can work with them. Thanks for your thoughts an time.

 

[seraphim]

These sketches are not bad at all I can work with them. Thanks for your thoughts an time.

lol not my best work but i thought that seeing the image in its 'parts' might help give an idea of basic shapes. Hope it helps

 

[mijob]

This what I made from it.

 

[seraphim]

This what I made from it.
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some more thoughts - it depends on how complex you wish to go, i think there is a happy medium in there to do the main details without too much issue following basic shapes, but im not the expert here lol

 

[mijob]

I will try to find a kiss proof solution. Maybe I will make something new or I gone use real wires.
Also some of the spheres are really small 10 mm I will try to make them out of paper but I think I will end up using something else.