Bandai Star Wars Death Star II
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27 28 April 2023, 10:40
Stephen LesleyYou are correct Neuling! Now where did I put that football stadium?? 🙂 Just out of curiosity I worked out that a 1/35 scale Death Star would be 4.5 km wide! I can just imagine myself saying to my wife-"Oh no, darling, this won't take up much room at all" 🙂
29 April 2023, 08:18
NeulingOkay, you convinced me, scale 1/72 will do .......... you done a great job here Stephen!
29 April 2023, 08:29
Dora-13This looks absolutely fabulous!
The following has nothing to do with your build, but as there was mention of various scales in the comments, here's my share:
About nine months ago, I did a little research for another site I frequent. Maybe it has changed in the meantime, but back then, Jedipedia said that Death Star 2 was 900 kilometers in diameter. But then, a kit in 1/2,700,000 should be about 33 centimeters in diameter. This kit here is a bit smaller than a tennis ball, about 7 centimeters.
Wikipedia agrees that Death Star 2 had 900km diameter, and explicitly says that earlier references quoted the same diameter as the first Death Star, which was 160km.
Wookieepedia on the third hand says that both Death Stars were of the same size, which would be 160km.
The size of this kit, coupled with Bandai's scale quote, suggests that Bandai based it on the (according to Wikipedia, earlier) assumption that the second Death Star was as big as the first.
I don't know from where these three encyclopediae got their data, and if there actually are any references anywhere which would reliably tell us the true sizes of those fictional spacecraft.
The quoted scale 1/2.700.000 would be correct if the second Death Star was the same size as the first. Or if it was a model of Death Star 1 during the build phase...
However, if Death Star 2 was actually 900km in diameter, and this kit was a scale model of it, the proper scale should be around 1/13,000,000 lol
19 October, 23:19
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Bandai snap kit of the Star Wars Death Star II.
