I thought it would be cool to add some ships or something to give the death star some scale.



So i thought i would look for the biggest ship in the star wars films and i think it was the super star destroyer, the one they released the lego version of. The lego one handily had a little data plaque on it that gave a size of 19km long.



In my research i found the size of the first death star to be loads of different sizes, but one number that kept coming up was 160 km in diameter.





So with a size of 160,000,000 mm for the death star and the length 19,000,000 mm for the star destroyer.



the globe i got was around 105 mm long. So with some quick maths i worked out that it is at a scale of (roughly) 1 : 1,500,000 (it comes out to scale to the size of 106.666667 mm)



so the star destroyer of 19,000,000 at the scale of 1:1,500,000 makes the scaled version come out at 12.666667 mm so i rounded it up to 13mm and made a little , well tiny, card model of the super star destroyer. i attached the star destroyer to the death star with a small length of fibre optic strand, i just glued it to the destroyer and drilled a small hole in the death star.



Make sure that the length isn't too long make sure it wont hit the upright of the magnet frame.





I also used some lengths of Fibre optic strands to make the laser firing, (i forgot to take a photo of this stage but you will see it in the final images.) i sanded the fibre optics lengths a little and then stained them with some green ink. i then glued them into the holes in the laser "eye" with the 8 strands converging onto the central one which extends longer than the rest.



Make sure that the laser isn't too long make sure it doesn't hit the magnet frame. (same as the star destroyer.







