Each gallery contains an index page which allows you to jump to the images you want to look at. Most of the image pages contain a description of the image and construction info along with navigation controls to view the next/previous image. For a chronological walkthrough, start with the first image and step through each one in turn.

Imperator Construction photos and commentary.

Construction Gallery 1 - Screenshots of the 3D AutoCAD model. Late 2001- Early 2003.
Construction Gallery 2 - Return of the Aluminium. 23/4/2003.
Construction Gallery 3 - The Art of Making Brackets. 3-11/5/2003.
Construction Gallery 4 - Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me. 25/5/2003.
Construction Gallery 5 - The Art of Making Brackets Pt2. 1/6/2003.
Construction Gallery 6 - Rear Hull assembly. 8/6/2003.
Construction Gallery 7 - Internal Mountings. 15/6/2003.
Construction Gallery 8 - Internal Mountings Pt2. 22/6/2003.
Construction Gallery 9 - Magnets and Adjustable Brackets. 29/6/2003.
Construction Gallery 10 - Got Blowtorch? 6/7/2003.
Construction Gallery 11 - Fun uses for dice and voice recorders. 20/7/2003.
Construction Gallery 12 - External hull detail, prerequisites for priming. 27/7/2003.
Construction Gallery 13 - Cooling tests and initial wiring. 4/8/2003.
Construction Gallery 14 - Stealth wiring and the art of ATX. 10/8/2003.
Construction Gallery 15 - Sanding, grinding and lightsaber modding. 18/8/2003.
Construction Gallery 16 - Got Molten Metal? 24/8/2003.
Construction Gallery 17 - I own shares in an abrasive paper company. 7/9/2003.
Construction Gallery 18 - When in doubt go with what you know. 14/9/2003.
Construction Gallery 19 - Hull detail etching/scribing. 29/9/2003
Construction Gallery 20 - New toy!! :) More hull detail etching/scribing :(. 5/10/2003.
Construction Gallery 21 - IO Plate construction Pt1, more etching too. 19/10/2003.
Construction Gallery 22 - Lower Hull Detail and Display Stand Construction. 2/11/2003.
Construction Gallery 23 - Completion of the Display Stand. 9/11/2003.
Construction Gallery 24 - Completion of lower hull prior to priming. 30/11/2003.
Construction Gallery 25 - Rear Engines. 29/12/2003.
Construction Gallery 26 - It's Green???? 12/1/2004.
Construction Gallery 27 - Auxiliary Engines and hull details. 1/3/2004.
Construction Gallery 28 - Turrets, Radar Antenna and other stuff. 14/3/2004.
Construction Gallery 29 - The start of serious kitbashing. 30/5/2004.
Construction Gallery 30 - This is going to take forever. 6/7/2004.
Construction Gallery 31 - First Airbrushing attempt. 28/12/2004.
Construction Gallery 32 - Lower Hull Fibre Optics. 28/3/2005.
Construction Gallery 33 - Lower Hull Fibre Optics - Continued. 10/4/2005.
Construction Gallery 34 - Upper hull and Bridge Fibre Optics. 3/3/2006.
Construction Gallery 35 - Kitbashing upper hull sections. 22/8/2009.

Imperator Reference material - for those that want to build their own.

Reference Gallery 1 - Images and pictures of Star Destroyers I found on the web.
Reference Gallery 2 - Images I took at the Magic of Myth Exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum. The 2.59m Star Destroyer used in the Empire Strikes Back. Sydney, October 2002.

Straylight's Rhadamanthus Project

Construction Gallery 1 - The drawings and wire frame model.
Construction Gallery 2 - Fibreglassing and Gelcoating.
Construction Gallery 3 - Sanding and Spiky bits.
Construction Gallery 4 - Kitbashing.
Construction Gallery 5 - Painting and Fan ducting.
Construction Gallery 6 - Colour Painting and PC Parts.
Construction Gallery 7 - Hull Detailing.

 

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