This allowed me to see ahead what the shape would be before actually cutting and gluing the parts together. Each rib was hand cut and outlined on the blueprint. Styrene plastic was used and molecular bonding glue was used to put the parts together. as the book say it is smaller so there you have my scale.įirst I laid the keel with support ribs. The cruiser measures in slightly smaller that the I.S.D.

The ship is actually 33cm long (13 and a half inches) by 18cm wide (7 inches) by 8cm high (3 inches) and has a crew of 15000, carries 4 squadrons of fighters for a total of 48 fighters. Layouts of the actual shape drawn to 1:1 scale and used to lay down the keel and outline of the ship. This gave me and idea of the scale and actual size of the ship. As per the Star Wars The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels manual the Star Destroyer is 1600 meters long and the Mon Calamari M80 series cruisers are about 1200-1400 meters in length. The Republic was built roughly to scale with my AMT Imperial Star Destroyer.

Starship Modeler - Scratchbuilt Mon Calarmari Cruiser Scratchbuilding Star Wars' Mon Calamari CruiserĪfter the death of the Emperor the Alliance found the need for heavier cruisers thus came the newer series of Mon Calamari cruisers.

Mon calamari cruiser model