Lego Star Wars DioramaLego Star Wars PowerStar WarseroGod StarStar Wars DayStar Wars StuffLego Star Wars CreationsL E G O S Movies StarwarsStar TrenchForwardStar Wars Trench Run from the movie: Star Wars IV - A new hope. This MOC is build in 2/3 of mini fig scale and is about 6 meters long. Originally build for the Star Wars day @ Legoland Germany 2011. ( Build by Dutch Moonbase member Marco Baas )Got some downtime this weekend? Channel your Force powers into some arts and crafts with this step-by-step guide to turning a spherical Ikea lamp into the spitting image of the planet-killing Death Star itself. Turn the lamp on and it looks like the lethal “Star Wars” space station is stuck mid-explosion. The guide comes courtesy of Lylelo over at BoredPanda and is painstakingly detailed, so anyone can do it. You will need a very specific Ikea lamp, though. Luckily, the lamp — called the Ikea PS 2014 — is still sold on the retailer’s website and will only set you back $80, which is a small price to pay considering that a LEGO Death Star kit costs a cool $500.
RELATED: 15 Star Wars Anthology Series Films We Need To See Made Once you’ve got your lamp, your only limitation is your imagination… and spray paint. Using spray paint and masking tape, Lylelo created a very convincing Death Star design by first painting the lamp a light grey, applying the masking tape once dry, painting over the lamp while the tape was still applied and then removing the tape to reveal the light color beneath. Lylelo used a handmade stencil and tracing pencil to create the framework for the more detailed circular firing apparatus, which was painted by hand at the very end. The result is a fully operational Death Star that transforms from whole to exploding with the simple pull of the lamp’s cord, an added benefit of using this particular Ikea model.Constructing an actual Death Star of your own might not be in the cards unless you happen to be an intergalactic emperor. On the other hand, you could try your hand at one of these smaller replicas. From one very small Death Star to one that you could almost live in, check out these seven DIY Death Star builds!
Though this is not the biggest ‘Star featured here (read on for one that dwarfs even this monster), our own Caleb Kraft decided to make his own out of a 12 foot beach ball. He shows how you can make your own in this Make: post. Posing in front of it with battling spacecraft is optional, but encouraged. Going from quite large to one of the smallest on the list is this Death Star Ornament. From the article, it looks like a harder build than one might initially expect, though the resulting precise graphics and LED-lighting look quite nice! If the Death Star is coming within range of your home planet, and your interstellar defenses aren’t quite up to snuff, what are you to do? If it happens to be made out of papier-mâché, you can just bash it in with a pool noodle lightsaber. As f, this is a relatively simple build, outlined in an imgur album. If you’d like something that looks really out of place, but really awesome at the same time, check out HomeMade Modern’s Death Star Vase how-to.
It cleverly uses a mold meant to make Death Star-shaped ice cubes to form the concrete “moon.” So why would you want a boring purplish clock, when you could have one shaped like a Death Star? Sure, you might not know if it’s 4:something or 5:something, but when you rule the galaxy with an iron fist, people will certainly adhere to EST (Empire Standard Time) without complaint! If you can’t have your space station floating around in space, this globe conversion will at least give the impression of flight. This instructables article shows you how to convert a “normal” levitating globe into something much more menacing. As reported in this Make: article, the 23′ geodesic sphere is the largest one that creator, Colby Powell, has heard of. Using 2000 feet of PVC pipe and covered with two parachutes, it could be the largest in existence, though I’d love to to see that conjecture proven wrong!Watermelon BetterWatermelon HacksMaking WatermelonEnjoy WatermelonSummer WatermelonSummer StapleSummer BbqSummer PartyStaple Here'SForwardIf you really want to get creative with your cookie cutter creations, use letters to spell your guests' names out of melon.
They'll never mix up their drinks again! Click through for more on this and other summer watermelon hacks.Try going back to the homepageHow to Make a Death Star Cake This Death Star cake was so much fun to make that you just won’t know when to stop decorating! It is made from a dark chocolate mud cake and covered with a layer of delicious dark chocolate ganache underneath the sugarpaste. If you don’t have round cake pans, use two 8.5-inch or 9-inch metal kitchen bowls to bake the cakes.Supplies2 half round dark chocolate cakes 750 grams sugarpaste in grey 350 grams sugarpaste in black 360 grams sugarpaste in dark grey Plastic dowels or other cake supports #1 tip and piping bag Cake board with center dowel inserted 9-inch cardboard cake boards Place cakes on 9-inch round thin cake boards. Make sure that the bottom half of the cake has a flat bottom to sit on. Carve the concave portion of the Death Star by using a round cookie cutter to mark the position of the hole and pushing the cutter in a little bit to get started with the sculpting.
Cover cakes with ganache.Cover with grey sugarpaste. Insert 4 thin plastic dowels, as shown, and one thick one in the middle which will fit over the small wooden dowel which has been inserted into the base board by first drilling a hole in the middle of the board. These plastic dowels can easily be cut with scissors.Do not assemble the cakes on the base board until all decoration is fully complete.Roll out the dark grey sugarpaste as thin as you can, and cut out all the shapes that you think you will need. Glue them onto the cakes with edible glue. Use stills from the movies for reference.Add black edible color to the royal icing until the correct shade of grey is achieved. Fill a pipping bag fitted with #1 tip, and pipe with the royal icing, making up your designs as you go. Use the pictures of the finished Death Star as inspiration.Roll out the black sugarpaste, making a little hole in the center. Slip the hole over the dowel in the center and cover the cake board. Once it is the right shape, lift up the edges of the sugarpaste, and paint a little water underneath to help the sugarpaste stick to the board.