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Top view.
The darker grey pieces, symmetrical about the midline and mostly
concentrated towards the rear of the ship, represent the
``cortex'' or ``city'' of the Super Star Destroyer. The lone
dark-grey piece three studs back from the nose is structurally
necessary to hold the two ``wing'' pieces together. The bridge
is picked out in light grey.
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Front view.
From this angle, the model's most serious - and unavoidable -
inaccuracy is apparent: the wings should sweep back in a
straight line from the nose to the widest part. In the model,
however, a limited selection of pieces means that a ``kink'' has
to be introduced half way back.
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Back view.
Note that the rear part of the ship's central body is elevated
relative to the wings, to allow space for the main engines
beneath. Authenticity, you know.
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Side view.
Note the left-sided steering engine, just visible
hanging below the wing.
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Rear-left view.
This shows the construction of the rear part of the wing clearly
- one of the toughest parts of the model to get right. It would
be more accurate without the 45-degree plates the the bottom of
the stack, but these are necessary for structural reasons, as
the view from below illustrates.
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View of engines from beneath.
The real Super Star Destroyer has thirteen engines in all: a
bank of three engines in the middle, which are modelled here;
ahead of and outside these, two further pairs of engines; and
ahead of and outside those, two triples of steering engines.
Due to limitations of space and material, I omitted the second
set of engines altogether and provided only a single steering
engine on each side. In the films, Super Star Destroyer engines
glow red, but mine are blue since that's what you get with the
Star Destroyer kit.
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