Star Wars Sandcrawler

This is a diorama I made for  friend to display his smaller scale "Star Wars" figures. This is one of his favourite scenes.

I made the Sandcrawler itself entirely from just corrugated cardboard recycled from boxes and computer print-out.
It's actually quite a bit longer at either end than you see in this photograph. There is an upper door for Jawas to stand in which is internally lit.

That is amazing! You made the tracks! And you used the corrugations in the cardboard to make the track mechanism look more realistic!

Wow! Just... wow!

When I was a kid, the sandcrawler scenes were my favorite sequence in the first movie. It looked so real, and so huge! I was very sad when the sandcrawler was destroyed by the Storm Troopers.

How did you do the internal lighting? Battery-operated holiday string lights?

SCU_HQ wrote:

When I was a kid, the sandcrawler scenes were my favorite sequence in the first movie. It looked so real, and so huge! I was very sad when the sandcrawler was destroyed by the Storm Troopers.

I was disappointed when I saw that in reality the thing was little bigger than a shoe box! The very low camera angle made the thing look huge as it came into view over the sand hill!

SCU_HQ wrote:

How did you do the internal lighting? Battery-operated holiday string lights?

Very similar. Those things have great applications for modelling. I did a cut-away flying saucer for the same bloke using them.

Great build, Barry!!!

Any chance you have more pics?

Well done!!!

Superb dio building Barry!

Thanks Brian and Dal!
I'll try to get a few more pics to show the rest.
It was made specifically to fit the entire shelf above a computer desk. There are actually three parts to the thing.
The two tracks and then the main body which rests on them.

Great build and nice photo
Love it
I recently dug out my old Star Wars figures and put them on display
There's still some vehicles and other 3 3/4 " figures to sort out in my parents loft