It's exactly the same size of the studio model. Special thanks goes out to Tim Ketzer, a fantastic sci-fi builder who helped me locate kits for 'kitbashing' this project. It is very important to study the model from published pictures. I used the 'Star Wars Chronicles' book since it has the best pictures of the studio model available. You can also find reference material in Shane Johnson' s 'Star Wars Technical Journal'.
All right model generals it time to begin planning.
To begin I gathered all the pieces from all the kits that were to be used. Each has 1 part per kit. Note - this part can also be obtained for considerably less from a Tamiya German Artillery crew figures set. Once I gathered all the pieces and the plastistruct shipment arrived I began to assemble my project. The first thing I did was add about 1 cm of thin sheet styrene to the outer diameter of the Darth Vader wings.