De ja ... the feeling you're building a model you built before...

[Cybergrinder]

So,

After a multiple year hiatus I've finally picked up the trusted craft knife & begun to rebuild my collection that was devastated years ago (see my thread "the destroyer beholds" for more details ) And I jumped in the deep end! Christine's USS Voyager!!

Pics to follow soon

 

[Revell-Fan]

YAY!

 

[blake7]

I will be watching! I too lost models in a move.

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

I know the feeling of loosing models from a move. When I moved back to the US (from Eastern Europe), I was not able to take my models with me and my ex-wife threw them away. So now, I am needing to rebuild my entire collection.
The good thing is, I can add all of the extra details and greebles that I wanted to in the beginning!
I am looking forward to seeing your builds and see what all you do. I wish you the best of luck with each one.

 

[Cybergrinder]

@Rhaven Blaack ; that wasn't the reason for divorce?

It's true what you say, you know "trouble" areas and parts that you know you can improve I started greebling....

So, I started with the primary hull this time as I had a big blaps on the last build (huge bobble on the port side)



My wife is studying Biblical Hebrew, if you're wondering about the textbook underneath

hmm, need to touch up the phaser array....

 

[Revell-Fan]

Did you have a printer issue? Those colour streaks shouldn't be there...

 

[Cybergrinder]

Yup, I did. After printing the whole thing twice I thought bugger it. Explaination: It's due to a minor malfunction in the warp core

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

Her destroying my models was her way of "hurting" me. She thought that if she did it, that it would upset me. I know (in advance) that such would happen. So I took the attitude of knowing that I could use this opportunity to rebuild everything with all of the improvements that I wanted to.

 

[Cybergrinder]

Ouch. I would not normally agree with divorce, but this is a valid reason. When someone is just nasty like that....

At least you're seeing the bright side!

 

[Revell-Fan]

Will you incorporate LEDs?

 

[zathros]

Remove the printer heads, and clean out the nozzles with a syringe from a pharmacy, the kind they give kids medicine with. You can easily find a rubber hose to fit over the syringe. Flush with warm water, each nozzle from where it pierces the ink cartridge. After you replace everything, clean the rollers, and make sure while the ink carriage is out of the way, you clean the head rubber swiper, and all the ink build up around it. That swiper tends to get too much ink from swiping, and dirties the rollers, and cause all kinds of havoc. I clean my machine probably 3 times a year this way.

 

[Cybergrinder]

Thanks Zathros, I'll remember that for my own printer, but I think the company would object

@Revell-Fan - oohhh, now that's an idea.... got some LEDs from kids toys that broke....being a hoarder is fun!

 

[Revell-Fan]

Lay in a course for Alpha quadrant - ENGAGE!

 

[Cybergrinder]

That was Picard, can't remember what Janeway said....

 

[Revell-Fan]

Janeway? ... Hum...

"Now THIS is how I prefer the Borg - in PIECES."

 

[zathros]

Thanks Zathros, I'll remember that for my own printer, but I think the company would object

@Revell-Fan - oohhh, now that's an idea.... got some LEDs from kids toys that broke....being a hoarder is fun!

Don't get a model stuck halfway printing!!

 

[Cybergrinder]

LOL, thanks Zathros, so, I checked my LED stock, should have enough to do port & starboard running lights, impulse engines and warp nacelles!

I also found an old circuit board that I can recycle Now, to figure out the wiring...

On that point, any suggestions on how to maximise the LED effect? the last time I lit up a model it was plastic so I painted the inside black.

 

[zathros]

You can use shrink wrap around the LED to minimize the unwanted effect, or paint it will Black nail polish. LED's can also be filed and shaped, so long as you do not expose the Cathode and Anode. I would encourage the use of fiber optic strands though, as these come in such a variety of diameters, and lighting effects, it boggles the mind. Their are strands that light on the side, ones that light only on the ends. Some are 2 mm across, while others are as thin as a hair. You can get variety packs. The dashboard of my 1973 450SL is lit one with one 1mm strand of Fiber Optic wire. The bulb is under the center of the dash, behind, in front of the filter, it's been so many years since I replaced it, I'm not sure any more. That one bulb lit a lot of things.






450SL

 

[Cybergrinder]

Thanks Zathros, I actually have some as well I know exactly how to do this now

 

[zathros]

Hey, get to work, you still home!!