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

[Cybergrinder]

I wish that were true....

 

[Cybergrinder]

So, I had a busy weekend but did get around to finishing the port greebling and starboard main hulls.

In the process the phaser array got damaged... but it needed work any way

So, experiments in lighting! I wanted the light to be dispersed for the warp nacelles, the LED on it's own would be too intense at one spot. So, with the LEDs, silcone sealant and a small 2ml plastic pipette ...

I was able to make this!



Sorry, I didn't want to solder to my bit of circuit board yet, so my finger's in the way. I packed the bulb of the pipette with silicone & the inserted the LED. I'm also using the bore of the pipette for other lighting area's (fibre optic principle , thanks Zathros!)

The nice thing with silcone it can be cut to fit relatively easily and the bulb doubles up as a mould!

And here's the hull halves joined and an unlit warp light in the middle

 

[Revell-Fan]

Sorry, I didn't want to solder to my bit of circuit board yet, so my finger's in the way.

I can see that it is not your finger that lights up.

 

[Cybergrinder]

Nah, chose not to phone home

 

[Revell-Fan]

C.G. - the E.T. of P.C.!

(Cybergrinder - the Extraordinary Talent of Paper Crafting!)

 

[Cybergrinder]

Thank you, that is high praise indeed!

 

[Cybergrinder]

So, I got a couple of hours last night, finished the secondary deflector and primary sensor array

 

[zathros]

Your deflector dish looks like someone backed into it. I'd revisit that seeing how the rest of the Hull is looking pretty damned good. IMHO.

 

[Cybergrinder]

bit too much pressure with the tweezers when positioning it.... I'm going to ...

 

[Revell-Fan]

Borg damage!

 

[Cybergrinder]

Failed assimilation... Guess it was .. deflected?

 

[zathros]

Maybe a Borg ship kicked up a comment?

 

[Cybergrinder]

LOL, rebuilt it last night, I'll hopefully have some pics after the weekend

 

[Revell-Fan]

Maybe a Borg ship kicked up a comment?

"We are the Borg. We will add your paper model builds to our collection. Resistance is futile!"

 

[Cybergrinder]

Worf to Borg, "Assimilate this!" fires high pressure water jet at above mentioned (paper) Borg...

 

[Revell-Fan]

... paper Borg gets hit and unfolds into a flat piece of paper and sings, "Smoke on the Water"...

 

[zathros]

I always wondered if Bjorn Borg was a Borg? Maybe he was bjorn that bway? Bit's bhard bto bsay. Sounds almost like Pig Latin, a dying anguagelaybay. Obat adbay. ˙punoɹƃ ǝɥʇ uo ʇǝǝɟ ʎɯ ʇǝƃ ʇ,uɐɔ ʇsnɾ I ˙ǝɯ ɹoɟ uʍop ǝpᴉsdn ʎllɐǝɹ ǝɯɐs sƃuᴉɥʇ ʎlǝʇɐ˥
˙ʇooqǝɹ ɹǝʇʇǝq 'pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇᴉʍ ƃuoɹʍ s,ƃuᴉɥʇǝɯoS

 

[Cybergrinder]

@Revell-Fan ; got that riff stuck in my head now....

@zathros , on the tennis court, resistance was futile. He had a smorgaborg of shots!

Back to seriousness for a moment.




Done.

I finished the upper hull, reworked deflector and phasers assembled

 

[Revell-Fan]

I can already hear the Voyager main theme in my head by now.

 

[zathros]

Cybergrinder, that is looking really sharp!