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First up here's the Ahwahnee 'refit' ;) For my next trick I'm going to have a go at Clever Santoro's Excelsior class - the registry doesn't matter for this one as almost the entire front half of the primary hull will be obliterated. This one will be my USS Melbourne. I'm building it in no...

@ThunderChild Thank-you very much :)

@D-WHALE lol - I was being really careful to not put them on upside down and I've still finished upside down! There are too many distractions here ;)

@Rhaven Blaack Thanks for the suggestion :). I finished off before I got your message though - oops! There seems to be no consensus with this ship - pick ten sources and you'll get ten configurations! So I took the bits I wasn't sure of and put them where I thought they looked OK ;) The result...

@zathros @spaceagent-9 Many thanks to both of you :). I had a lot of stuff to do for the Olds today so I don't have much progress to report. The blue LED arrived today and then I found that all my PP3 batteries were dead and I had to run into town for replacements. Unfortunately I then had to...

This is the completed upper saucer (the lower is also built and looks very similar):- I decided to work on the nacelles before the struts. The brown and blue parts of the larger pieces will be removed and have the separate pieces inset by gluing them on the back. The tiny pieces in my...

Before starting the next ship I've attached the USS Princeton to the backdrop. There's no point attaching the Borg cube yet as I still have loads of electronics to fit inside it. It is, however, well out of my furry Doomsday Machine's grasp though! I've glued the Wolf 359 system onto an...

@spaceagent-9 pmsl ;) @scifimodelfan Thank-you very much :) I'm pretty much on the home straight now:- Just the nacelles left:- And my latest little bundle of joy is finished:- From bow to stern this wee guy (the smallest of my Wolf 359 fleet) measures 3/4".

@Rhaven Blaack Many thanks Rhaven :). If you think that one is small you'll love this one:- So that's two down, eleven to go and since I'm working on the most complicated/intricate/fiddly ones first, next up is the USS Bonestell. The vast majority of the parts from the original design are...

@spaceagent-9 lol - I've given myself a medal:- @blueyeppoon Thank-you very much :) The parts for the nacelles that I've used are these:- The bussard pieces in the original design are unworkable at this scale so I've used blobs of blu tac, shaped and coloured red. And 3 1/2 hours later:-...

@spaceagent-9 My thoughts exactly! :) If the fo filament isn't stiff enough I still have fairly thin wire to fall back on. Today's building has been painfully slow. I was spot on about the intricacy of the rear end. Some pieces are so thin that they are splitting just from handling -...

@Rhaven Blaack Thank-you very much :) I'm putting a wee bit of extra effort into this one (these ones) as the finished diorama will be displacing a few dozen Asterix characters -I know, I'm a big kid! ;) @spaceagent-9 Funny that you mentioned a tube - I tried a wee experiment with a rolled up...

I forgot to mention that the design I'm using is the 8" version of the Borg cube by Sirius Replicas.

The Borg cube has been assimilating more of my balsa supply today:- I've been building the frame inside the cube as I add more faces. Additional beams will be needed for mounting it and for holding batteries. The main damage hole has been completed. I pulled out filaments of the wire wool then...

There's one face of the Borg cube which has more going on in it than the others so I'll show the log for it. Most of the Federation/Klingon fire seems to be concentrated in one place and I've cut out a large hole for this:- I've also cut some smaller areas which are black on the surface to try...

The four sheets for the backdrop are attached and I'm ready to build some kind of support. The USS Princeton is now finished - woohoo! Oops! Spot the deliberate mistake! I've now filled the hole at the rear of the starboard nacelle. The finished model ended up bigger than I would have...

@spaceagent-9 Thanks Jim :) My Doomsday Machine is a big lad, he could demolish a shoe box as easily as a matchbox ;). Maybe a reinforced concrete bunker would.... lol.

It looks like my progress has been better than I thought - the Princeton should be finished tomorrow! The bit that looks like a windsock which fell foul of a tornado is the beginning of the secondary hull. I find it easier to use thin strips of paper rather than sitting cutting endless tiny...

Progress has been slow again today. Quite a few pieces from the original design can be discarded and some must be discarded otherwise the model will be as deep as it is long! It also makes it too difficult to cut through with nail scissors if all the layers are used. The bottom 'cap' on the...

@spaceagent-9 Thank-you very, very, very much for all the background research - it's greatly appreciated :-) . I've downloaded at least two of Paragon's designs, but I can't recall which off the top of my head - I'll credit the designers as I log the builds. The fibre optic cable arrived this...