1/400 TOS Enterprise

[blake7]

Dang! Your right! I thought I check, rechecked, and triple checked. My mind still did it wrong. Fixed it! Thanks spaceagent! By the way the nacelle pylon supports I designed made them feel like light wood inside the nacelle pylons.

 

[spaceagent-9]

if it works it works bro, but I never had any luck with anything but a hobby brass plank bent in a V, I would like to see it work! Also I though maybe rolled tubes like in the cut away model might be cool too. My luck with popsicle sticks, was that they held good for a few days but then the paper disbonded and they slid out, tilting the entire pylon engine set diagonally down to the right. I bent a hobby plank into a V and then anchored it across the middle at the bottom to the hull with plates and loads of glue and that held on my 1/350. then I just cut some slits in Ron's assembly support hub-[a very good piece by the way!] and slid the planks in, the flexed enough to slide in and up and then glue the top and popped on the nacelles. That worked very well and I gave it away eventually.

 

[zathros]

I like to use Tig welding Rod. That stuff holds it shape. If you take a piece of the rod, tie it off to a very secure end, then pull on the other end really hard, with your end wrapped around a dowel, it will all of a sudden stretch and become hardened wire, which you can bend once into a very rigid shape, once, if you bend it more than a a couple of times at the exact same spot, it will break, but once, and it stays extremely rigid. I learned this when I used to make components for analog flight instrument gauges. A little Red Flag comes down when the instrument fails. The Red Flag is held by a wire that is treated as I described.

 

[blake7]

Started building the second half of the main body/hull.

 

[spaceagent-9]

It's looking very nice isn't it?

 

[blake7]

Thank you spaceagent-9! It is getting there slowly.

 

[zathros]

Coming along fine. These ships look simple but they aren't. ")

 

[blake7]

Thanks zathros! I modified the simple stand from USS Enterprise NCC 1701 A V6 pdf. I also finished the sensor array. Just the nacelles yet to build.

 

[THE DC]

You've made a lot of progress!

 

[blake7]

Thank you THE DC! Life hit pretty hard, but we are doing ok now plus a dang cold knock me off my feet yesterday. Might be a little before I get to the naccelles, and a little beacon light over the hanger bay. I will work on it when I can.

 

[THE DC]

"Its very cold...in space..."

 

[blake7]

Thanks for trying to make me feel better. I feel like" H_LL" warmed over. Made a little progress.

 

[Ron Caudillo]

Sorry for late comments. Thanks for sharing photos of your excellent build. LOVE the largeer size, I hope everything still fits right.

Looking forward to seeing this beast finished!

Best Regards,
Ron Caudillo

 

[blake7]

Thanks Ron Caudillo for the kind words! Made some progress. Getting closer to finishing.

 

[THE DC]

This thread really shows off the kit!

Thanks...

 

[blake7]

Thanks for the good words THE DC. Didn't get much done.

 

[zathros]

What happened to all the "Like" links in this thread???? O.K., I had to refresh the page. Weird.

 

[spaceagent-9]

That's looking great!

 

[blake7]

Thank you spaceagent 9! I finished the nacelles, the beacon light, and the whole model. I took pictures of it on my washing machine. Not many places I could set it to take pictures.

 

[blake7]