Building the Enterprise D (Rawen's New ish Model)

AdmiralGR

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Little bit more done.

Lower final saucer part (where the Captain yacht is). I'd cut the tabs off (as I normally do) and found there were gaps. So I used the blue printed "repair section" in the kit to fill from the inside (as pictured)

The 2mm Card is interesting, one of the parts is the saucer edging that you stick over the 2mm Card edge.
 

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AdmiralGR

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My advice - when building the saucer Part 9, if I was doing it again I'd use 1mm card not 2mm.

As you can see from the picture, part 10 - the rim that wraps arround part 9 is smaller than the 2mm part!
 

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AdmiralGR

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As with the lower saucer and the captains yacht section, the last part of the upper saucer does align properly so had to add inner blue strips to fill the gaps
 

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AdmiralGR

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Finished the saucer tonight.

Added the saucer side strips, think it really makes the saucer. Aswell as adding the thrusters.

I've added an additional greeble of the captains yacht (from a second printout) as the lower saucer looked too flat.

One of the things I did, a tip from another builder when I started a few years back, is to colour the edge of the card. I used one of my kids water colour pencils with dab on the tounge, it really removes the Sharpe white edge.
 

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