Who's USS Constellation?

Woody, I believe that was done buy "12Rogues" at least that what he goes by on the pcmodeler.com forum. I don't know what here. There is a group build on the PL E kit going on over there.

Regardles of who, it's a lovely peice of work.

Looks like this one: http://www.starshipmodeler.org/gallery7/bl_constellation.htm

Oh, Yea, That's the same one. Who's the guy??? It's good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is a very good battle damage star ship model. Oh by the way congrats woody on your 4th star.
mark956

OK, I confess...I made the Connie. Yeah, you say? REALLY...I DID. REALLY? REALLY! Yes, full admission, I BROKE THE CONSTELLATION.

Thank you all for the compliments. It has a flashing belly light in the starboard engine with fiber optics going toward the front an rear of the engine. I had to graft thin plastic in all the saucer damage areas so when I made rips in the saucer the thin plastic would look to scale with the saucer hull and decks. When the saucer thin areas were completely hidden...I destroyed the nice looking areas with a burring tool in the Dremel MiniMite and Xacto blade. Ripped, torn and broken. I almost cried when I ripped apart the saucer thin areas that took hours to make. But I imagined what it would look like when it was completed and the Connie came out looking better than I thought it would.

The tough part was making details in the damage area holes. If someone were to look in the engine holes they would see broken engines that resemble warp engine schematics.

A priority on this build was the deflector dish had to be bent with a dented dish and bent amplifer behind the dish. OK, dumb priority but I just had to have a bent/dent dish.

I finally made decent pictures of the Connie the other day. Here is what it looks like when I have decent lighting and enough time:

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/af5942//connie_model.jpg

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/af5942//connie_model2.jpg

No one else has thought to make a Polar Lights model into a broken Connie?

Awesome work! Incredible! I also plan on doing a battle damaged Constellation, and perhaps a before version as well.
Lee

hey Lee, isthat a Video clip in your siggy??? or is that amodel???

Most awesome build! Can you make me one?, LOL



Rob

Yes, excellent job. I've read other people planning this conversion, but it seems you've beat them to it. It takes a little more patience to do something like this. Are you planning on doing any of the Franz Josef Designs?

I guess I beat the group build on the other modeling web sites.

I did come up with an idea last night to make an ISS (negative universe) Enterprise. The thought came to me to, open the mind here and imagine, to have a double engineering section and two necks holding the saucer section. At first I thought about just having the two engines but then the idea flowered into having three engines in a "W" configuration.

In theme with the "warship" ISS E I wanted external ribbing for the engineering section. Think of the external ribbing like the spaceship Cygnus in the Disney movie "Black Hole"

Any thoughts on this?

I guess I beat the group build on the other modeling web sites.

I did come up with an idea last night to make an ISS (negative universe) Enterprise. The thought came to me to, open the mind here and imagine, to have a double engineering section and two necks holding the saucer section. At first I thought about just having the two engines but then the idea flowered into having three engines in a "W" configuration.

In theme with the "warship" ISS E I wanted external ribbing for the engineering section. Think of the external ribbing like the spaceship Cygnus in the Disney movie "Black Hole"

Any thoughts on this?

roosterfish--

Very nice work on the Connie. I'm still dragging my feet getting started on my PL Enterprise. I was going to build it "as-is" but use the NCC-64 Number as a tribute to the "real" Connie that was just decomissioned.

Beautiful work--

My plan is to make a partial Planet Killer to go with mine when I do it, as a base/diorama. Mount it on the wall, with the Constellation firing it's single phaser against it, using side-glow fiber optic inside of a clear plexi tube supporting the Connie, linking it to the PK. The fiber optic will be powered from the Planet Killer side, as a convenient way to hide the power/battery set up. Assuming I get all my interior home repair tasks done, I should have this finished by Wonderfest. (fingers crossed!)

I have a Planet Killer to go along with the Connie but it is not as ambitious as Jorg. I put it next to the Polar Lights Connie. It is a 9 inch long, lit, resin model. The Doomsday Machine has two belly button lights inside it to give it sparkle.

You can see it here:

http://www.culttvman.com/billy_lehner_s_doomsday_machin.html