The Starfleet Museum group build

Good news, found warp engines in the form of Uni-ball gel pens.........perfect shape. Cutting them into the hull today. Now just need to find more epoxy putty.

Hey guys, I found something interesting at the Museum. I had this pic up as my desktop wallpaper: http://www.starfleet-museum.org/spectre_1.jpg and noticed a scantily clad woman in the lower right corner. Not that I'm complaining but.................

Link doesn't work so copy and paste.

I like it...I like it a lot.

QUOTE: Originally posted by StevenQ Hey guys, I found something interesting at the Museum. I had this pic up as my desktop wallpaper: http://www.starfleet-museum.org/spectre_1.jpg and noticed a scantily clad woman in the lower right corner. Not that I'm complaining but.................

What the...? I never noticed that either! Must be Terradyne's logo. Sneaky fellow.

Uh oh. The thread needs bumping!

I think everyone has been busy with things other than modeling. I got myself all tied up with work and then sick or was that sick of work??? Still can't get my decals right so I've held off on painting. Not sure what one has to do with the other but...

Matt

I keep having to chose between my family, work, responsibilites, and my hobby(s). My hobbies keep coming up short. Baby on the way and the busy season for us at work are taking their toll on me. I have the Avenger's saucer upperside assembled and primed. The underside parts are done I just need to put them together and prime them. Hopefully tonight I'll work on the neck.

Here's a few pics of the saucer.

Nice work Woody. I'm afraid I've stalled out too. Kids wanting to do stuff, etc.

That looks great, Woody. But it's so small! :)

Maybe I have big hands?

Woody, Outstanding work! Man I have to get on the ball. I haven't even finished the Taurus nacelles yet and still have the PV to wrap up. Maybe I'll have to take a vacation so I can get caught up.

Matt

Hey guys found a place for those acrylic domes I was looking for: http://www.kitkraft.biz/customer/home.php?cat=229
They have all sorts of other stuff too. I solved the problem of the warp engines with something else, but this might come in handy in the future. I think I'm going to buy some Magic Sculp from them.

Great link! I see they carry urethane casting resin for half what I'm paying now. Hmmmm...Interesting.

I placed my order yesterday and they've shipped it already! Not bad for service.

Used the putty on the warp nacelle areas(still drying):

Looks like it's coming together real good. What did you make the nacelles out of?

Fantastic work, Woody...

Thank you. I was just asked by a resin kit producer if I they could produce the Avenger from my masters. It might become a kit after all. We'll just have to wait and see.

StevenQ: Kestrel is looking sweet. I'm happy that the way I drew the nacelle-hull interface actually resembles the interface on the physical model. (It was a bitch to draw!)

Whew! Finally able to get back to work on the D-6!

Finished bashing the nacelle struts then reattached the engines.

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Sculpting the belly proved to be amazingly easy.
Built the forward plane out of card and then the waist (or thickest cross section of the belly) and filled that space with Magic Sculp.

The ventral fantail puzzled me for a bit.
But finally I just went for it and bent a piece of card and CA-ed it into place. More MS and a bit of sanding and voila!


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Just this morning I laminated plastic card (read For Sale signs from WalMart) and shaped the upper portion of the neck.

Now I have to fashion the lower half of the neck before I build the command section.
I have the forward topedo tube ready for just such an eventuality.

I know this would be more exciting with pictures. But that will have to wait until next week.
Let your imagination picture what I have done so far.

Even without paint, it is looking amazingly like Masao's design!

Pictures by Monday!
-Leelan

Cool. I can't wait to see the pics.

Lookin' forward to pics too, Leelan.

Woody, the nacelles were just those Uniball gel pen casings from Michael's I mentioned. They're a little long but I took some liberties. Shape isn't exact but I like them. Hope you don't mind a little deviation Masao. The mating of the nacelles to the hull actually worked better than I expected. I put down some Tamiya tape first, used an Xacto to cut the curves based on the drawing and pulled off the middle. Than applied Magic Sculp(first time with it, love it already). Next need to sand down and fill some more.

Masao, Do you have a pic of the Avenger with a nacelle removed so I can see the profile of the hulls and neck clearly?

Here you go, Woody: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v22/Masao/Avenger-sans-nacelle.jpg (88 kb)

Masao, That's great. Thank you. There is a lot going on in that trim secondary hull.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Woody Masao, That's great. Thank you. There is a lot going on in that trim secondary hull.

Yeah, there's a reactor, antimatter bottles, deterium tanks, and that cannon, which probably feeds directly off the reactor. But without a torpedo launcher, shuttle bay, or deflector, I think (I hope) there's just enough room.

The internal layout will be revealed after you get the cutaway view done.

Looking great so far Woody and congrats on the prospect of another master.

Steven, she is looking great! I think the nacelles look fine.

Leelan, looking forward to seeing those pics. So far I am most imprested with your project!

Matt

Thanks Matt!