The Starfleet Museum group build

Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 6:48 PM

Very nice!

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maxx1969

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May 2004
From: Oregon

Posted by maxx1969 on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 6:51 PM

And here is the Moskva class tug USS Taurus in 1:1000th (she is tiny):

The bottom:

The top:

Side:

With container:

And the Taurus leaving:

Thanks for letting me add this to the build Woody.

Matt

~Matt T Meyer

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 7:00 PM

Again, excellent! Are you going to make a standard version as well?

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maxx1969

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May 2004
From: Oregon

Posted by maxx1969 on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 7:11 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Masao

Again, excellent! Are you going to make a standard version as well?

I would like to. The funny thing is I'll probably be building a standard Moskva and a PV class tug.

Matt

~Matt T Meyer

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maxx1969

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May 2004
From: Oregon

Posted by maxx1969 on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 11:56 PM

"Today was a good day to model."

I finished the sensor detail, added the the bridge dome, placed all the formation light bumps, and glued on the nacelles. She is now in her pre-paint primer coat.

On my next days off I'll get some Starfleet issue paint on the old girl. Now I'm going to have to work out that little problem known as decals.

Matt

~Matt T Meyer

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:01 AM

Beautiful work, maxx1969. I've been making a little progress on my Daedalus Class. Have a look here: http://laurenoliver.tripod.com/models/trek/daedalus.html

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:17 PM

That's awesome Prof... How'd you do the rings around the "neck" and the engineering section? (Assuming you don't mind me asking...)

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:02 PM

Outstanding work Matt!

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maxx1969

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May 2004
From: Oregon

Posted by maxx1969 on Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:58 PM

Thanks ProfKSergeev and Steven. How is your project coming along Steven?

Matt

~Matt T Meyer

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Woody

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December 2002
From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:19 PM

Matt and Lauren, Your work is outstanding! You guys are masters of the craft.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 11, 2005 11:25 AM

maxx1969,

That's an awesome Moskva Class. I'm impressed. Is it in 1:1000?

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modelnut

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September 2010

Posted by modelnut on Friday, February 11, 2005 1:01 PM

Have any of you thought about making kits of your scratchbuilds?
I know the Professor is. But how about the others?

There is a site on the Web that offers conversion kits etc for the Polar Lights 1000th scale TOS ENTERPRISE: http://www.starshipmodeler.com/store/store.cfm
John and Linda won't mind a few more I am sure.

Now I don't know the details of how you would do this. But it would offer a central "location" for spreading the joy! Big Smile [:D]

-Leelan

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maxx1969

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May 2004
From: Oregon

Posted by maxx1969 on Friday, February 11, 2005 2:17 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Captain_Mills

maxx1969,

That's an awesome Moskva Class. I'm impressed. Is it in 1:1000?

Thanks! And yes it is. I'm replacing the caps for the nacelles as I didn't like the way they looked. I made a small open pour mold and cast it in resin. The first one came out great and is already on.

Matt

~Matt T Meyer

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Woody

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December 2002
From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Friday, February 11, 2005 6:38 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by modelnut

Have any of you thought about making kits of your scratchbuilds?
I know the Professor is. But how about the others?

There is a site on the Web that offers conversion kits etc for the Polar Lights 1000th scale TOS ENTERPRISE: http://www.starshipmodeler.com/store/store.cfm
John and Linda won't mind a few more I am sure.

Now I don't know the details of how you would do this. But it would offer a central "location" for spreading the joy!

-Leelan

I'm actually thinking of doing that with my Baton Rouge class from the last build. I inquired about it on the forum but Linda told me to send John a direct email. I haven't gotten around to doing that but I did order some more RTV so I can give it a whirl on my own.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:36 PM

I have a question to Masao and the rest of you:

The site shows an overall length of 104.5m for the Daedalus and 128.3 for the wasp.
I estimated and am constructing my daedalus to fit a measure of 180m for the overall length. (72% more)
Should I adjust the Wasp length to the same ratio, a smaller ratio, or none at all?

Opinions would be nice...

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:23 PM

Well, I designed Wasp before I started thinking much about Daedalus, so their relative sizes aren't so important. However, I think 180 is a bit big for Daedalus. Regardless, I wouldn't suggest you mess with the size of Wasp. it was intended to be a certain size, but not in relation to Daedalus. Of course, I'm sort of protective of my designs!

How did you decide that Daedalus should be 180 m?

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Woody

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December 2002
From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Sunday, February 13, 2005 9:22 PM

I think that the Daedalus is bigger than 105m, personally. My opinion is that it is about 134.75m long. I originally wanted to believe the ship is about 200m but I have come to believe it is in between the most often quoted length of 105m and my examination of window spacing and corresponding deck height that lead me to believe it was close to 200m. I wanted to believe that a deepspace vessel had ample deck height for crew moral and comfort but I've lately come to the conclusion that those were pioneer days and comfort wasn't part of the package so a deck height of about 3m is more likely. All IMHO.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 14, 2005 5:39 AM

Woody, I agree that Daedalus should probably be bigger than 105, and around 130 sounds good.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 14, 2005 12:57 PM

Isn't the ProfK doing a Daedalus? Prof, what size did you estimate as the length of the Daedalus?

QUOTE: How did you decide that Daedalus should be 180 m?

Quite unscientifically... I copied a jpg of the Enterprise and one of the daedalus, then used photoshop to scale the enterprise down to where the windows looked the same size (but keeping in mind that I wanted to be able to see detail on the Daedalus, so the Daedalus' windows were slightly larger.). Then I measured the ratio of the lengths on the jpg image, compared the ratio to the PL kit, back to the size of the TOS Ent, and came up with a number between 160m and 190m. The spheres sold at plastruct dictated the final number. 1.75" was too small for me, 2" was too big, but I went with 2" anyways, putting the length at 178.Something meters. I rounded up to 180m...

Silly, I know...

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Woody

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December 2002
From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:27 AM

How's everybody doing? I haven't had a lot of time to work on mine but I did manage to make the tiny bridge module.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones

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maxx1969

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May 2004
From: Oregon

Posted by maxx1969 on Saturday, February 19, 2005 8:57 PM

I haven't had much time myself. I did run into a problem with the decals though. I seem to have lost my federation font file and the only other thing I have would require printing a full sheet of letters and numbers. Does any one know of a good down loadable Trek font file that will work with Windows?

Matt

~Matt T Meyer

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:47 PM

For a font, this comes by way of the Hobbytalk BBS:
http://home.earthlink.net/~casimiro/
And for progress, I'm grinding away at the my Torsk- the warp and gun pods are attached, and the impulse vents are cut out and waiting to be attached. Hopefully I'll be able to get some pictures up tomorrow. A rainy day at home got me looking at the abandoned Cabbage tokamak, and I might be able to stick something kind of like a Chowder together as an exercise in speed and utilization of clutter. Parts breakdown so far would be an acrylic wineglass, half a Pokemon ball, a concrete form snap-tie part, some plastic spoons, the wings from a 1/72 Harrier, and other assorted bits. It really would be easier to sratchbuild this one!
Andrew

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:41 AM

Awesome, a Torsk! I wish all of these could be kitted...

Also, let me know what KIND of font you are looking for. I have them all, and I can email them to you as soon as Tuesday...

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maxx1969

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May 2004
From: Oregon

Posted by maxx1969 on Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:49 AM

Thanks guys but before I went to bed last night my wife informed me that she not only found but loaded the fonts in so I'm ready to go. Shes so cool Big Smile [:D]

Looking forward to those pics Andrew.

Matt

~Matt T Meyer

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 20, 2005 11:33 AM

Hi, I'd like to ask if I may be included in this build. Here's the vessel from the museum I'll be building:

I'll be building the K'Tinga variant of the class. Thanks!

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Woody

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From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Sunday, February 20, 2005 6:00 PM

Larry you are more than welcome to join. The only rule of this build is that you must pick a ship from Masao's site. A D-7 would be better choice because I don't believe there are any post-TOS vessels like the K'T'INGA on the site. I have really hoped somebody would pick a non-Federation design.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 20, 2005 6:20 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Woody

Larry you are more than welcome to join. The only rule of this build is that you must pick a ship from Masao's site. A D-7 would be better choice because I don't believe there are any post-TOS vessels like the K'T'INGA on the site. I have really hoped somebody would pick a non-Federation design.

Hmmm ... is'nt a K'tinga a D-7? I thought it was. Uh oh, I already ordered it! Sad [:(]

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Woody

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December 2002
From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Sunday, February 20, 2005 7:16 PM

This GB is being done in the name of fun so I guess I don't mind if you build the K'tinga. It is a D-7 but a later version that is outside of the era of the museum. Do you want me to add you to the roster?

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 20, 2005 9:27 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Woody

This GB is being done in the name of fun so I guess I don't mind if you build the K'tinga. It is a D-7 but a later version that is outside of the era of the museum. Do you want me to add you to the roster?

I don't wanna ruin the GB, so I'll build a straight D7, using the Polar Lights kit. I had ordered Chris's little K'Tinga resin kit (he has a few left), but I'd actually like to do a straight D7 in that menacing scheme from the museum site! Go ahead and add me. Thanks.

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Woody

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Posted by Woody on Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:15 PM

Great to have you onboard! I've added you to the roster.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones

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