NCC 7100 Stargazer - From Picard's Ready Room

Sharp work, Nighteyes, especially the autographed panel. How are you doing donor-wise? Let me know if decide to switch to acrylic for the hull and armature and I'll send you my files.
 
I am still waiting for the Guramu Zan to arrive but I've got all the others, sans one for those tank treads. I very much appreciate you're offer for the hull plans. will most definitely need a top and sides styrene or acrylic.

Tossing around display ideas in my head. It would be fun to add a socket at the rear to utilize a ready room style stand for a vertical display with correct registry panel. Then back to horizontal and the 7100 panel.
 
Hey Nighteyes...your pictures of what you have done so far look good. I too, am using a refit bottom main hull on my Stargazer build. I cut mine at the 5th ring from the center. I have grafted mine to the outer section of a second upper hull. I used thin sheet styrene sections to help strengthen the seam where these two hull sections meet. I cut out the lower main hull on the vacform Stargazer hull, added .060 sheet styrene to strengthen the lower vac hull, with a one inch overhang to glue the new lower hull I made. I'll get some pictures taken of what I did to show this.
 
Here are four pics I took today of how I have built the lower hull on my Stargazer model. They go from left to right showing the lower/upper hull grafting I mentioned in my last post, the vacform lower hull cut out and a sheet of .060 styrene added inside the lower hull for strength and to glue the parts I made to it. The third pic is a mockup of how they fit, and pic 4 is a mockup with the other parts placed on to show how they look. I still need to cut out the openings for the two Orguss parts on either side of the lower hull. I will be adding the 4 small doors or vents on the underside of the lower hull as the ones that are vacform kit are too far to the stern as compared to the Ready Room Stargazer model.
 
Nice to have you back stevielewis and your hull is looking great. You have really improved it by correcting the hangar doors around the edge and preserving those extra saucer rings.
 
Thanks, Nighteyes. Its good to be back with you all again. And thanks for the comments about my build. I'll get some better pics taken as I can see these are a little fuzzy looking and some detail is lost or not seen clear enough. I am adding a little detail to the doors around the sides to give the hull some depth, by adding a rectangle of styrene with the door size cut out and gluing the rectangle inside the hull. Then the "hanger door" will be glued to that. I know its a little more detail added, but like everyone here has mention, all our builds will be slightly different from the others. :) In fact, my build was started by someone else. I bought the kit online and I'm using the parts we all identified for this build. The person who started this build painted on a base coat before cutting the parts out of the sheet styrene, so there is some "grayish" basecoat paint you see on my build in the pictures that I did not add.
 
Bring it on stevielewis! I enjoy your updates to this thread better than mine. You are so much farther along.

I'm curious about the textured styrene sheet added to the ready room model. Is it angled like HO scale house siding, and more like tiny angled louvers? Or maybe just the flat stuff with parallel grooves?
 
It looks to me like its angled siding texture, like shingles on a building, not the roof, but the siding. It appears that even the bay doors along the side of the main hull use the same texture.

I'm using a second vacuform Constellation for small detail items similar to the "siding" texture you mentioned. In case you haven't noticed on the ready room build, all the "bay doors" on the upper surface of the main hull "sit" on the hull. They are not recessed like the vacuform model has them. I cut those out on my build and added plain sheet styrene to the openings. I'll glue the "doors" back in place once I have all the top side upper hull parts added, as I'm going to cut out the vacuformed Enterprise upper hull and add the more solid upper hull from the Enterprise kit in its place, similar to what I did on the lower side of the main hull. A lotta work, but will be much stronger when finished.
 
Hi I also doing a Stargazer build but not the ready room one..

may you have a look on my Thread in the GENERAL Modeling section...

I have some Question about the surzer Section windows near the A and B DECK
are you sure they have to be there...

Do you have any Idea were we can get nice Aztec color templets??

And have pics of the screen used model to share .

All the best Rewen
 
cmd.rewen said:
I have some Question about the surzer Section windows near the A and B DECK
are you sure they have to be there...
Click to expand...

I'm not sure which windows you are refering to, Rewen. If you mean the ones which are on my build, showing the lower hull, the 12 windows just along the edge of the B/C deck have been filled in using clear styrene rod. Once I glue the B/C deck in place, those windows will be covered over and will not be seen. I hope that answers that question.
 
Hijack on... stevielewis you are always welcome in this thread but I would also post the heck out of a build thread of yours.

cmd.rewen, I am also not as familiar with the starship terminology. I have a few photos of the studio model which I think is the look you are after and those 12 windows are not present. I think the B/C deck part was grafted to a saucer underside of the ready room version and those windows were hidden under some filler. I found your thread and your build looks great. Where are you guys finding these vac kits?
 
The Vac kit can be found on the "Bay" under Star Trek models. You may have to look through 30 - 50 pages, but it can be found for a resonable price. I was lucky that a seller had "two" complete Stargazer Constellation kits he was selling, and I bought them both, as they had two complete resin upgrade kits from Don's Light & Magic included, plus his collection of Stargazer reference materials! So now I have enough parts and pieces to make the Ready Room model as well as the studio model. :)
 
Currently working on the upper hull piece. I have removed the vacform Enterprise hull section and made the reinforcement piece from .060 styrene that will be glued to the underside of the upper hull piece. Once that has cured throughly, I'll attach the Refit kit upper hull to the Stargazer vacform upper hull. Hopefully better pics with that part of the build as well.
 
I haven't got as far as I had hoped since my last post. I decided that I would remove much of the detail that was cast on the vacform upper hull surface that is not accurate for this model. I'm still deciding if I want to remove the cast-in warp pylons and their associated detailing, and fill in their voids with sheet styrene and add the warp pylons from the Enterprise kit. It's a lot of extra work, but after reading through some of the more advanced SS builds on this site, I have the urge to try it. It's just plastic. If I goof up, I can start over...unless it's a really bad goof up... :lol
 
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