Star Trek in 1/1000

DarthDuck

DarthDuck

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Getting back to an ST project inspired by a ship only seen at that time in a Ships of the Line Calendar.

The nacelles each hold electronics for a ten LED "chaser" circuit to be seen behind the Bussard domes. The ship alos has blinking nav-lights and a lit bridge, rear "hanger" beacon and sensor dome. The stand carries the power while the base hides a microswitch, allowing the craft to be removable.

Progress to follow.
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Same here. I'm wondering if this could be the Conny from this years (2009) calendar (December)?
 
Jayshum said:
Same here. I'm wondering if this could be the Conny from this years (2009) calendar (December)?
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Nope, the calendar I'm basing it from goes back some years now. The bad thing is I fell in love with at first sight and started it right then! The odd thing is that I haven't seen one done yet and mine has layed dormant long enough to have actually been misplaced and only found again by "luck"?:rolleyes

Hint: It's a Connie kitbash but no longer a Connie itself.:angel
 
Kang said:
Can I ask for a link to the ship picture?
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That would ruin my "unveiling"?
AFAIK it still hasn't been turned into a model from the conceptual artwork and I started this one years ago now?
You'll see this one soon.:cool
 
Thanks Jayshum. I'll get a link to the calendar shot too, soon.

Continuing with some refinements I cut the lil 'indentions' that flank the nose up front. Oddly, there are more than one version of the picture which made it into the Hard Cover SOTL calendar compilation. One has these indentations while another does not, showing flat faced panels? I chose the one published in the book for some added visual interest.

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The Polar Lights Enterprise TOS has several bridge domes to choose from but the Bonaventure has what I'll call the 'Reliant or refit' style extended bridge with dome. Started out by laminating some styrene together to get a big enough block to carve the overall shape from. Also turned down the smooth top bridge dome kit piece to fit within it.

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Jayshum said:
You were in a calendar?! (joke) :p


Great progress, keep the pictures coming! I'm excited to not only see the model, but the picture it's based off of (I love SotL).
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Here's a link that was shared with me but oddly it has a slightly different treatment on some of the front end features when compared to the hardcover SOTL compilation book?

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Thank you gents. I appreciate the motivating words.

And moving towards turning on the lights here are the some of the components getting stuffed into the 1/1000 ship. There are 10 LED chasers that go into each nacelle and then the timer for the blinking navlights as well as the color shifting LED up behind the deflector. The LEDs for navlights, hangar bay dome light, bridge and sensor domes are already buried within the model.

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