Battle starship

Yes, Tom-san, that's amazing!

Hello, Jedimichael-san. Nice to see you back on.
Actually I don't have my PC now. I'm using a Tablet but it not so good for me to use for this thread to post pics up.
Today, I'm using my daughters PC.

Here are some progress.

I was trying to make some radar dishes since yesterday.

I drilled some holes on a hard wooden plate (actually it is an old cutting board) with a drill like this.
I fixed this drill with a grinder many years ago for my first model.

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I made these smaller aluminum disk with a hole puncher for leather craft.
I cut out the larger one with ordinary scissors and trimmed it with router.

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And I pressed it in the hole.

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That was so easy.

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Then I had to make some radar receptor antenna somehow.
Several ideas had come up and I took this way.

I used a stripped copper lead wire.
Cut it in a appropriate length and stick them into a little hole on a wooden plate like this.

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And soldered the basement.

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Pick up and trimmed.

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That was easy and quick.

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They are not Solar Cooker. Radars!

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Put then on a fixture.

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Maybe it will fit here.

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This is all I can show you this time.
Bit boring but thanks for looking.

Have a happy weekend.

Katsu
 
One comment from a technical perspective, the dishes you have created are more a satellite receiver or communications style dish. As a radar, in a fixed position as you appear to have have fitted them they would be very limited with a narrow field of detection. For a radar I would look at more of a phased-array style system which can have quite discrete appearance.

I will say that your method of making dishes and struts is impressive and I may need to to steal those techniques myself for some future projects. Keep up the excellent work.
 
Never boring to see a Master at work Katsu-san..

Thank you very much. I will post soon.

One comment from a technical perspective, the dishes you have created are more a satellite receiver or communications style dish. As a radar, in a fixed position as you appear to have have fitted them they would be very limited with a narrow field of detection. For a radar I would look at more of a phased-array style system which can have quite discrete appearance.

I will say that your method of making dishes and struts is impressive and I may need to to steal those techniques myself for some future projects. Keep up the excellent work.

OMG! So, I made many sat TV antenna:facepalm.
At least, they won't miss the Bigbang theory.
Thank you very much for the kind comment.
I should have learn more.

Katsu
 
OMG! So, I made many sat TV antenna:facepalm.
At least, they won't miss the Bigbang theory.
Thank you very much for the kind comment.
I should have learn more.

Katsu
I am a communications tech by trade so work with a variety of different antennae. Didn't want you to go to all that effort and have someone point it out when it was all finished and painted up.

You could always ditch the struts, turn the dishes around so the dome faces outwards and call them sensors domes, that way all the hard work doesn't have to go to waste.
 
Some progress

Finished the mid section structure and I'm working on decks and ceilings.

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The circular open space in the middle of the mid section will be for the CCIC (Core of Combat Information Center). I'm thinking that will be looks like a small NCC1701 contained in this section.

The aft section structure will be added to this mid structure later which contains a hanger/dock. Hanger deck will not have hard deck floor. The docking ship will be hanging in the space literally.


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All these parts are not glued at this moment. Just test fitting.
To be adjusted, filled the gaps, glued and painted and be placed a little later.

Thanks for looking.

katsu
 
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Hi, my friend.

Nothing special. Just a backside of a Exacto knife or something you use for plastic.
And with a ruler and some templates of circles and squares.

Katsu
 
Very cool ! :thumbsup

I love your uses of different materials and the back story to set up this build.....

I'm always learning little tricks every time I watch.

This is going to be an epic build !
 
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