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Old 08-19-2009, 11:26 AM
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U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (TOS) in 1:1700

Finally tackling the one that started it all. Going all out using the vectorized update to Ron's great model (was it Mike Hungerford that did it? I forget). At 1:1700 I was afraid this would be quite tedious, but it's not too bad if you take your time. Following the instructions on this one, and its going quite smoothly.

Start with the secondary hull aft:




And a size comparison to my 1701-A test fit:



Next was the bridge. This is very fiddly at this scale. I cut off all the joining tabs for this and used edge-gluing primarily, with a few joining tabs underneath:



And then onto the primary hull. Again I used edge-gluing for this, which came out nice and clean for me, with the exception of the top of the hull because I had tried the tabs first, then cut them off when it didn't line up right:



(The N in NCC does line up correctly when viewed from above or the starboard side - the the scale is so small that even the thickness of 65lb card is enough to make it look misaligned when viewed at an angle! )

More to come! :D
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