Too Busy for a Video, So How About Some Pictures?
I’ll probably talk about these pictures in my next video update, but why wait?!
Finally got this sucker done! This is the Arboretum pre-tree planting.
The saucer and bridge are officially painted and DONE…mostly. Still have a few places that I need to clean up, but I’ll be waiting until the rest of the ship is assembled and then just work my way over the ship cleaning up edges and finishing things off.
A close up of the sensor array on the bottom of the saucer section. A prime example of a place I’ll need to come back to and clean up after everything is fully assembled. But for now, it’s time to move on.
Clean up aside, it sure looks pretty don’t it?
Video will be coming soon talking more about all of the work done here, as well as the next big job. Getting the warp nacelles installed and the secondary fuselage assembled, puttied, and ready to paint! After that, it’s all down hill and the tedious task of cleaning up all the imperfections and getting the Arduino board fully assembled begins.
Stay tuned!
Glad to see you finally plucked up the courage to get started on this beast Doug!
I too was a bit concerned about the aluminum tape shorting things out (well, I will be when I evenually get round to tackling my big E), and have been experimenting with a second layer of tape (insulating this time) on top of the aluminum tape in the areas at risk – might be worth a try?
Going to be building the new PL TOS Enterprise? : )
Nice work so far btw.
Bernie
Hey Bernie! Thanks for the comment!
Ya the foil tape is pretty tricky. It reflects light amazingly and insulates your wires really well but if things get packed tightly, you’ll definitely start see some shorts like I was finding in my saucer. A trick I used was just using the wax paper from the backside of foil tape to kind of “sandwich” the problem areas. It’s a pretty simple trick but it took quite a few times tearing off the misbehaving foil tape to figure that one out, haha.
And ya I can’t wait for the 1/350 TOS Enterprise to get out into the wild. Did you sign up for the 1701 club too? It really looks amazing, especially because of the included lights and motors. No more headaches from Arduino coding! haha. Thanks again for all your help on that too btw!