The Big Reveal!
As of writing this I’ve been a Dad for 2 months now! And it’s been both exhausting and amazing at the same time. Exhausting because he’s up pretty much every 2 to 3 hours at night, but amazing because I’ve also gotten really good at changing a diaper with my eyes closed! Just kidding, it’s been amazing because he’s amazing. And I can’t wait to see the little guy he grows into. Which seems to be happening faster than I would have ever guessed!
I could continue to talk about him for hours, but that’s not the reason you’re here reading this blog. You’re here because you want to see this model all completed! I’m putting together a big YouTube video right now for the old 1701-A, but in the mean time I wanted to also put up some pictures I took over the weekend. I did my best to take some really nice pictures to show you all, but take my word for it…they just don’t do this ship justice.
It’s by no means a perfect build, there are imperfections here and there that I actually really love. But it’s still extremely impressive in person and I hope, if you haven’t already, that you build one for yourself so you can see what I’m talking about! It’s a beautiful ship, was a blast to build with my wife (the Decal Queen) over the past 10 months, and really ties the home office together 🙂
Hate moving pictures? Well also check out the stills I took below and keep an eye out for the special dedication plaque I made for our son James! Every James needs a Starship, so it seemed only right 🙂
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!