Dirk's NCC-1017 USS Constellation From The Doomsday Machine

[JamesPerrin]

Looking a lot more hopeful now that you’ve cleaned up the parts

[AndrewR]

That already looks much better.

[iggie]

Looking on the bright side, you should be able to make a slightly smaller Enterprise from all the sanding dust...

[RayS]

What a great project Dirk, looking forward to seeing how it finishes up.

I only just finished watching all the TOS episodes recently on Netflix, there were some good ones there I had never seen before.

My fave Enterprise is the Motion picture refit, which I have a sealed kit waiting for my attention, I did build one when it was originally released all those years ago and it was not given any justice (or paint).

[Dirkpitt289]

After all this sanding I was dying to get to some scratch building. I decided to start with the damage done to the starboard warp pylon. In the episode you can see that part of the pylon was missing and you could see the exposed Jeffery's tube and other internal conduits.





I used some Evergreen styrene cut to size, and chopped up some of the edges to to simulate damage





Thanks for looking, till next time, B - Strong!

[Dirkpitt289]

Looking a lot more hopeful now that you’ve cleaned up the parts

Yeah, it makes a difference.

[Dirkpitt289]

That already looks much better.

Thanks, Andrew

[Dirkpitt289]

Looking on the bright side, you should be able to make a slightly smaller Enterprise from all the sanding dust...

Smaller, yes, but much much heavier. Funny how physics works...

All this bondo "makeup" gives me flashbacks to Mimi from the Drew Carey show

[Dirkpitt289]

What a great project Dirk, looking forward to seeing how it finishes up.

I only just finished watching all the TOS episodes recently on Netflix, there were some good ones there I had never seen before.

My fave Enterprise is the Motion picture refit, which I have a sealed kit waiting for my attention, I did build one when it was originally released all those years ago and it was not given any justice (or paint).

The refit Enterprise is one sexy ship. I have a few in the stash as well.

[Dirkpitt289]

Time to start working on some damage. We are going to start with the starboard (right) engine nacelle, Aft (rear) end



Using a sharpie I marked out the points where I wanted to start dissecting this engine









Time to let the styrene blood fly!







Notice we left the chillers in place





Now we are making some progress.




Stay tuned for more...

[AndrewR]

Looks suitably damaged

[Dirkpitt289]

Looks suitably damaged

Now you can see why I choose to use a glue bomb for this build.

[Dirkpitt289]

Now that we got the warp nacelles prepped its time to add some detail damage. We don't want to just have open holes in the ship. We need to place some detail and other wreckage behind those holes and missing components.



We are going to start with this hole we made just forward of the post stage intercooler. Yup, I looked it up. Its called The Post Stage Intercooler. How do you like that, model building and learning all in one... :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:







Going by some online resources we built the Coil Access Tube and the Warp Propulsion Coils. These were made with a glue stick and some Evergreen Styrene







Before the newly made components get installed I wanted to add a little more detail. What I did was take some material I used to fix my window screens in my house and added bits to simulate some kind of internal support skin. Is it accurate? Who the hell knows its a make believe ship for a make believe TV series but it kinda looks cool and is kinda plausible. We also took a small round metal bit and placed it in the drumel and made some scars to the outside skin of the warp nacelle adding more depth to the build



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How the warp assemble looks in place prior to painting it







Just because I could I added some of that screen material to the back side of the Post Stage Intercooler, again to add more depth and points of interest to the area.











Adding more detail to the aft end of the starboard nacelle. For this I used a glue stick, some Evergreen styrene and solder.



















That's all for now. A little later on we will start working on the forward section of this same nacelle.



Till next time...



B - Strong

[JamesPerrin]

The damage looks convincing.

[Dirkpitt289]

The damage looks convincing.

Thanks, James