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Re: Enterprise NX-01 Refit


Thanks Q! Yes. It is a LOT of work!


Hope everyone had a nice Christmas holiday! Here's the latest...


I installed the clear inserts (previously tinted blue) into the inboard halves of the warp nacelles with CA.

I also removed the locator pin and socket from the front of each nacelle half to allow for mounting a bussard LED.

The outer halves were light blocked after filling in the sizeable gaps on the top and bottom of the inserts with putty:


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IMG_6162 by trekriffic, on Flickr


AVES was packed in around the clear blue grills:


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IMG_6167 by trekriffic, on Flickr


The stand was constructed...


I used hollow brass tubing in place of the solid metal rod from the kit.

This required a slight enlargement of the mounting tube in the base which I did using a drill press.

Wires from a vinyl rubber jacketed female power jack (provided with the power supply I got from Modeler's Brand Hobby Supplies:http://modelersbrand.com/) were fed up into the tube from below then the jack was mounted in a hole drilled and filed out in the base using AVES:


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IMG_6163 by trekriffic, on Flickr


The base with a size K power plug atop the tube. I'll need to sand around the power coupling (may need some more puttying first) then paint it black.

I may try the splatter technique too with some white paint I saw another modeller use with his domed base.

His was done by accident but it turned out looking like the base had stars on it which was a pretty neat effect:


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IMG_6164 by trekriffic, on Flickr


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IMG_6166 by trekriffic, on Flickr


The brass tube had to be filed out a bit to accomodate the plug but that was no big deal.

Care had to be taken with the plug to make sure the center contact didn't touch the outer brass tube and create a short circuit.

Once I was sure I had a good circuit after soldering the wires I glued it in with 5-minute epoxy.


The secondary hull shown masked off and plugged onto the stand after puttying with AVES, sanding, then priming and light blocking with Testors flat black.

You can't see the blue deflector dish ring glowing with the mask on but, trust me, the effect is really cool:


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IMG_6165 by trekriffic, on Flickr


I fashioned a translucent bridge dome by slicing off the top of one of the unused kit bussard domes.

I'm using the domes with the holes in the center for the bussard spikes so had 2 domes without holes (for the original NX-01 version) I could put to other uses.

I must have dropped this sucker on the floor about a half dozen times while sanding it.

The dome was sprayed with white Tamiya Fine Surface Primer to give it a nice even glow when lit:


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IMG_6168 by trekriffic, on Flickr


The top of the solid kit dome was glued on after I sanded the top of it flat to make it the base of the new bridge dome and drilled a hole thru the center to allow light to shine thru from below.

I masked over the hole with Tamiya tape prior to priming and light blocking the saucer exterior:


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IMG_6170 by trekriffic, on Flickr


Take care everyone!


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