Is this runabout tiny enough?

[Kitty]

This runabout i made about 1 year ago.
It's 24.2 mm long and made of thin styrene sheet layers.
I was going for 1:1000, but this handmade one turned out about 1:950.
I made transparent castings of this one with a led cast inside.
After lightproofing the little ships they only had light coming out of the front and side cockpit windows and a faint blue from the warp drive and red from the bussard collectors.
The resistors and batteries were in the base.
Unfortunately i haven't got a picture of those anymore and the 3 lit ships were made for a collegue who started a new job abroad.
Later i made a 3D model on the computer and did testshots on a zcorp and later the final printing on an objet.
BTW that grid is 1 cm, not 1"

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[Junkie]

Wicked, Great job. That's a tiny one too!

 

[Kitty]

I Still have a few pictures of the light testing i did with different kinds of clear and white resin copies i made.
In the last picture you see the clear epoxy hull that shines so bright in the other pictures.


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[elend]

Wow! Veeery tiny!

 

[ScreamingSamuraiStudio]

I would love to try something this small...
but I'm a big time mouth breather..so I'm afraid I'd inhale so many great projects.

 

[elend]

I would love to try something this small...
but I'm a big time mouth breather..so I'm afraid I'd inhale so many great projects.

Don't worry. They come out again, sooner or later.

 

[igor57]

Inhale them! Hell I could not see them! I so admire fine precise small work. And lit up as well! Now that's dedication to one's craft. 8)

 

[Ferris928]

Those are insane!...in a good way.

 

[Backbreaker]

That's dedication, in a small way ;D

Joolz.

 

[djdood]

Very cool stuff kitty.

Were those destined for any particular project, or was they more of a "can I do this, this small?" experiment?

 

[Kitty]

They were just a "i can make a very small runabout and light it - experiment"
I started with 1:1400 scale ,so i could display it with my AMT enterprise-D
It turned out that was just to small, because i cannot do SMD electonics with my deteriorating eye sight, so i tried a little bigger turned out about 1:950 was just lage enough to cast in a 3mm led so i went for that.
After i pulled that off (the runabouts are a tiny bit to high but still look fine) i made a mesh of a runabout on the computer and printed that in 1/1000 scale on an objet since a lot of startrek fans are into 1:1000 scale.
I had a bag full of those things, i do something to them and give them away as small gifts to friends on occasion.
The handmade lit ones i used in a little hangar bay diorama that fit into a cigarett box for a friend and collegue who went abroad last year.

If you want some, i've put them up on shapeways.com.
They are $ 3.51 a piece atm, but they have a minimum order of $25 of any stuff that is for sale there, that's including shipping.
So if you would want only runabouts, you could order 7 of those for $25, or pick some other stuff to fill the minimum order of $25
Any proceeds of the runabouts go to a foundation to buy materials for a workshop that i'm setting up as therapy for people that lost their fine motorskills after accidents and need to practice those.
I was in that boat 15 years ago and it took me 13 years to be able to use my right hand again.