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.