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#21 Post by tay666 »

This is looking so cool!
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Here’s a short video starting with a lovely facial expression on my part… yep… I may look old but my heart is still young…


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USS Voyager WIP Vid - 004 by Steve J, on Flickr

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#23 Post by Heavy Metal Spike »

Thanks for the uploads Steve - REALLY enjoying this (as I do with ALL your kindly shared WIP's).


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#24 Post by Trekkriffic »

Carrying right along...

Lower EVA hatch in trench:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 037 by Steve J, on Flickr

Tamiya tape and CA glue for attaching lower EVA hatch PE:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 038 by Steve J, on Flickr

Tape applied for alignment of EVA hatch right trench wall brass panels:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 039 by Steve J, on Flickr

Lower EVA hatch brass photo-etch:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 040 by Steve J, on Flickr

Hole drilled for insertion of fiber optic strand above forward windows in upper saucer hull.
The fiber will look like a spotlight to light the up the ship’s upper saucer name and registry:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 041 by Steve J, on Flickr

Hole for “spotlight” fiber optic strand viewed from inside:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 042 by Steve J, on Flickr

Window frame and landing strut cover PE installed in secondary hull:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 043 by Steve J, on Flickr

Aft hull section and wings for nacelles, Will need to rig for wiring as the engines will be lit:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 045 by Steve J, on Flickr

Impulse engine intake vents drilled and filed out:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 046 by Steve J, on Flickr

View from inside after opening up impulse vents and cleaning out any plastic debris:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 048 by Steve J, on Flickr

Next... a bit of serendipity...

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#25 Post by Heavy Metal Spike »

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Coming along nicely - as always, mind blown by your patience, planning, and talent.

  • Trekkriffic wrote: . . . Next... a bit of serendipity...

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#26 Post by barad_dur »

Great progress - Those spotlights always look really cool when lit up !

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Impulse exhaust vents looking very clean:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 047 by Steve J, on Flickr

One strut’s exhaust impulse engine vents are done:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 049 by Steve J, on Flickr

One strut almost done as far as drilling and carving vents. Still need to open up the intake vent:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 050 by Steve J, on Flickr

Nacelle wing struts and impulse engines. All intake and exhaust vents were brushed with Mister Surfacer.
All the plastic removal I did turned out great after a coat of what is basically thick primer IIDSSM:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 052 by Steve J, on Flickr

Options for the re-positional strut hinge pins shown to the right.
Whichever option I choose will be glued into the wing strut to allow for wiring around a moving hinge joint.
I like the idea of brass tubing but, as with plastic I would need to drill a hole thru one side to feed the wires thru.
Not easy to do with a brass tube but doable.
Plastic hollow tubing would be easier to drill thru but does not have the strength of brass.
I also need to test them in place to see how they play with the raised positioning strip along the secondary hull strut insertion slot.
The strut has a tab shaped to snap into position against another tab in the hull when forced upward for when the Voyager goes to warp.

I drilled and carved out the impulse engine intake vents and glued the Paragrafix PE grill in place from the inside. Then I gave them and the exhaust vents a brushing with Mister Surfacer 1000:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 051 by Steve J, on Flickr

Funny, I didn't notice until uploading this photo how the photo-etch matches my garage door window frames.

Serendipity. Hah!

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#28 Post by barad_dur »

Beautiful , clean and sharp work !

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Trekkriffic wrote: Funny, I didn't notice until uploading this photo how the photo-etch matches my garage door window frames.

Serendipity. Hah!
It's one of the reasons I always take WIP photos of my kits. The number of times I see something in the photo I didn't notice with my actual eyes is stagering.


Love watching your work progress.
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tay666 wrote:
Trekkriffic wrote: Funny, I didn't notice until uploading this photo how the photo-etch matches my garage door window frames.

Serendipity. Hah!
It's one of the reasons I always take WIP photos of my kits. The number of times I see something in the photo I didn't notice with my actual eyes is stagering.


Love watching your work progress.
Oh yeah, I know what you mean. I used to build and detail so it looked good enough to the naked eye.
Now I’ve had to up my game; I build for my DSLR camera now. It sees EVERYTHING! :D

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Need to drill the hole for the aft nacelle formation lights. I'll be using fiber optic strands slaved to red and green LEDs in the nacelles. I also need to size the type of blue LED tape I'll use. I have some really small and thin double density tape I will probably go with, if I can somehow solder the wire leads to it:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 053 by Steve J, on Flickr

I also need to work out how the wiring from the nacelles and impulse engines will feed thru the hinge joint as it traverses the strut into the secondary hull. I have a pretty good idea so will need to try them out.

Nacelle wing halves. Maskol (purple liquid rubber) brushed over areas I want left unpainted, mostly for gluing with Testors styrene cement:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 056 by Steve J, on Flickr

Upper saucer interior lightblocked with black Krylon. Lower saucer sprayed with Krylon gloss white after lightblocking.
The gloss white will bounce light around the interior evenly:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 057 by Steve J, on Flickr

Main part interior surfaces are all sprayed with Krylon gloss white:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 059 by Steve J, on Flickr

X marks the spot. According to Rick Sternbach, the upper nacelle bussard housings did not have a raised panel down the middle on either the studio or CGI models so I will have to remove them using files, sanding sticks, etc:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 060 by Steve J, on Flickr

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 061 by Steve J, on Flickr

Plastic removal. One down, one to go:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 062 by Steve J, on Flickr

Masking large window ports for brushing with Mister Surfacer 1000. Prior to this I added structural supports to the window frames using white .010 styrene strip:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 063 by Steve J, on Flickr

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Working with putty and thick primer before primer spray coat ...

AVES epoxy putty was used to fill in any gaps in the Captain's ready room and conference room window frames:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 064 by Steve J, on Flickr

Super detailing going on:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 065 by Steve J, on Flickr

Upper saucer after brushing photo-etch and adjacent plastic surfaces with Mister Surfacer 1000:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 066 by Steve J, on Flickr

Bridge decks 1 and 2 after brushing with Mister Surfacer.
I also sanded off the little nit on the roof of the bridge leaving it flat:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 067 by Steve J, on Flickr

After Mister Surface brushed on:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 068 by Steve J, on Flickr

Nice angle:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 071 by Steve J, on Flickr

Docking port recesses filled in with styrene strip around brass photo-etch hatches:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 073 by Steve J, on Flickr

Bow brass docking port recess framed with plastic strips:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 074 by Steve J, on Flickr

The rear Deck 2 EVA port PE sat proud of the hull when it should have been recessed.
To correct this I first added AVES epoxy putty to the hull to level it with the hatch, I spent over an hour sculpting and shaping the putty using my dental tools:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 075 by Steve J, on Flickr

To finish the upper EVA hatch detailing I glued a piece of .020 styrene strip to frame the hatch and give it a recessed appearance.
Next I’ll use AVES to putty around the strip and make a smooth transition to the hull:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 078 by Steve J, on Flickr

Coming up... working on wing hinges and fixing the rim with strip styrene,

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#33 Post by Heavy Metal Spike »

SOOOOOO much patience and talent.

Thanks for the update.

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#34 Post by tay666 »

Looking good.
And you are correct, that one photo is a really nice angle.
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Here we go...

I used my hobby dremel to drill a hole thru the brass tube large enough to pass two pairs of 30 AWG Kynar wire
from the nacelle and impulse engine thru the tube and out the end into the aft hull section and power:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 079 by Steve J, on Flickr

Port wing hinge pin will be glued into the wing's center section of the hinge but not the outer sections of the hinge:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 080 by Steve J, on Flickr

Time for some rimming...

All sensor pallets around the rim will be framed to have rounded corners instead of the kit molded box ends.
The three pod hatches will also be framed to give them a slightly recessed appearance, which is truer to the studio model rather than the CGI images which show the hatches as level with the rim:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 082 by Steve J, on Flickr

I used a leather punch to make the rounded ends of the sensor pallets in 1/4" wide .010 Evergreen strip:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 083 by Steve J, on Flickr

All Evergreen strip has been glued to the upper and lower saucer rim halves using Testors tube glue.
Next I will putty the top of the strip with AVES before sanding the upper rim smooth again.
No seams will be tolerated. Final puttying and sanding won't happen until the hull halves are glued together after I wire up the lights:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 084 by Steve J, on Flickr

Last for today but not least...

I used Evergreen rod to add these structural reinforcement (?) beams to the exterior of deck 2 like on the studio model:

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USS Voyager WIP Img - 081 by Steve J, on Flickr

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#36 Post by barad_dur »

The guys who run the Wonderfest model contest really should invite you to be a judge of the space ship category.

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#37 Post by tay666 »

Looks like a good solution for wiring the wings with that hinge.
And as always, I am in awe with the amount of tiny details you continually add and refine.
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barad_dur wrote:The guys who run the Wonderfest model contest really should invite you to be a judge of the space ship category.
One of these years I’m going to make the trek and go to Wonderfest. It would be great to meet all my modeling compatriots and other sci-fi fans.

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tay666 wrote:Looks like a good solution for wiring the wings with that hinge.
And as always, I am in awe with the amount of tiny details you continually add and refine.
Thanks! Sometimes being so meticulous can be a real pain. I just spent 2 hours redoing the forward photorp launchers after cutting them open earlier today. I’d glued in two pieces of clear red plastic so they’d light up but wasn’t happy with how they looked so spent my evening scraping and filing away plastic trying to fix them which, of course, only made things worse.
To top it off, I’d already glued them into the photorp launchers using super glue. :-k
Finally, I gave up trying to fix them and just ground out the red plastic bits using my hobby “dremel”.
Then I sliced away more of the frame expanding the size of the opening and squaring it up.
Once that was done I glued a short .010 thick piece of Evergreen strip into the bottom of each opening to make it look more rectangular. I’ll sand them flush tomorrow and apply a little putty to fill any gaps.
Them I’ll have to decide how I want to fill the opening- red plastic or leave them open with a red LED inside.
That might look pretty cool to have a short tunnel with a red glow from inside.
So, as most good modellers know, redoing/correcting something usually ends up being an improvement over the original as was the case here fortunately.
Anyway, those were the “tiny details” of my day. :-({|=
I hope yours was more productive than mine.

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#40 Post by Trekkriffic »

Yet another progressreport video …

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USS Voyager WIP Vid - 005 by Steve J, on Flickr

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