![]() It also required me to build another new fuselage for test fitting the final parts. It took the better part of a day to redo all of the skins and the inner supports. This was important for the final fit of the warp engines, and for the clamping straps. It was a bit over an 1/8th of an inch too deep in the lower sections, so I had to put everything on a diet, and whittle it down. Up to this point, all of the larger assemblies had attached to the upper parts of the hull, but checking the fuselage against the original, and against the AMT plastic kit, showed that my version was "pot-bellied". Modeling the clamping strap and the warp engines revealed an issue that required reworking every section of the model I'd already designed. So much so that the collected test builds of all these different sections filled a large bankers box by the time I finished the project. In the end, my own version of the bussard uses Ninjatoes' squared edges, but with corrections to the shape and a few changes to the assembly of the forward ends of the warp engines, which make the hard edges stand out a bit less.Ī few of the "unsuccessful" test builds.Īs the redesign progressed, I was constantly building and rebuilding the different sections of the model, as each new change had to be tested for the best fit. Even if I worked in CAD or a 3D modeling program to design it, the actual parts would be horrendous to build. The problem with rounding the bussard is that the shape of the prototype is a tight, flattened sphere that fades into a rectangle where it meets the hull plating. ![]() I played with the idea quite a bit, and looked at Paragon's repaint of the runabout, where he had eased the corner with a multi-pieced bussard, but I had a really hard time building his version. During the design and test building, I was asked by another modeler if I had rounded off the bussard collectors on the warp engines, as Ninjatoes' original design had a sharp corner at the top and bottom edges of the bussards. They served as a means of transport for the crew of the fictional space station. Once that was done, I moved on to the warp engines. Runabouts (' Danube-class ' vessels) are a fictional class of small, multi-purpose starships appearing in the Star Trek science-fiction franchise, primarily the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which aired on syndicated television between 19. ![]()
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