Basic Assembly Part 1

After my mammoth scribing session I was left with a pile of flat parts.....

The main lower hull parts were glued together at the bulkheads to establish the correct angle. The seam was then glued and reinforced in the inside with some stretched sprue melted into the seam with liquid glue.

The internal bulkheads were reinforced with some styrene angle glued into place.

Additional plating was then cut out and added to the lower hull.

Here you can see the upper hull parts, the lower reactor spine parts and the rear angled engine bulkheads all cut from various thicknesses of styrene sheet.

The reactor spine is made up of 2 parts that sandwich together, the upper part being scribed with panel detail.

Here you can see some upper hull detail panels and the main parts of the large hanger bay for the underside.

The extension plating around the hull trench area was made from 2mm wide by 0.5mm thick styrene strip. This was carefully measured and fit to the hull edge shape and glued in place.

Stay tuned for more.

Cheers,