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Hmmm, I reckon there's a student somewhere who may pick up on this phenomenon and theorise perhaps a planet inhabited by our missing pieces, a la Veet Voojagig in HHGTTG about the missing biros and the biro planet!

Instrument Assembly: Finally it's time to put some of these pieces together. Firstly a slight heart in mouth moment when I realised that the smaller greebled lens cover on the imaging camera had gone missing. The 1.5mm one. Miraculously I found it on the floor, undamaged! So once that was...

Greebling 2d: IRIS instrument itself: Adding the collector in front of the mirror and the shroud around it all. I planned to build the collector from a circle of card on the mirror, the mount column, an inverted cone, then a curved triangle and 2 more circular layers to build at least something...

Greebling 2c: Spectrometer Assembly. From the photographs earlier and from the line drawing of Voyager in the model's instructions, it's clear that there are lots of interpretations. I chose to go for the general shape and connection to the instrument boom of this: With the IRIS looking...

Greebling 2b: Imaging camera: This was asking for some lens hoods to make it more realistic. Cut, coloured and rolled a couple of rings from normal 80gsm paper, the smaller one is only 1.5mm diameter, rolled round a needle. A quick dip on a smear of CA glue and they're on, really helps to...

Greebling 2: Instruments: I want to add a few details to some of the instruments, especially the photopolarimeter and the imaging gear beyond just the clear glue applied to the lens areas. Researching 70s technology you realise just how few photographs exist of the original working spacecraft...

I guess my first greeble was actually opening up the instrument truss, detailed earlier, but discounting that one ... Greebling 1: RTG fins: It's apparent that this is composed of 3 separate sections, so the most obvious change was to cut out small areas to make the fins look like 3 distinct units.

Here's a taster of what's coming up ... Greebling: Having never heard this term before and having learned what it means on this forum when I joined recently, I thought I could have a go at changing a few details ...

To be honest, I'm surprising myself, having not done much modelling in either card or plastic for a very long time. Perhaps having done a couple of decades of DIY around the house has been preparing me!

Need to keep the thread up to date with progress ... RTG Truss: I'm back trying to solve/interpret the instructions for the RTG truss. I'm going to show a fair bit of detail and explanation in case anyone else is building this model. However, I must say that although I think I've found a...

Yes, a nice discovery. It does stick to parts eventually if you leave them on it for long, but if the glue on the greaseproof paper is wet, it's fairly forgiving for a while. And yes, the Vallejo Matt Varnish works great, thanks :)

Thank you! Thinking of having a go at one of your TIE variations next maybe, but must stay disciplined and finish this first before making a final decision on what's next

Nooooooooooo! ... ... ... Well ... maybe one day! I had been eyeing up the 2001 space station as well over the last few weeks but have decided my skills aren't there yet, but again, perhaps one day. It does look amazing!

Instrument Truss: I'm back! Did some work at the weekend ... I previously posted a picture of the instrument truss as printed from the file. The gaps between the latticework are filled in with grey to reduce the effect. However, having been advised by Zathros (I listen to you Zathros ;)) to...

Congratulations to all the winners! It's great to see so many absolutely superb models and look at the build threads to see how they grew and evolved. And they motivate us mere mortals wherever we are on our modelling journeys to stretch ourselves and strive to improve in our own endeavours...

Instruments and Instrument Truss: Here are all the instruments for the opposite side to the RTG. They look reasonably sized don't they? They're not! Most are small and some are very small! :) This is the Cosmic Ray Subsystem. The underneath flaps needed a tighter angle in order for the back...

I've put the trusses on pause for a few days while I experiment with strengthening them all with either Superglue (UK name for Crazy Glue I think?) or the UV-activated glue, and then cover with matte black paint or matte varnish (ordered, arrives in a few days), as advised by you all above...

Fab! My first bottle of this arrived this afternoon - put it straight to good use repairing a broken strut on one of the instruments. Worked perfectly, thanks. I will look to apply it to all the struts on the model before it's finished. As it dries glossy, is there any way to make it matte...

Now to the most difficult section so far ... the Trusses! Does anyone know anyone who has built this model before, who I could ask a little advice from? I've been wrestling with the 2 parts of the Truss that hold the magnetometer and the RTG for hours now, including printing off double sized...

Radio-isotope Thermoelectric Generator: Folding and gluing the fins is fun! Requires patience - improvising clamping along their length off the end of the cutting matt/table! Hint: Folding the valley folds fully before gluing makes it easier to access the mountain folds which you glue together...