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Thanks everyone for all the +ve feedback - it's all greatly appreciated! :) Today's work has been the building of the last warbird; I've already covered that in "The Defector" log, so I'll skip it here. The rest has been scraping and nicking fibre optics - not really worthy of a photo log ;).

I've added a shield to the Ent-C:- I found a handy piece of plastic packing with a good shape,punched a hole in it for the fibre optic filament to hold it in place and used a dab of PVA for stability. I then mounted the other warbird from "The Defector" and the cloaked warbird:- I still need...

Revell-Fan must have performed a mind meld -lol Today I was working on cloud cover, as well as smoke coming from the remains of the outpost. I've also placed a flickering yellow LED in a cone inside the globe.It might have been a better idea to do this before gluing the globe to the backdrop...

The cloaked warbird is finished. Using tape hasn't detracted too much from the model; it's probably better than the result I would get by using superglue. The size and shape are close enough to Zosho's that any discrepancy can be put down to the optical distortion of the cloak - that's my excuse...

I'm almost done with the Ent C - just a bit a blackening left to do on the nacelles:- Due to the insets, I've decided against insetting the battle damage on the nacelles as it would've made an already complicated build practically impossible to construct. Zooming in on the photo also shows...

Slow progress today due to mega-fiddly parts:-

Awesome idea! :D I was thinking cotton wool as well, and I have plenty of blue lights. I'll need to build some more warbirds and check whether the design and size are the same - so at least two, but probably four. The Enterprise C is coming along:- For the damage I used a marker for the hull...

Since I'm extremely limited in the amount of space I have I do quite a bit of recycling of diorama ships. Some dioramas are left intact (eg The Battle of Wolf 359", "The Tholian Web), but others will be reused. I'll be recycling the Enterprise D and the Klingon birds of prey from "The Defector"...

That explains why I didn't recognise it - I've only seen one or two episodes of TAS and that was well over 30 years ago!

Looks like a bizarre Star Trek mating ritual??? lol

@bgt01 lmao :D. I used my ACME Shrink-O-Matic and put them all in the Gr'Oth ;) @D-WHALE Thank-you Marco :) - looks like I'll need to hit the cone tips with my red pen! I've shown close-ups of the Enterprise elsewhere, so here's a close-up of the Gr'Oth:- I cut up a cardboard box and pasted...

Put everything together and the result is a Deep Space K-7 measuring 2 1/2" (63mm) in width:-

The cone on top of the central column and the arms for the other three modules came next:- These were wrapped around a needle to curve them into tubes - even a cocktail stick was far too big! I then started on the outer modules:- This is probably the lower limit of the size I could build the...

I'm going to skip the blow-by-blow account of the building of the USS Enterprise and the Gr'Oth - build logs for Constitution and D7 class ships are presented in other posts.Once again I'm using Glen Jupp's version of the Enterprise and I'm using Spaceagent-9's design for the Gr'Oth. The design...

@zathros lol - I have loads of time on my hands - I can't work because I'm not quite 100% sane ;). I understand perfectly what you mean with your background description - if I need to build any more 17km probes I'll keep it in mind - lol. Thank-you yet again for all the compliments :D @Rhaven...

@spaceagent-9 Aww shucks Jim [blush] thank-you :) I'll be starting on The Trouble With Tribbles tomorrow. I have your D7, Glen Jupp's Enterprise and D-Whale's K-7 printed off and close enough to being in scale for my needs.

I spent an hour on the probe today. The most fiddly bit was the ball since I had to cut loads of tiny, tiny rhomboid bits of blue coloured card and stick them on a globe of blu tac:- I rolled a tube of card and cut a hole in it near the front before running some white thread through the ball...

@spaceagent-9 lmao - aye, it's the Forth Bridge next! ;) The bridge is finished! The bop is finished! The diorama is... ...not finished ;). I didn't take ant photos of the bridge - that can wait until the bop is suspended from it and the probe is added. Apart from anything else, the Golden...

@spaceagent-9 Thank-you very, very much Jim :D I've finally finished one side of the bridge! There's a lot of extra wraparounds to hold it in place just now; they'll come off when I have the other side running parallel. I'm going to try attaching the thread directly to the other side. I thought...

@Rhaven Blaack It's mental! lol I have a horrible feeling that the wire I'm using for the main cable is going to turn into a spring when I cut all the tape tomorrow - that'll be fun ;) @spaceagent-9 I've already connected the two LEDs in a wee bullet. I was thinking of encasing it in a black...