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Next up was making the thrusters on the bottom of the main fuselage. These are gray mattress vents on the studio model. Mine are gray card stock curled into tubes and cut to size, then superglued to bases on 2mm chipboard. I eyeballed these until they were a size that went with the model. These...

THRUSTERS AND FRAMEWORK Finally got some more Hawk time. I started mixing media by using styrene rod to replicate the conical wing details on the top and leading edges. Using the styrene was a natural choice. I did look for a paper or wood option but none came close to the size I needed. I had...

Happy Birthday, @zathros. Hope it's a great one!

This is great! I am fascinated by all the "lost" Star Trek stuff. And I love the "what if" of concept art. I'm glad this didn't replace the Enterprise we know and love, but it's fun to dig into this design. It's on my wish list to try and scratch build my own version of this so I'll be watching...

Glad to see you got things worked out, Ian. Hobbies always take a backseat to "real life." Too bad you didn't have an Eagle cargo pod, but then again we know how it probably would have wound up...(insert sound of explosion here) ;)

Happy Birthday!

SOLAR PANEL REBUILD Attenion Moonbase Alpha! Mark IV Hawk build is active! It is time to make some more progress. I picked up correcting the solar panels. My original design was missing the bottom details on the panels and the base was too wide. Using my X-acto and precision scissors I cut off...

Gongrats, Dan. She's a true showpiece. :Bravo:

This is fantastic! You are going a great job coming up with all this detail on the fly. I also use a lot of chipboard and cardboard for reinforcement. I use a lot of white cover stock (postcards, business cards, book cover) to make small parts like those stairs. It's thicker and sturdier than...

Congrats @Revell-Fan

Dr. Bergman approves!

@Octoman Did you use regular glue to mount the floors. I use a lot of chipboard for strength so I use spray adhesive in light coats. I rarely have any bleed-through as long as I give it long enough to set up...not that I ever get in a rush...:angelic: Liquid type glues out of the bottle always...

Glad I could do my part, @DanBKing :Congrats: Nice work on the model. Going the extra mile with layering is a lot of work and yours is really paying off. Nothing like building a model on top of a model. ;)

That is amazing! And your video is creepy-cool! Very creative.:Bravo:

He's not an architect, he's an "Alpha-tect!" :laughrolling:

Welcome Aboard! Excellent builds. Can't wait to see what else you do.:Bravo:

DISPLAY The final step for me on this trek (see what I did there?) was to create a display base that looked like the scene from “The Galileo Seven” when the Galileo is first seen on Tarsus II. The actual base is an old picture frame with the glass removed. The frame sits face down so the back...

REAR LANDING GEAR The rear landing gear on the actual Galileo is an old aircraft part. It’s basically a plate at the end of a piston. I built mine starting with a white popsicle stick. I colored it gold with a Sharpie, then used my pin vise to hollow out some of the end. For the silver part of...

To make sure everything would be level, I made a “jig” by stacking a book and layers of chipboard until Galileo sat at the height I wanted. I wanted it to sit like it did in the shuttle bay scenes. Again, I used the lines on my cutting mat to keep things square and straight. I put the gear under...

NACELLE LANDING GEAR Galileo has forward landing gear that are semi-circular sections that extend from the bottom of the nacelles. To make these I cut a section of wood dowel using my mitre box. I used the same size dowel that is in the center of the nacelles to make the gear look in scale so...