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Yep, sometimes little and often has to be the recipe! Your TIE designs are fantastic by the way!

Thank you, and I'm so happy to have found such a supporting group of people - your encouragement means a lot:yesyes:

Oh my goodness, what an honour. I'm speechless!

So, having been here a few months now, and having done my first full build, complete with some greebling (https://www.zealotmodels.com/threads/nasa-voyager-1-48-john-jogerst.182727/), I'm very definitely going to be continuing with this new hobby over the long term, despite some challenges. I...

Here's a photo from JJ's template pdf and my interpretation of it. I haven't made the stand, I'm thinking I might let it fly from fishing line from the ceiling ... So in summary it's been a really interesting build. I worked from John Jogerst's template which at this scale was really good. A...

Thank you very much! Not bad for a first "proper" model?

The Finished Article So here are a few photos of the finished article. It's quite difficult to photograph up close and impossible to get everything in focus on a single shot, being so long with the long boom arm.

Thank you so much. Yes it turned out nicely. Some shots of the completed model coming now ...

Final greebling opportunity: Low Field Magnetometer instruments Once the boom was to a decent standard I moved on to the magnetometer instruments themselves. I couldn't find much information about the ones used specifically on Voyager, even fewer genuine photos - most seem to be stylised...

Here are 2 of the 3 sides cut out - lots of tiny triangles! This is where I paused because I was considering cutting these two strips out separately for my original plan. I'm glad I didn't. Next job is to cut out the material on the inside two long lines and fold them before removing the...

Sorry for such a gap between posts. This final piece of the puzzle did take a lot of time complete, amongst other things going on in life (as happens to us all). So I'm going to do a few posts to explain how my attempt at making an improved MAG boom arm went over the next couple of days...

Thank you. Glad you're enjoying the background stuff too. I've learned loads as I've researched building the model which has been a big part of my enjoyment too. :) Quick MAG truss update: 2 triangles cut out, 238 to go:laughrolling: Each triangle requires 6 cuts (2 per line from corner to...

Magnetometer (MAG) boom arm: I've saved this till last ... you'll see why below! There are 2 low-field magnetometers on the Voyager spacecraft. One is midway down the 13m (43 feet) arm and the other is at the far end. How did they get a 13m long boom stored and then deploy it on a compact...

Plasma Wave instrument antennae: These were 10m long. Here's an amazing article shows how they got 10m antennae to extend after deployment. First they form a hollow tube from a long narrow sheet of beryllium copper, and then they unfolded it back into a long thin rectangle, rolled it onto a...

Instrument calibration panel/shunt radiator: This small piece should be plain on the outside (in order to have a flat blank surface for the cameras to calibrate against), and the ribs are on the inside as shown in a picture at this webpage...

Overall result so far ...

Through doing this model I've learned that it's sometimes not easy to work out exactly what things looked like for designing a model, particularly this far back (1970s). A lot of internet photos are of test versions or of the "spare" one they built which wasn't used, and sometimes parts are...

So, nearly there. But wait ... I feel the need for a little more greebling ... Greebling 3: RTG enhancements At the end of the RTG is that silver structure, I guess it's a protective shield or something. That looks doable :) Cut some parts out (including a few strips in case I decided to...

Well that "tomorrow" turned out to be nearly 2 weeks! Life got in the way. So here's a catch up with some progress made since. More Instruments added: First the two Star Trackers, complete with UV glue "lenses" - they orient the spacecraft in relation to the star Canopus. Why Canopus and not...

Think I'll stick to the 240 for the Magnetometer Truss on this model for now. Hats off to you and Dan and anyone else who has the patience for the Tokyo Tower!