The Model Stash

Hi, Everyone! I started a project to make a more accurate deflector dish assembly for the AMT / ERTL / Round 2 1:650 TOS U.S.S. Enterprise model kit. Back in the early 1970s, AMT changed the tooling of their 1:650 U.S.S. Enterprise model.  Although the kit itself from its original 1966 tooling had its accuracy problems, the changes made in the early 1970s created even more issues.  One of the issues was the deflector dish assembly: The housing was changed / simplified where the outside wall was raised higher, the inner three stepped rings were all made the same height as the outside wall, and the three "extrusions" from the secondary hull were added. The dish assembly was changed from an overly large dish with an equally overly long stem to a detail-less pie pan looking dish with a shortened stem.   When the Smithsonian put together the team for the 2016 TOS Enterprise 11-foot filming miniature restoration project, Gary Kerr - Star Trek historian and filming miniature ...

Hi, Everyone! For those of you who have the AMT / Lesney / Matchbox / ERTL / Round 2 1:537 Enterprise refit / -A kit, one of the many inaccuracies is the size of the docking ports behind the bridge, on both sides of the dorsal (neck), and on both sides of the secondary hull. The port at the bridge area is too small while the other four are too big. If you want to accurize those ports, I wrote up what I did. Dorsal / Secondary Hull Docking Ports : The molded ports are about 7/32 inches in diameter, and a more correct scale size would be about 5/32 inches (roughly 4 mm). Drill out the larger port which should leave a hole about 7/32 inches in diameter. Cut a 1/4 inch piece of an Evergreen Scale Models 227 7/32" (5.5 mm) diameter styrene tube and insert it into the hole. Move the tube until one end is about flush with outer surface of the dorsal or secondary hull part. Glue the tube from the inner surface of the dorsal or secondary hull part and wait for the glue to completely...