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I am….just busy with other things 😩

@@ThingstoMakeGlue Just checking, mate. Cheers

@calixtoamorim7340 appreciate it!

Thank you sir! Really appreciate the kind words. The real skill in making things is definitely problem solving and improvising - there’s always a way to do something, just gotta try things and figure out how. Thanks for watching and commenting 😁

I’ll see what I can do! 😁

Storage space becomes a problem when everything is enormous 🤣

@@ThingstoMakeGlue understandable. That's when you buy a portable building to house your 4 foot model. 😂

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Thanks Des!

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Thanks Rafael! 😁

Спасибо! 😁😁

That’s awesome! Feel free to throw me a link if you’re sharing your build online, I’d love to see how this progresses! 😁

The models used on the tv shows would be accurate. The CG Defiant used in DS9 was built from the ILM model. I believe the CG Enterprise E used in ST Nemesis was also based on the ILM model from First Contact. The CG Defiant was built by Foundation Imaging in the 90s and the E was built by Digital Domain. Both are built in Lightwave 3D. I have them both. 😁

@@Balabok then I suggest you compare their dimensions to photos of the studio model. Each of the CG models of the Defiant were incorrect replicas of the physical model in different ways. The one in the season 4 + intro is quite accurate overall, but the nose is squished and it's geometrically very simple. The first contact model by ILM is very shape accurate, but incredibly low detail, with visible polygon edges in the finished shots. The Foundation Imaging one is too rectilinear, lacking the subtle tapering aftward of each of the stair step sections. The one used in the shuttle launch shot from The Sound Of Her Voice had very vertically exaggerated lower hull details. The season 7 model is the best, but the nose has a pronounced kink in the top that wasn't in the studio model. I have ~really~ researched this. I'm familiar with one Enterprise-E that's floating around, is that the one that was submitted on spec to Paramount's Star Trek art department as a (failed) bid on the Insurrection VFX contract?

@@brendancaulfield970 I believe you're correct. From what I saw of the Defiant's earlier builds, the ILM reference photos were not that great. They were hastily shot with no color or lens correction. The model is game rez by today's standards with many non-planer polygons, open edges, etc. Lightwave's render engine is pretty forgiving and most of those errors don't show up on 640/720p renders. It needs to be rebuilt. Accurately. I don't know if it's worth my time and effort to rebuild it as a subD model in Maya. It's really just a nostalgic model since it was used on many shots for DS9. I'm just cleaning it up for print so I can add to my small shipyard of ST tv/movie ships.

@@brendancaulfield970 The E that I have is built from the original ILM First Contact reference. I would imagine it's very accurate. It's 20 years old.

Thanks so much! I usually try to be a bit more frugal with the filler to save on both sanding and waste, but I got very lazy with this one 😂

This is mostly scratch built with some modified 3D printed parts sourced from Thingiverse.

@@ThingstoMakeGlue thanks sir

Those pointed eared hobgoblins 🤣 thanks!

The 3D files are freely available on Thingiverse, so you could probably arrange for someone to print it for you, I suppose!

Thank you, much appreciated. It seemed like the right word at the time 😁

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Neither had I. Turns out they’re just popsicle sticks, but skinnier.

Endeavour was the last shuttle built, so it was the most advanced by far. I’m really fond of Buran, though, because the Soviets “fixed” a lot of problems with the American design that could only be feasible to fix with completely new build. They’re all awesome though! 😁

All of the parts of the US shuttle (orbiter, external tank and solid rocket boosters) were reusable, but the parts that were ejected on launch (tank and boosters) needed extensive refurbishment each time. It wasn’t an amazing design, but it worked. The Soviet shuttle was the same, all parts reusable, but without the engines on the orbiter there was more payload capacity and less dead weight to lift into orbit. The Soviet one wasn’t perfect, either. I suppose it’s hard to evaluate the “improvements” with only one official spaceflight. 🚀

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The model is great in that it’s huge and it’s well engineered for printing in parts, but the design is really weird. I wish I knew the original source, because it’s a very strange Sovereign class variation. Nothing on it is quite right. Thanks for commenting 😁

@@ThingstoMakeGlue it's actually really frustrating how almost all the 3d starship models are like that. After you start piecing them together, its like someone saw the ship and made the file from memory.

Yup, spot on. It’s worse when you’re scaling them up huge like this. I think you can get away with some inaccuracies at smaller scales, but all the errors are obvious as heck at 3 feet long. I suspect the models have been lifted out of games, although they doesn’t explain why they’re all so wrong 🤷‍♂️

@@ThingstoMakeGlue exactly. It sucks that the people that did GOOD large scale ships, either went MIA or never offered kits.

Thanks for the tip! 😁

Thank you!

Thank you! I appreciate the advice. I have a lot more work to do on the Enterprise-E, but it’s a struggle to find the time to work on it!

Haha, thanks! 😁

That’s the plan! I haven’t had much of a chance to get back to the Enterprise-E. Hoping to finish it off in the next few months! 😁

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That works for me! 😁

Thanks Patrick! This is the biggest thing I’ve printed in 5 years of having a printer. Also, Christmas tree lights are the best. Cheap, pre-wired, and frustration-free! 😁

Awesome! I....caaan......but I have to warn you that my files are AWFUL, they don’t print very well, they need some math done to get the scaling right and the resulting parts need a TON of manual work to clean up (some parts are filled and there are no cavities for wiring/joining, etc). But if you think your printing guy is up to the challenge, it can be organized!

@@ThingstoMakeGlue I have managed to solve the problem but Thankyou for taking the time to reply and offering those too me :)

@@startrekmodels734 How did you solve the problem? Have you got a better file?

I don’t see why not, the sky is the limit with 3D printed parts!

Things to Make & Glue yea the sto defiant the hulls some have features I want on a different hull

Things to Make & Glue I’d actually have a legit custom defiant variant I’d prob do mine to fit my 1/1000 polarlights defiant not gonna light it I can either experiment with glow in the dark paint or even practice painting effects that gives it the look that it’s lit but it’s defiant so most windows are under the belly which I’d make pothole type windows it’s a warship nothing more nothing less so needs small pothole type windows like on the older navy ships also 3D design I can add my own touches to it angle the necelles down a tad lower tho up looks more aggressive so maybe when he gets back to me we will experiment with different angles