NCC 1701-G, USS Enterprise G

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I want a model of the newest Starship Enterprise from the ending of season 3 of Picard. No commercial company is making a scale model but I found the cut one by Dradis101, itself a remake from the original by Frostybird. I further edited the files from Dradis101 by hollowing out the ship parts and making openings for portholes and windows. I opened up the nacelles where it glows blue and made nacelle glow inserts. And the warp exhaust manifolds and bussard collecter I make their own parts. If you have any, I would recommen printing them with clear filament and then doing a tinted wash inside them, blue for the bussard collectors, blue for the manifold. I would also recomment doing the same for the warp nacelle glow inserts with blue. I created a deflector dish, also best is printed with clear filmament and then a blue wash. They can all be printed solid and painted the right color, but it is design to have light sources inside, so the clear filament tinted will give pretty realistic effects. To get a light source inside the nacelles, I made a hollow chamber to run a positive and negative wire through the pylons to get into the nacelles. The rear saucer winglets also have slits in them as does the back of the aft saucer sections for you to make impulse engines. For those, I would just cut some clear plastic from a soft drink bottle or something and tint red and place there. Or if you want to take the easy route, you can place semi-transparent take over the cutouts on the inside of the hull parts and do a red wash over them to get the effect. I recomment the tape idea on the inside over all the windows and port holes, this will give the light a nice, diffused look. You can put a drop of clear glue inside the windows if you want it to be a smooth surface where the windows are located. Remember, the crew works in shifts, not all the lights will be on, so for a more realistic look, you may want to use black tape or black paint to paint the back of the tape so that you will have some dark. All good ensigns deserve their beauty sleep after all. Overlall length is 746mm/29.3 inches, so it should make for a nice display. That makes it 1/600 scale. The ship in the series was 450 meters, a good 170 meters longer than the original NCC-1701. Odd it only had a crew compliment of 350 vs 430 on the smaller ship. Maybe systems had become more efficient so that a smaller crew was needed. In any case, I hope you enjoy the build and post makes if you build it!

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