Busy With Dinner Theater

Sorry I have not posted any updates for a couple of weeks.

I have been working on the warbird, but currently don’t feel it’s enough to post about.

Plus, I am involved with our local Dinner Threater Company and we are currently doing our shows and then we are done until next year.

I promise as soon as the first week of February is over I’ll get back to regular postings.

Thanks

A New Year and Backend Windows

Happy New Year everyone, hope you had a memorable celebration.

But now its over and on with the build.

Well, I had hopped to get more done today but I didn't, I wanted to shape the plexiglass for the engine, but I have misplaced the plexiglass. So I have to go into town and get some more. Do that tomorrow.

I drilled the holes into the back section of the ship.  And I have a couple of lessons learned. 

1) Practice Drilling!  I can't state this enough.  You think drilling simple little holes is well, 'simple', bits not.

2) Figure out the correct size bit while practicing.  The saves the embarrassment of realizing the holes are the wrong site and should be smaller.

3) Create Proper templates.  I thought paper would be ok.  Its not really a good solution for drill templates.  At least not with this many holes to drill.

4) Use the appropriate drill.  The slowest the drill I used still was at 1000 rpm.  Think I will see if I can something to slow it down a bit more.

Here is my drilling setup, and yup that's a magnifier in front.  I was going cross-eyed trying to see what I was doing with my naked eyes.

So, with the wrong size bit, a too fast drill and lousy templates, I drilled the backend out.  Once I realized my error, I just decided to continue and live the my mistake.    I don't think it turned out that bad in the end.

There are not the same quantity of windows and they are a little over the place. But hey, they are Drilled!

As I said before, I was going to do the engine, but I cannot find my plexiglas.

On a side note, the forum that I am on had an interesting post on my thread.  It featured an interview with Andrew Probert on Trekyards.  Its worth a watch if you have not seen it.

One of the items Mr. Probert mentions is the inboard cargo area.  Now I knew it was different, but did not realize how different.  Basically the cargo area was designed to stretch to the back of the ship.  Instead it was shorten into what we see in todays model.

So seeing as I am making mods, making this my own, I wonder if I should build the model as created, or stay true to Mr. Probert's design and build up the cargo area.  Ah, decisions... decisions... decisions...