1/350th Refit Cutaway

[Steam235]

I'm in the planning / experiment stage of this build and to start things off I thought I should give some credit to some great builds I saw that have inspired this project.

Thomas Militello's USS Exeter.
https://culttvman.com/main/thomas-militellos-uss-exeter/


And

Stuart Forrester's Cutaway Refit.
https://culttvman.com/main/stuart-forres ... nterprise/

[Drop_Bear]

Dude, that is an awesome project idea! Will you be populating her with little crewmen? Because that would icing on the cake.

[Steam235]

The warp core is above and in front of the hanger. The warp core is actually behind all the colored panels, the stripe down the neck is right outside the vertical warp core. the engineering room and the horizontal warp plasma is behind the "strong back pattern"

[slawton]

It might also be cool to show the ship interiors by having the Borg dissect it with cutting beams.

[Moongrim]

I think that such a project would be totally cool. And it's a skill level I don't know if I'd ever be able to match.

I have to admit to no small amount of envy for anyone who has done such. Now, doing up a 1/350 cutaway showing the warp core- would be indeed unique.

[Steam235]

Moon, your xcv 330 is tougher than this. This is mostly just cutting Windows to see things like the cargo bay.

[cannon fodder]

I think the second pic is a 1/537. I khow that stand well.

[Tesral]

This poster. I could not find a bigger image. There is you inspiration.

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[Steam235]

I think the second pic is a 1/537. I khow that stand well.

Yeah, I think you're right. Whoever Stuart Forrester is he's got skills

[Steam235]

Apologies for the amount of pictures but I wanted to document each step on this part.

To start things off I had to do some cutting. Big risk, the moment the saw hits plastic I have to be committed to the project because there's no putting the saucer back together. BUt to even see if it will work I need the saucer cut open. So I marked my cuts and went to work.



Once I had cut the saucer open I was able to trace the saucer's profile onto paper. I had contemplated using blue prints on the net, or getting my wife to put it in cad, but once she was cut open it became a matter of old school measuring and planning.



Once I had my measurements I was able to use my old compass to start cutting some styrene.


As this was just for practice I cut some rough spacers. When I get to building the decks for real I'll make sure each one is a precise 8mm. decks floors are 1mm thick which scales to about 13 inches. and 8mm spacers will give just about 9foot decks.

The spacers will represent turbo lifts and I will build walls between the decks.

This was mostly proof of concept and to check the fit of the decks.





Looks like my cut out might even fit back on if I think of a way to attach it.