Federation Standard Containers

[Tesral]

Federation Standard Containers are usually represented in 1/2500 as 1/2". That would be wrong. The FJ manual said they are 40 meter across, that scales to 0.629". Or 5/8"

Aluminum tubing is available in that size. This must be explored.

[jkb-1]

Wooden dowels, too. Easier to work with, although I've never been able to sand the ends into the proper shape. They take a lot of primer or paint to cover the grain, and they show up any dings they get.

[Hossfly72]

5/8 osd PVC or Pex pipe.. filled with putty and the ends sanded to shape..

[trekriffic]

I like the wooden dowel idea although PVC pipe sounds good too. For the ends you maybe could bond a pair of these 1/2" diameter acrylic half spheres:

https://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item. ... FoQAvD_BwE

[trekriffic]

They also come in 5/8" diameter.

[el gato]

Wooden dowels, too. Easier to work with, although I've never been able to sand the ends into the proper shape. They take a lot of primer or paint to cover the grain, and they show up any dings they get.

Dings in wood are easy to fix with a little water and some sanding

[Jason Abbadon]

For TMP era containers, I've used Super Glue tubes.

[Vahmp]

I like the wooden dowel idea although PVC pipe sounds good too. For the ends you maybe could bond a pair of these 1/2" diameter acrylic half spheres:

https://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item. ... FoQAvD_BwE

The Half spheres would be TOO round for end caps of the containers.

[Vahmp]

I have a file on just about every single drawing of ST TOS (and TMP, I think) containers made.
Lots of container and decal ideas for containers.

[NoKhando]

5/8" ? That's 16 millimetre in real money isn't it .

Try searching for 16mm plastic (polystyrene) test tubes .