Well, its more or less ready for posting. As mentioned earlier, this was a project for a paper model that could be built in under an hour for an
Arisia crafting workshop. I got some suggestions from the
Starship Modeler Forum's paper section and caveats to limit myself to just simple geometric shapes. This is probably true, but at the same time I would like something more interesting than a simple geometric object like a pyramid or cube (although I do appreciate and plan to use the
Borg cube, kindly offered by Marco Scheloske). There were these cool modular paper models that were somewhat simple, but on closer examination, may take a while for some of the more sophisticated iterations. I still hope to work them into the workshop (the website is long gone but survives at the
web archive, although there is hope that it will
return). I was also reminded of some of the simpler, beginner kits at the Lower Hudson Valley
e-gift shop, as well as
some gaming models.
Returning to the main topic though, I created this simplified version of a
Star Trek - The Motion Picture era shuttle (
see previous entry) that is slightly more sophisticated than a box. It benefits from being simple, so instructions are not critical. The parts fit on one page, and there was room for a few more details. I'm currently working on a second page for anyone who wants to elaborate on the details a bit more. Hopefully soon I'll also have a slightly more curvy version that follows the lines of the ship implied by Probert more closely, albeit within reason for paper, meaning that it doesn't need to be folded 4 or 5 times just to round a corner.
This last image linked to jpg of model - PhotoBucket links have been removed
It's about 370Kb and for now located
here. There really wasn't any room for instructions. As a result, you should probably use the following info. The tabs are listed alphabetically on the body in the order to be glued (letter on tab and near edge that it should match). Not mentioned specifically on the page is the scoring of the folds which makes assembly of the body way easier. On the nose, there is a valley fold that goes from the notch behind the "b" tabs (the green arrow) to the nose fold. Also valley fold the tab that connects the upper nose to the top back piece. All other tabs are mountain folds. Also, score for the mountain fold on the lower part of the rear bulkhead (from the notch in the tab straight across to the other notch). The dock doors are perhaps best glued to a thicker piece of card and cut just shallow of the teeth and then pushed through from the inside to the end of the tunnel tube. The thing can be slapped together in about an hour with some care, and some assembly pipelining such as building the docking tunnel while waiting for the fuselage to get more or less dry. The pictured model used standard card stock.
Again, this is just a simple "slap in an hour" version with extra bits that can be glued on later such as the anti-grav doo-dads, EM propulsion thingies and GNDN tankage. Share and Enjoy.
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Note: previous linked parts jpg was resized by photobucket. I changed the upload settings (because it did fit by their rules), and uploaded the original which should be 2020x1520, 200ppi. I have also finally come up with the instructions and uploaded them to Google docs. I'll probably not use photobucket for parts files in future, but it will do for this file.
One of the problems with the shuttle model at the Arisia 2011 Workshop I think was one of scale due to my desire to fit it to one page. I'm going to try to resize it to a bigger, easier to handle scale at the cost of more than one page. Keep an eye out for it.
Oh, and also one of the people at the workshop suggested that the trick to making a recessed hatch is to use a stack of pennies to stop the hatch a measured distance from the end. I haven't tried it yet, but his test at the workshop worked pretty well.
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