Aztek Dummy Update 8/30/19 a - 66" Enterprise Chapter 11- the finale
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- Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2024
- it's the big finish we've all been waiting for!
the lighting board is replaced, powered up and ready for flight
the last tiny details are sorted and the ship gets moved to it's permanent place of honor in the display room.
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Hello Lou. I just wanted to say how amazing your dedication has been over the years. You are an inspiration to me like you wouldn't believe. Just this past couple of weeks I've decided to get back into Star Trek models. I quit for about nine years, and was finally going to sell off all my supplies, models, and everything because I figured after nine years whats the point. Until I picked up one of my unfinished models sitting in the corner, and the emotions hit me like a ton of bricks. I asked myself why on earth would I just throw away such a talent. I look at the three models I've finished years ago and told myself that would be such a waste, so I now have made the move to get back into it. I appreciate talent like yourself and many others here on RUclips. I honestly believe that RUclips is one of the most amazing things in our society that has ever came. Thanks again!!
thank you so much for the kind words. and I'm glad I got you back to the workbench. These are truly golden days when it comes to model building.. The variety and quality of kits have never been better and the aftermarket can provide just about any detail you could ask for.
Build on, my friend!
Hey Lou, I just watched your build series on the 66” Studio Scale Enterprise. I just want to say, you did an awesome job on this. Kudos to you sir. A beautiful build and what a cool model. That is a challenging model and you pulled it off nicely.
thank you. it was quite the adventure.
Fantastic work!!! 12 weeks of hard work for you, 12 weeks of viewing pleasure for me. We all live vicariously through your amazing efforts.
You are a Master Builder Lou. What an incredible build. Your attention to detail is beyond reproach.
Hey Lou, very cool model. Been watching since the big Reliant model. Tht and the movie Enterprise 1701 are my favorites.
One tip that might help on the next build with the light spot on the LED's of the impulse engines, if you want to diffuse the spot some, try filing the dome of the LED flat. That will disperse the spot and make it much wider even close up. The filed end of the LED will also act like a frosted LED helping to disperse the light even more. You can lightly scuff the sides also to soften the light going out to the sides.
You can also get flat tip LED's in clear colors or frosted.
These are some of the tricks we use when fitting LED's to old school signal meters and measuring tools that had small 3mm bulbs fitted to them.
I did flatten the impulse LEDs because I needed the extra space. between the impulse deck part and the saucer rim and the armature coming up thru all in that one area, I had to shave down the bulbs to make room. It did disperse the light a bit, but it's still mighty strong
Hey Lou, I have to tell you I am very surprised. I stumbled across you working on the 66" Enterprise and I enjoyed it so much I had to go back to the beginning and watch the whole process. I stopped building plastic models many years ago but could still enjoy doing it if I took the time. I am a glass artist and if I had my fantasy dream job, it would be building iconic space ships out of glass and crystal. Maybe in Heaven one day!. In the meantime I love enjoying model building vicariously through your channel. I like watching how you solve problems and upgrade the models. I also like the way you communicate. I enjoy many of the obscure references you make to odd sci-fi films and etc.. Let's me know I'm in the right company. Thank you for taking the time to be thorough in your descriptions. Thank you for sharing your passion. And thank your wife for sharing you with the RUclips world. Your channel is my new default viewing. Bravo.
What a gorgeous build. I had intended, about 15 years ago, to build a stringed instrument from scratch from scraps in my tiny Hollywood room with a Dremel and some hand tools. I formulated a plan for the build however life had other ideas in mind (like decades of neighbors from hell on six sides) making the build impossible at the time. Eleven and a half weeks ago (December) I finally realized that this might be the last build of my life. Living here is like getting beat up everyday and the toxic buildup is huge. So I am seeing the end of this build, all of the parts are coming together and I really need to go very slow at this point, one angry response to a neighbor's psychosis can ruin 231 hours of loving work. Your Enterprise build is inspiring and I had to laugh when you said "twelve weeks" cause I'm in the 12 week of my shimisen build. Making it electric - that's a whole new chapter. I have no soldering iron and I don't know how to solder, how exciting. Thank you for the coincidence and all. Aloha.
I didn't want it to end....a true fabricator's quote there... Lou, you are the Master of your Fabrication!! Glad to have viewed this project and it rivals the Smithsonian model on display in DC!
You sir.. are a Wizard! My compliments on this extraordinary piece of art!
Thank you so much for this. I enjoyed this series more than most tv shows. You have unbeleivable patience. You are a master.
Lou the original dome clamps were, I believe, made from leather & were the same colour as the nacelles. The Smithsonian restoration is based on the Enterprise after it was refreshed by the studio from "The trouble with tribbles". I think they did this because they had lots more photographic reference covering this period. photographs & screen shots do show the orange coloured clamps & chrome nut in place.
Lou, you should be working for ILM’s model shop. Great work! Would love to see you build a refit in this scale if one is available. Though, you’d probably need to build another addition onto your house to display it.
Absolutely stunning! Incredibly jealous. And just want to say a BIG thank you for making me get back into the hobby again after watching your "JJ Prise" build and giving me invaluable insight into how to do it properly.
A thing of outstanding beauty! You have done Matt Jeffries' design proud! 🖖😎
"Mr. Sulu...take us out...on a shakedown cruise." A beautiful accomplishment !
11 weeks well spent. Was a hoot following along, as always!
congrats Lou. I think my heart skipped a beat when the board failed on you. I am really happy to see you got her all finished and working. Just awesome!!
She is an absolutely beautiful ship , well done you really did an amazing job building her .congrats.
An end of an era, and now you can say to your self "HAPPY RETIREMENT" great job LOU.
Absolutely amazing Lou, you certainly have outdone yourself this time. I like the blue nacelles, I think it adds a little bit of colour to the overall plainness of the hull colour. Could you please, please, please do an updated tour of your model room, now you have the centrepiece. End of an era, time for Lou 2.0 (or Lou Refit?).
Take a bow Lou and Ralph,you have made a thing of wonder !
A studio scale Spindrift would sit very well on that spare corner of the table.
Wow, it turned out great Lou!!! It really looks awesome in the display room!! What a beauty. Listening to you talk about how it took a while to get to this kit reminds me of the way I feel toward my Bandai perfect grade Falcon. One of these days.............. I know you have to feel great about this build, at least you should. Incredible job!!
Every good starfleet engineer makes repairs and upgrades to their ship. I like the nacelle dome clips you made! Scotty made an upgrade :) be proud! That’s an amazing job you did sir!
Beautiful job Lou! Brought a tear to my eye to see it on display. Congrat’s.
Man, you've committed an absolute act of beauty. Congrats! Seriously, seriously awesome.
Regarding the new display location this thought comes to mind: SCOTTY I NEED ALL THE WARP POWER YOU'VE GOT! WE MUST OUT RUN THAT GHOSTBUSTERS APPARITION! Never been a fan of the heavy weathering. But seriously, she looks beautiful.
weathering.
You are truly an inspiration. Don't put it off for tomorrow may never come.
Wow, a two-fer! Love your massive Enterprise! It makes the other ships around it look tiny! And they are large scale kits!
Lou, she's a beauty. A one in a million star ship. I'm not 100% sure, but I think one window on either side of the neck were red.
fantastic work lou . i would have had a nervous break down five steps ago lol
Lou that looks amazing! What a nice centerpiece for your collection!
Hey Lou, I just revisited this series. You mentioned "thinking bigger". You could always help Mr. Trek with his project building a (not cannon) 1\25 scale TOS Enterprise. 40 feet long with a 17 foot saucer section. He's doing a FULL interior. He's currently making a 1\100 scale "prototype" in order to base the 1\25 build on.
It's at least worth a look. The final model will be on public display with a multi level viewing platform. Can't wait to see that when it's finished. Maybe you and Phil can come over to see it with Wayne and make a video when it's done?
That is such an amazing model and an incredible build video - congratulations
Amazing! Outstanding! That says it all.
Love it! Been fun watching and the results are nothing but impressive. Cheers!
That is a master at work! Great job on that beautiful ship! Only have to tackle a few windows if you choose to Lou.
WOW!! I'm so jealous, and happy for you. That was a lot of work. Nice.
Congrats it’s a beautiful kit. Dreams really do come true!
I think when the television model makers created the domes on the engines, they were more concerned about the appearance of the light - That it appears like a lit hemisphere without little clamps interrupting the clean line. The division between lit and unlit is very obvious. So they made the clamps out of the same material to minimize that. - By the way, the orange domes really “make it”. Those were the right choice.
What a great model. Very well done.
Only recently discovered your videos. Incredible job! You must have the patience of a saint. I wish I could build models but I've never been very good at it. I like watching others make them though!
Good you decided to go less dirty with Her, she's stunning.
Thanks for giving your time to share your skills with us mere mortals Lou.
Nice Shenzou kit but rather small and fiddly do hope a much larger scale of the Ships from Discovery are produced 1/350 or 1/600 would be so awesome. Have you seen the Orville ship kit ? looks nice,take care happy building.
the only Orville kit I ever saw was the FP kit that was pulled after they got a cease and desist from Fox. I'd love to see a licensed kit in the 18- 24 inch range
Very Awesome! I’m itchin’ to start my 1/350 TOS and TMP Enterprises.
She's BEAUTIFUL, Lou! Just BEAUTIFUL!
May I suggest a nice model of the Galileo Shuttle Craft to go in the empty corner of the display table?
BTW - If I remember right, those little tabs that hold the nacelle domes on the original filming model, were small strips of leather, of all things. They've obviously been replace by the Smithsonian, but yes - leather! Just a bit of odd info.
So, congratulations on the finish of the ol' girl! Still my personal favorite ship!
Congratulation ! One dream is done with many more to go.
Absolutely awesome! Beautiful job, Lou!
Congratulations on a Fantastic job!👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌‼️‼️‼️😉
What a FABULOUS build! A gorgeous ship, crowning so many epic builds! Thanks for showing us how it completes the showroom. Truly amazing! Love ya, Lou! What will you do next? :)
BRAVO-! Be proud, Lou. The Enterprise was -- IS -- indeed a labor of love in so many ways ... NEXT THING? How about a 26-ft (like the original) of THE VALLEY FORGE from 'SILENT RUNNING' ..? (My favorite film.)
Your fan, D.A.
Well done Lou she looks great. Now you need a new house extension!!
Impressive build!
Hell of a size and awesome at the same time 🖖
Congratulations Lou! Its a beautiful ship!
Fabulouso, Lou. Ten foot steel cap nuts may be standard Starfleet material, but I think your model looks better without them.
New subscriber here. I have really enjoyed watching you build this beast.
You could order another set of the orange bussard collectors and do them in the style of the Mirror, Mirror Enterprise.
I have been on a binge watching several makers do their builds as I work up a space to build the amt 1:357 refit. But I caught up with yours about 10-12 days ago. Great looking build.
Outstanding work, Lou!
Congratulations Lou! Most adjectives would be lacking to describe how awesome it turned out! I don't know what could top this to be honest. I hear you about being apprehensive at the onset, but I always wait to build a kit that has just come out. You don't know what goodies for it may be released in the interim.
You've knocked it out of the park! Well done :)
On the Smithsonian Original filming model, the orange over domes on the model were re-made and re-designed during the last refurbishment. It wasn't secured that way on the filming hero originally. It was probably deemed to be easier to cast the new ones this way to replace the originals, and or if I remember right they were missing one.
It has always somewhat bugged me that they used actual nuts on the model in the first place. LOL. I mean you wouldn't have seen them on a SD 19" color TV, but they are on the model, like they would have used a giant wrench to put it together.
Amazing! Congratulations. I'm imagining a Botany Bay to go with it.
I have one of those. its the big version that Capt. Cardboard used to sell. I need to move it from the living room to the display room. You're right, it would make a good addition to the pedestal.
She's a real beauty and glad to be a small part of your dream come true.
and thank you for putting up with my rambling panicked calls. LOL
Truly amazing👍🖖
New retirement project: full sized TARDIS! Do it Lou!
then I'd finally have enough room on the inside for the rest of the collection! BRILLIANT!
So I watched further and I saw where you used screws instead of the nuts on the engine domes, and yes they look so much better than having big ass nuts coming out of them. I agree also that the way you made the supports as part of the engines nacelles and not part of the dome looks like a more reasonable architect detail. It makes more sense. great call on all of that.
BRAVO LOU!!!
So cool to see it finally come together...wadda ride!
You've done your Mona Lisa. Your Citizen Kane. Your Sistine Chapel. You can retire now. Oh wait, there's a couple of empty spaces in the room
Congratulations on finishing your dream project. This was an incredible build video series and fun watching you plan it out to the finish. The Enterprise looks beautiful and a great centerpiece to your collection.
Just the right size for a big Star Trek Fan!!!
Who makes this model kit and what is the price? You did an amazing job assembling this kit. Utterly fantastic!
Very, very nice - well done!
Beautiful.
Truly, Congratulations!
Looks amazing Lou!!
Stunning Lou!!!!!
Crap! I just glided past the (repeated) image, assuming that you were diverting off to the Shenzou. Sorry. If you haven't glued the bridge down-- I hope you consider using pins. If the pins are long enough, the only way to remove the bridge is to turn the ship upside down. I like to use ApoxySculpt to accept the telescoping mate to the movable pin. That way an adjustment can be made.
Such a big beauty. I agree with a little less weathering.
Eliot, the issue ended up being the light leak from the edge of the translucent bridge part. Pins, Magnets any thing "temporary"would still allow the leak. I had to mate the entire rim of the part and paint over the seam to block the light. I chose a lower tack elmers glue to do that so that if the day ever comes, I can pry thru elmers much easier than epoxy to pop that bridge off.
big E is very very amazing My dad is going to enjoy seeing this Video
You’ve done a fine job, Sir.
"Shes a big girl, and shes done" Well done, Lou!! DONT DO GRID LINES ON THE BOTTOM (please?) I see you softened the weathering effects - looks much better. And good catch on the bussard dome clamps as done by the Smith - be interesting to know if they kept strictly to canon for those. Hope to see a beauty/green screen shots vid soon! Instantly one of my fav builds. Maybe tackle the big scale Refit next?
"OUTSTANDING"
So, (Big Question that I probably shouldn't present just yet) if I build the mold sets and or parts for a TOS BOP in that scale and post it on You Tube, would you be interested in detailing it, or one if I were to send it to you?
not only will I build it and promote it for you (if I can be completely honest about it, warts and all) but I will even take a shot at producing the big bird in vinyl so you won't have to make the decal. how do you like those apples?
@@aztekdummy If You have the access or services to do the Vinyl decal that would be awesome. I was looking into it with the 1/72 scale line drawings that I made and it would have been around 200 dollars or so for the decal in Vinyl. That was at the mall here though from a guy that owned the shop that made those custom.
We are talking that that model would have been aprox 3 feet long and 4 feet wide.
I figured out that Your model at 67.25 inches Scaled in at 1/169 so the TOS BOP would come out to be 15 7/8th inches OAL, and 21 3/32 inches in overall length, with a height of 5 7/64 inches.
I wrote overall length on the second measurement by mistake, the 21 and 3/32 inches was the width over all dimension.
Well, vinyl is kinda what I do.
@@aztekdummy great, I didn't know that. I have been looking at a crap load of pictures of the original filming model. The support wings on the model kits are to tall. the model actually comes out to 3 and 1/32 inches in height when I corrected the nacelle height when put against the main body. The ship only had 4 decks. There is also a big argument about lines said in Balance of Terror where they had Scotty saying that the ship only had impulse engines. I think it was just careless writing.
Anyway I need to get on my other computer so I can make a video about the plans, and then I need to go to kinko's to scale them to size. I have been scaling them in the computer for about 5 hours now, so now I can print them to size.
Please do a video on your NOMAD model. Thanks!
REALLY AWESOME JOB LOU!
Wow, totally cool. Fantastic. Is this kit available?
That was awesome!
That was great.
VERY NICE LOU !!
23rd Century technology, the clamp holding the the Busard Collector could be made of Transparent Aluminium making is clear.
Amazing work she's a beauty! So now you're done with models forever right? 😉
"Well, she may be a new ship, but she's got the right name. You remember that, you treat her like a lady and she'll always bring you home." - McCoy. :D
Hey, Slimer's chasing the Enterprise... what episode was that?! ;P
I try to ordering the big enterprise D while back but I couldn't get to the website
Don has suspended public sales on this kit, I understand.
I was really looking forward to building that model I hope it comes up again
All you need now is to rig the remote into the armrest controls of your captains chair.
Ooohh, what a great idea! I will look into that for sure
I've been watching Star Trek since 1975 TOS obviously and I don't ever remember seeing three spine lights in front of the rear Dome that comes up above the shuttle Bay I don't ever remember seeing those in the rear shots that they would show in there was always a famous shot with a camera was mounted Lights Under the engine looking forward
mine ended up sticking up a little higher than the real ones, but they're there. I was thinking of sanding mine down a little bit more, but with my luck, I'd sand thru the tops, shorting out the bulbs and there is no way to replace them.
Around at 14:00 you show the Nut Mount brackets on the warp engines. I always hated those on the original model. They weren't really noticeable on the 19 inch color tv's or smaller of the 1960's and 70's but if you got a chance to look at the filming model, then yea they are there plain as day. When you consider the scale of the ship if it were real then those nuts would be half the size of a man. LOL, w would think by the time that the real Starship Enterprise is suppose to be constructed in that they wouldn't be using 4 foot hexagon bolt to hold parts on a ship that can move several hundred times the speed of light through space.
I know that the simple explanation is that the model builders of the filming model for what ever reason bought or had the nuts and attaching bolts or studs and it made it practical to attach the outer plastic globes to the engine nacelle, and again it wasn't that apparent on the tv back then. I really wish though that they would have considered making the dome screw on as a whole like a jar lid or used a lip catch with counter sunk screws that they could have put some clay into the area to hide them, and remove it to disassemble when needed.
It is iconic and nostalgic now though that they are on that model and yours. I am real glad though that they didn't do similar things to the D7 and the Romulan Bird of Prey.
Fricking awesome to see you at this point of the build. She looks so good. I am also glad to see your weathering choice also. I thought she was a tad over the top, but I didn't really want to mention it. I mean its your build. I already stirred the soup enough with the scaling information.
Great build. See you on the next project.
If you add a bridge sounds generator - you will never notice the nacelle motors.
SO Lou, I finally got off my butt and made a premier block out video for the Klingon Shuttle Idea. I have been cleaning and setting up my work area so I can get my extra 3D printers set up, and work benches.
So for the 3D design aspects this is what I have to start out with: ruclips.net/video/XASGdc8u-F4/видео.html
wow!
Wait- what is that little projection sticking off of the space and planetary sensor array on the underside of the saucer section?? I’ve never seen that before. Huh??? It’s not in any of the TOS series, not on the Smithsonian model, nor is it on any of the official Franz Joseph blueprints. Please explain.
well, it is on the Enterprise during the entire run of the series, but unfortunately it is the first detail that gets lost in the SFX compositing. It is also on the ship as she sits today in the Smithsonian. The story goes that it was originally a red grain of wheat bulb that lit up to give the animators a point of reference to draw in the phaser beams, but wasn't used and that why you can see the phasers come from a variety of different spots under the saucer depending on the episode. It's not in the FJ materials, but really those aren't as canon as you remember them to be.
Lou Dalmaso Looking very very closely at photos of the restored Smithsonian model, you are correct. There is a small projectile sticking off of the planetary sensor array. I’m just baffled that after 50 years of owning the blueprints, the Starfleet Technical Manual, Scotty’s Guide to the Enterprise, several books about the ship and many of the Michael Okuda books, NONE of them make mention of this little... whatever it is. I was at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum before the Enterprise restoration and took lots of pics. I went back and looked at those pics again and it wasn’t there at that time. So I am utterly confused that absolutely none of these sources ever made mention or showed this detail. If it were so important to be on the original filming model, why it would not be included in the 5 decades-worth of TOS material. So weird. But kudos to you for being a stickler on such canonical details. Except for the blue nacelle lights. lol.
@@aw3752 BTW, that detail IS on the master replicas 350 version and is included in the Round 2 350 kit.
I would give credit to Gary Kerr's research and his complete mastery of the subject when it comes to it's inclusion since he was involved with the development of the R2 kit, the MR replica and the original Jim Key kit that my build was made from. He also consulted heavily with the Smithsonian team ( members of which I've had the pleasure of meeting and picking their brains) and those guys don't fool around..
Like you, I collected a lot of those offshoot "reference" books from Ballentine back in the late 70's and 80's and while it's true they had the Paramount seal of approval, I have my doubts that GR was asked to sit down and read each page to get his OK. That's really not how the licensing works. The blueprints (while wonderful fiction) were more likely than not produced using primitive screengrabs and/or frames of 35mm film for reference and a whole lot of imagination to fill in the gaps without any contact with the filming model
I thought it was a cloaked Romulan ship in that back corner.
Ha! Good one. I'm using that
Good Job Lou