I really like this ship design. My downfall here was the size of the model. It is meant to be printed at a smaller scale, so the details here are super soft and there aren't enough of them. Another problem with the size, as you can see in the images, is it's own weight. The nacelle pylons keep snapping because the nacelles are too heavy for pylons. I tried to fix that with some wooden dowels inside the pylons, but they can't reach far because the pylons are angled. I had also never done a 3d printed model before, so I didn't know to get rid of the printing lines. This was printed by Mad Man Shipyards. It is 18 inches, which if you do the maths is about 1/1200 scale. Ish.
*Edit: I made this 4 years ago*
I plan to do another one, more in scale with my other 1/1000 TOS Enterprises.
I modelled the base after this scene:
https://youtu.be/cJ9VMaNRF4s
If anyone has a 3d printer... hmm.
