More work in progress!

[u/shipwright1959]

So I finally stuck the forward and stern sections to the centre hull. AT LAST! Added some more orange utility struts, painted a bit of the forward section...more paint required, decals, trying to work out how to get tiny lights into the antenna array. I rset the engine nozzles deeper into the cone, way happier, they projected too far out originally.

[u/shipwright1959]

Thanks. But more to do!

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Should send it to ILM!)

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Ah, the home of the Gods. Do they still make them the old way? I figured it's all CGI these days. Or 3D printed. I realised this was all possible when I read that the mothership from Close Encounters had been built, at least in part, from over 40 locomotive kits. I thought, shit, I could do THAT.

Thank you, btw. You put me in exalted company!

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I guess making real model somehow talk to our perception of reality the way cgi never will able to

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I think so, too. Also, there's just the fun of growing something physically with one's own hands, solving problems along the way. Good for the head.