The main 2 areas that took up all my time was the third nacelle and the 'rail gun' underneath the saucer section.

The third nacelle was scavenged from another Enterprise kit. The support pylon was built from balsa wood then using that as a template, the pylon was vac-formed. The 2 halves glue together and carefully adhered to the hull.

The 'rail gun' was simply built from sheet styrene. It took a bit of fiddling, but I got it in the end.

The 'cannons' on top of the saucer were made from brass rod with masking tape to create the 2 ribs.

Two fins were cut from sheet styrene and glued into place on both the nacelles on the outsides.

The hardest part of the whole thing was actually the Aztec pattern that I hand-painted all over. Unfortunately the images don't do it justice. I hope when I get back home for a holiday, I would like to take some close-up shots of the paint scheme.

I made it in time for the screening. At the start of the night, a lot of people came up and were wondering what the hell I had created. Some people even suggested that it doesn't exist in the Star Trek universe so it can't be accurate. Other people thought it was an update of the original series Dreadnought...... I had my comeback at the end of the screening. Just about everybody came up to have a good look at it again, and now the 'WOW' factor kicked in.

Now with the days of the Internet and dedicated sci-fi modeling sites, reference is a lot easier to come-by. One day I'd like to redo it. Maybe even use some after-market products.

I must admit it was pretty exciting at the time to actually build something that no-one in West Australia had heard of and for many years mine was the only one I knew of in Perth.

That was a real buzz......................