Wow I'm speechless. You did such a great job and all entirely scratch built you are a true maker extraordinaire!! Thanks so much for sharing with us.

So what's next for you. Clearly you can scratch built anything!

This is my studio scale replica of the 33 inch TOS Enterprise. I've spent the last 12 years researching and reverse engineering plans of this version of the Enterprise and started in on this build back in 2014.

Besides wanting to try to build something that no one had attempted before, there was the additional motivating factor of having always wanted the model of the Enterprise sitting on the table in Requiem for Methuselah. As much as I love the 11 foot model, the shapes are different enough that it wasn't able to fill that spot. And because I wanted that model, I endeavored to replicate how the model looked in December 1968 when she was filmed for that episode. By that point the original model had been damaged and repaired, so my model shows many of the same scars the original had by then.

I put together a page on most of what I did to build the model (here) and I had watched a ton of Steve's videos to pick up pointers/techniques.

I have galleries of the model here and here, but here are a few shots of the model...



A few black and white shots...

Beautiful Paul!

Absolutely brilliant! So thrilled for you mate!! What a beauty!!! <3

This boat is over 10 years old now at least. It was given to me by my friend Wayne Frye. It was built mostly. I wanted to make it RC and used a gas cylinder from David Merriman I converted to RCABS which recycles the air from inside the cylinder back to a bladder in the blast tank pushing the water out, you go up, and taking the air back into the cylinder deflating the bladder and you go down. A reliable system that works better than gas IMO.

I is a smooth running boat that has never had a problem. The only real problem is the nearest lake I can run the boat at is and hour to 3 hour drive. Slowly but surely we are being kicked out of lakes running anything from sail boats to electric submarines.

These are old pictures from the days when I just finished her. I still have the boat and it's in great shape. And yes, submarines are called boats. Ask any bubblehead.















Both the VIIIC and the Gato are 1/72 scale showing you the size difference between the two WW2 boats. The Gato was much larger and considered then a luxury boat.



The WTC used in the boat. You can see the bladder in the blast tank.