Day 6 - Stung into action

Stung by some fierce e-mail criticism re: lack of progress I give my assistant a severe dressing down. Post-tears, I hope you all feel guilty now, you know who you are, we get stuck in and the top surface starts to take real shape.




(5 hours)

Day 5 - Underside completed

All the under side panels are done and in place plus some front detail parts. This took around 2 hours to complete. My assistant frequently complains that "this spaceship is taking a long time to make" and is now a rare sight at construction sessions - I think he is losing interest (?)

Day 4 - The shape of things to come

Really starting to take its distinctive shape shape now, we have built the two front-most sections in outline and the underpanel of one of them. The underpanels fit into the main frame with a very clever interconnection which must have taken the designers ages to come up with. According to the manual we are just about under half way through now.

(2 hours)

Day 3 - Progression Sessions

Quite a bit of progress made with the assistance of the missus. Two rear cargo structures, the engine assembly and one side were completed. The seven legs snapped in easily. Progress is swifter now that most of the parts are out of bags and also because the construction has sucked up around 5 or 6 hundred pieces so far. Note Sam's smart new haircut.





(4 hours)