First I cut two plain shapes out of wood. I used balsawood and MDF wood. Then in between I glued some plates on. The space between the two plates came handy for the electric wires. The mandible pits where made at this point too.

Then I cut two plain shapes out of styrene and attached those to the top/bottom of the woodframe. The main circle was divided in 16 slices where the ribs was placed. This method I saw on Tim Ketzer's website and I tought it would work well. It did. The high sidewalls was next and holes were drilled for mounting point and for the electric aswell. If I should redo this, then I would add twice as many ribs for a better and stonger support. At the same time I began to plan all teh holes and pits too. There are needed room for those and I thought it would be easier to make that at this point in my process.

Here you can see a wiew of the bottom. I've made the support ribs and is begun to attach the styrene onto the ribs. It looks a bit messy inside but anyway it cant be seen.

Here is a wiew of the tunnel where the escapepod / docking ring is going to be.

04/27/01

Front wiew - beginning to look good. You can see the wires for the frontlights.
It took me quit some time to make the basic hull perfectly curved. Ive glued some thinner styrene on and then did used lots of putty and sand like hell - its realy hard work. Photo was taken 27 april.