Time for something to sit it on. Simple stand made from offcuts of the plasic used with the ship, along with a small length of plastic tube. Inside the tube is fitted the other end of the DC cable - this both supplies power to the ship, and also provides a snug socket to mount it on. The battery case is secured underneath. The whole lot is then painted metallic silver.
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And there we go. Next up print out a little museum card style information panel, and attach it to the stand. You can also see at this point, I also attached the front pulse laser. Nothing too clever here, just a variety of thin strips glued together to give an interesting shape.
And here it is, sat on my bookshelf.
And some more shots. It might not be quite as polished as Ian's example - and a fair bit went wrong along the way (which I guess means I learnt quite a bit too). But considering this was the first time I'd built anything like this, I'm pretty pleased with the results.
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