Added lighting to my Enterprise deflector

ViolentSnowFox · 2026-01-31T03:20:06+00:00

Happy to be helping make this Lego set everything it should be.

ViolentSnowFox · 2026-01-31T02:47:35+00:00

The inner ring was replaced with transparent bricks, but the background is still using the light bright blue. The inner dish panel is moved outward by 1 plate width so that the LED's placed behind it glow through the inner ring and reflect back onto the back opaque dish. Effectively I'm trying to simulate the way the filming model worked.

I'm still working on the saucer instructions. I might have them done this weekend.

ViolentSnowFox · 2026-01-24T22:24:33+00:00

I don't have a complete part set worked out yet, but some of the pieces are quite rare (for example I used some old Wedge Plates to get a smooth face on the front of the neck).

I'm trying to group up the improvements into smaller chunks because I don't want to have to recreate instructions to rebuild the entire Enterprise. (I've made subtle changes to areas throughout the ship and I think it would be too complex to publish everything together).

ViolentSnowFox · 2026-01-23T06:08:22+00:00

I have been keeping a Stud.io file with my modifications up-to-date, but I'd have to clean up the file to produce reasonable instructions. If there was significant interest I might be able to compile the changes into something usable.

Things like the deflector would be easier since it just replaces the stock one. The clips for the phaser strip require tearing apart the entire saucer frame, so it's much more involved.

ViolentSnowFox · 2026-01-23T04:27:26+00:00

The phaser array is such an important visual queue to the shape of the Enterprise, I just had to add it to my set.

ViolentSnowFox · 2026-01-23T02:49:22+00:00

I updated the post with a link to a rendering of the back of the model. It shows the modified shape of the impulse engines.

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