Before I can move on to the construction of the engineering section and the electronics / lighting within, I need to build a shuttle bay.  I intend to work on the wiring and such with the ship on it's side and once that's complete I won't be able to get into the shuttle bay to work on it, so it has to be done now.

     This is going to be some very detailed work.

• the ceiling's wrong
• the maintenance pit is too long
• there should not be a large door to the shuttle's left
• there should be a small compression door to the forward-left of the shuttle leading outside, not a stack of crates
• there is nothing outside!  They show something much like a runway, but not the tail of the ship
• there is a console to the shuttle's left which shouldn't be there

     Below are some screen shots from the game:

      Here is a 3D image (previously shown on the entry made 8/18/01).  I think this is the most accurate representation.

And below you see what it is I have to work with (on the tail end of the drive section, see (1/19/02):

     Thus, there is plenty of room for creative license (and that's all there's room for!).  Right off the top, the image of the model pieces above (bottom) show that the way they're supposed to be assembled per the instructions.  The walls are totally wrong - they're all techno, like a circuit board or something.  The image above (top)  is what you see if you reverse the pieces, which is what I intend to do.

     I think I'll omit the shuttle - the scale is wrong, it needs to be half that size and then it's too small to paint anyway. :)

     I would like to do the following:

• file down the "circuit board" on the bottom so the pieces will fit into the ship backwards
• build a walkway to the upper-right of the shuttle
• paint an internal door on the walkway
• paint a larger shuttle door on the back wall
• paint the yellow-black warning marks on the floor beneath the shuttle

     So, that being said, I don't have the faintest clue exactly how this is going to work.. :)