Scratch Build Gorn Ships

Hey gang,

I constructed a couple Gorn Frigates (Gorns are a race used in Star Fleet
Battles if you're unfamiliar with the name). The smallest Gorn models I had
were Destroyers but they looked more like Cruisers compared to the other ship
models that I have in my collection so I thought it would be neat to try and
build some frigates from scratch.

I bought some WOODEN shirt buttons from an art store, glued two toothpics in
the holes, snapped them off and sanded them flush with the button. This formed
the front saucer section. I bought a huge bag of wooden dollhouse shingles
(balsa wood). These were great because I could build a wide variety of hulls
from them with an Xacto knife. I cut the hull out in layers and glued them
together. I used my dremel tool to sand the edges smooth. I used two small
pieces of cut balsa shingles glued to the hull to support the warp engines
(ok, toothpicks) in place.

The best part about it was that other players had to be TOLD that the ship was
scratch built. Everyone thought it was another model from the Task Force Games
SFB figures. I got alot of shaking heads and comments like... "Too much free
time". It made my day.

Pete