Nacells and pylons

Enterprise01 · Post by **Enterprise01** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 1:17 pm

Anyone ever have any trouble with keeping the pylons and nacelles at the proper angle? Just curious.

Ziz · Post by **Ziz** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 1:27 pm

Use Legos or corrugated cardboard to build a jig to hold things at the proper angle until the glue dries.

Johnnycrash · Post by **Johnnycrash** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 1:39 pm

Enterprise01 wrote:Anyone ever have any trouble with keeping the pylons and nacelles at the proper angle? Just curious.

Nope. I just leave them unattached and in the box. Never had any sagging or alignment issues.

What Ziz said.

In some cases with nacelles, you may need to add some weight to the front/back to help balance them at the attachment point on the pylon. That imbalance puts torque on the mount, and can lead to the issues. Of course now, with more weight, the pylon gets more stressed... Ugh!!

The LEGO jig is a really good idea. It's easy to make both sides equal. You may need to shim up the hull to get the nacelles/pylons at the right level to meet at the top of the LEGO, but... We all have enough jun... uh... stuff, laying about to do that.

And when you think the glue is dry... Wait another 24 hours.

Trust me.

Enterprise01 · Post by **Enterprise01** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 3:33 pm

Would never have thought of it. But it does make a lot of sense.
Thanks.

irishtrek · Post by **irishtrek** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:59 pm

Another method is to leave it sit upside down until the glue dries.

imatt88 · Post by **imatt88** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:53 am

Has anyone tried using rod to add strength to the pylons during assembly
i.e. AMT/ERTL 1701A?

I used to turn mine upside down, seemed to work for me..

Cheers, Ian

irishtrek · Post by **irishtrek** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:53 am

The rod would have to be on the thin side and have enough strength to support the pylons and nacelles.

raser13 · Post by **raser13** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:53 pm

brass bar is what i used. but i also added a little bit of thickness to mine to make it a little more accurate.

naoto · Post by **naoto** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:29 pm

It does sort of make sense that people would have trouble with alignment of warp nacelles...

One thing that was a head-scratcher is how from certain angles, the nacelles on the old TOS Enterprise kit from AMT or the one from Estes would often look like one of the nacelles is misaligned. You look at the model from top, bottom, side, front and back and everything looks OK. You take measurements and they tell you everything is OK. But if you look at the model from certain angles, the nacelles end up looking like they are splayed out or at different angles. Perhaps it has to do with the nacelles being cylindrical on the model, whereas the miniature had a taper to them.

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