I christen thee the U.S.S. Ineptitude

It’s finally finished.  I put the final coat of matte finish on ye olde Enterprife yesterday and brought the sad specimen to my office to proudly(?) display on my desk.
Here she is, warts and all.  Click pics to embiggen.
 
Doesn’t look too bad from a distance, does it?
The major flaw that will stand out immediately [...]

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You came in that thing? You’re braver than I thought.

I may have broken some universal law by using a Star Wars quote to describe a Star Trek project, but if Princess Leia thought the Falcon looked bad, she would never have stepped foot inside the pitiful Enterprise I’m attempting to build. 
I have all but ruined the model by making every type of mistake [...]

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A sadder and wiser man, He rose the morrow morn

He prayeth well, who loveth wellBoth man and bird and beast.

[You down with S.T.C.?]
Last night a wasp infiltrated our home.  I’m normally very tolerant with the lesser of God’s creatures, but when it comes to things that sting I kill on sight.
I grabbed my battle-scarred flyswatter and went on the assault.  I felled my foe [...]

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This might be a 5-year mission

I began construction on my Polar Lights 1:1000 Enterprise today.  It wasn’t long before I was reminded why I quit building models:  I stink at it.
Fortunately this is just my practice kit, because I’ve made several stupid mistakes already.  As a matter of fact I think I’ve already ruined it by trying to remove some [...]

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Beans don’t burn on the grill

Inexplicably the podcast I do with Spike Nesmith continues to get more popular every week.  It has become so popular, in fact, that we have officially outgrown the free podcast host we were using.  Thanks to all of your downloads we exceeded our monthly bandwidth limit!
What a nice problem to have.
So now we’re movin’ on [...]

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To boldly glue…

When I was a young lad one of my favorite hobbies was building models.  Plastic cars with crooked wheels, visible blobs of dried glue, and wrinkled decals littered my bookshelves for many years.
Like most of my interests that didn’t involve girls, videogames, music, or girls it faded away in my teens.  But recently the urge [...]

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Unfortunate Twitter juxtaposition

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