Deep Space Nine station whiffing possibilities?

[seadude]

I bought the AMT 1/3300 scale Star Trek Deep Space Nine space station kit yesterday at a local hobby store. Other than the two possibilities listed below, what other whiffing recommendations does anybody have?

a) Build straight from the box as Deep Space Nine.
b) Build as a military space station with more weapons, fighter bays, etc.

This is the kit I have. It is completely molded in clear plastic.

[pyro-manic]

Switch the big "arms" around so they point outwards, possibly from the central "hub"? The ends would be more useful as docking points for large ships.

If it's cast in clear plastic, then it's a prime candidate for lighting. a few LEDs at strategic points, and mask off hundreds of tiny dots for windows....

Turn it sideways, and make it a jump gate of some kind. Take out the middle structures, and add more around the edges.

[kitnut617]

Well considering it is a 'whiff' anyway    , you can do anything you like to it ---

[PR19_Kit]

I reckon it'd make a good coffee mug holder......... 

[Martin H]

its a tad bigger than that Kit more like the size of a camp stove....................

[PR19_Kit]

its a tad bigger than that Kit more like the size of a camp stove....................

OK, a teapot stand then? 

[zenrat]

Lamp shade?
Hat?
With legs or floats and in a fish tank - an oil rig/deep sea space port/floating hotel/Thunderbirds base

[Captain Canada]

More bays for sure.

[zenrat]

Theme park.  roller coasters up and down and around the pylons.  Use tube with moving LEDs inside to represent the cars.

[Runway ? ...]

Drawing a blank with the 'station but how much Defiant (A-10) do you get in the box?

If you get my meaning.

[andrewj]

I bought the AMT 1/3300 scale Star Trek Deep Space Nine space station kit yesterday at a local hobby store. Other than the two possibilities listed below, what other whiffing recommendations does anybody have?

a) Build straight from the box as Deep Space Nine.
b) Build as a military space station with more weapons, fighter bays, etc.

This is the kit I have. It is completely molded in clear plastic.

DS9 was a military space station , built by the Cardashians to police their occupation of Bajor.

Andrew

[seadude]

The more I think about it, the more I want to build it straight from the box and just have a few Star Trek ships docked along with it. But damn! Getting the scale right is tough.  The box says 1/3300. But most other sites I've read say 1/2500. And further sites say the STDSN production crew never adhered to a standard scale when it came to showing ships docked at the station or near the station on tv.  And yet other modelers swear their 1/2500 Cadet series ST ships look ok next to the DSN station. I'm just not sure what to do. And to top it off, I found these at a local model store today:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Official_Starships_Collection
Each ship is in a slightly different scale. I bought the: Akira, Dauntless, Equinox, Prometheus, and the Nebula.

[scooter]

Did some number crunching on this useful conversion site, and the scale is actually around 1/3500, given a model diameter of 16" (rounded down), and the canon diameter of 1451.82m (from DITL.org).  But since most Star Trek kits are basically a Whiff in a box, I say do it how you want to do it, and how good it looks with the Starship Collection kit models.

And had AMT/ERTL done DS9 in "official" scales the diameters would be (rounded nearest 1/10 inch)-

1/48- 1190.8"
1/72- 793.9"
1/76- 752.1"
1/100- 571.6"
1/144- 396.3"
1/200- 285.8"
1/350- 163.3"
1/700- 81.7"
1/1000- 57.2"
1/1200- 43.6"

[Weaver]

DS9 was a military space station , built by the Cardashians to police their occupation of Bajor.

Andrew

*Cardassians, but I love the freudian slip......