Scale: 1/72
Shuttlecraft 01 Tereshkova, was a heavy duty shuttlecraft aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-C. The shuttlecraft was named in honour of the first woman In space, Valentina Tereshkova, and was aboard the first starship Enterprise to have a female captain. This shuttlecraft design was short-lived and was replaced by the more advanced, yet smaller, Mark 7.
Since buying the Runabout kit when it was released the first time around, I had wondered about the possibility of using the hull but with different nacelles to create a shuttle that was in keeping with the rest of Starfleet canon and less boxy. My vision with this project was to create a piece of 'lost history' with something that looks as though it could credibly have been aboard the Enterprise C. In keeping with Starfleet design tradition, it has scaled down warp nacelle technology from its parent vessel, which was an Ambassador class starship.
The model is made almost entirely from the Ertl Runabout kit with the nacelles and pylons from the 1/1400 scale Enterprise C. Other parts were scratch built. Greeblies come from a Tamiya WW2 anti-aircraft gun, other miscellaneous military parts and the large grille on the hull is from the Monogram Maquis Raider kit. The bussard collectors are solid resin ones from the Starship Modeller Store.
Half of the cargo pod was removed to shorten the hull. The top part of the Runabout hull was carefully cut away, then the layer beneath. The side walls were cut along the panel lines. The upper parts of the hull were then sliced into smaller pieces and then joined back together. I used sheet styrene and box section styrene rod for internal reinforcement. The impulse engine pods where made from the Runabout's sensor pod pylons. These had over a dozen parts in each one and the front parts were scratch built.
Car body filler was used to smooth over the side walls and also to fill in a lot of the imperfections. New windows were made from acrylic sheet and the front window was heated and bent to complement the hull profile. Some of the decals are custom made, others come from the Enterprise C kit.
