Starfleet Assembly Manual
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| Title: | Starfleet Assembly Manual |
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| Editor(s): | Paul M. Newitt |
| Date(s): | 1977-1981 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
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Starfleet Assembly Manual is by Paul M. Newitt.
The series can be seen at Star Trek: Technical Manuals Book Guide, Archived version.
Issue 1
1977
It sold for 50 cents in 1977.
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1
If you are into model making or even building models from scratch this booklet should be an invaluable guide to you. This 50 page booklet explains in tremendously exacting detail how to go about producing the most spectacular model you could ever imagine...by yourself. Although this booklet doesn't go into heavy, extended discussion of the art of model building from
scratch—it predominantly covers the correct procedures to use in building the Star Trek model kits purchaseable in stores. Ah - you say, but those kits come with instructions on building the models. And so I thought before opening this booklet, which goes beyond the simplistic instructions that come included with the box. The Star Fleet Assembly Manual gets into sanding and filing, airbrushing, the proper way the glue seams and all the 1001 details that somehow keeps your personally built models from looking "just right." There are scads of photos to show if you just what's happening, and every possible concession is made for the sake of the beginner, including a valuable list of the proper types of paints, listing a variety of brand names to choose from. The booklet as a whole is designed very much like Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual, with similar layout and even a few pages of military-like gobble-deegook that someone must have had fun inventing. And the centerfold pages contain a beautiful print of the Enterprise being built in space, with an accompanying text inside on the ship yards that built it. Of course, if you just aren't into model building, save your money, but if you are, get this one for sure. [1]
Issue 2
1978
Issue 3
1978
Issue 4
1982