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Surprisingly I'm rather on time with this milestone/update! Yesterday the last of the decals has been applied and the Miranda-class model has been put away until my Birthday in a few months.

We ended up using third-party decals because the supplied set was very low quality. We also got some additional detailing decals we would not've had otherwise. Surprisingly the decal we struggled with the most was the ones for the phaser turrets - which wasn't something I was personally expecting. Overall I'm pleased how the entire thing has came out: it looks super pretty (even with the lights off) and I could just look at it for ages! 👀

I think I will take a few photos when I do get this model on my birthday... but the project is basically done, and I'm surprised how quick it (relatively) took to build the model considering me and Dad started at the beginning of April! :apartyblobcat:

🤯🤯 Very happy to see my #paper: "Positioning of the #lowcode movement within the field of model-driven engineering" (modeling-languages.com/low-cod) as one of the top cited papers of the #MODELS conference (according to #ACM dl.acm.org/conference/models).

I'm especially happy because:
☑️ It's a #workshop paper. We should not forget the value of discussing our ideas. Even if they have not fully developed. And even less validated. Ideas and discussions are still very valuable for #research advancement

☑️It's a #single #author paper. I think it's important for any researcher to still publish single papers from time to time. Obviously, these papers will most likely workshop contributions (or similars) as current validation trends make it very difficult for a single author to "check all the boxes" (maybe with #LLMs...). But it's always something especial when you work alone.

Google Trends: model-driven (red) vs low-code (blue)
Modeling Languages · Low-code vs model-driven: are they the same?I don't see any significant technical novelty in the low-code movement. But I do not see this as being negative. More the opposite. Read why I think the low-code movement represents a great opportunity for the modeling community.

If, like me, you're a fan of the "Slice of Life" guys, you'll be happy that LEGO discovered them & asked them to help with a little promo film... what would you say if I told you that almost every single detail of this was filmed for real, in-camera, with models?

Because that's what Luka, Dino & the SoL crew are really, really good at, as I think we can all agree looking at this little film 🤯🤩

youtube.com/watch?v=JBOvsWa4hPI

BTS below 👇

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Another update, another month where I didn't get around to doing it. 😅

A lot of progress once again has happened: The navigation lights (single red/green and white LED bulbs) has been added and soldered into a central wiring loom. A logic board (that's part of the lighting kit) has been stuck in place with silicone, and is connected to the wiring loom for each light that's going on.

Next up was the assembly, which involved lining up the warp nacelle struts into place (along with aligning them to be perfectly straight), and then adding the overhead torpedo launchers. Obviously the saucer section is sealed too. About 98% of the model is sealed with silicone; the idea is that if a bulb fails the model can be opened up again if needed. I think this kit has some QC-issues as the tolerances seems too high - leading to large gaps between pieces being prominent...

It's the home run now: some touch-ups of light leakage, and the decals then it's done!

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It's hard to believe it's virtually been a month since I last posted an update!

The underneath defector dish section had it's second coat of paint not long after my last post - getting rid of the unintentional "battle damage" look with the 2 greys. It only had 2 coats in total and it has ended up looking very good!

Dad has spent most of the month applying some aztecing decals to the model; we both agreed that this was outside my capabilities (it was borderline with Dad's)... It was frustrating and finically getting the decals on the model, but I think the end result is very visually appealing. An additional coat of white paint was also applied before the photo as the decal's shade of grey was too dark.

Most recently we've started to wire up a lighting kit designed for this specific Reliant model AMT sells. So far only the nacelles are wired up with the LEDs. First time I got to see light pass the clearcoat blue on the inner nacelle. :FishPog: