Build the Starship Enterprise from useless office supplies

For the Star Trek fan in every office, you too can build this NCC-1701 Enterprise from junk in your desk drawer. Easy to assemble. Impress your friends. Makes a great gift or holiday ornament.

Step 1: Parts

You will need:

3 medium size binder clips
1 large binder clip
1 sharpie pen
2 ink pens with colored end caps (or pencils). They need not be working.
3 CD's (one preferably silver and unscratched).
Glue stick
Hot melt glue gun or other adhesive (in a pinch, tape will also work).

Comments

[Derin]

A,B,C or D?

[crash770]

And NX-01, E, F, J, and XCV 330

[potatojesus]

I had waaaaaaay to much fun with this. I'm afraid my OCD took over and I went a little bit overboard. The colors were nail polish I raided from my wife's collection. The nubby thing on the saucer section is a piece of wax I molded using the bottom of a wine glass. Also I added a deflector array to the front of the hull (not pictured). It was a dime I pounded into a concave shape. Thanks for the fun project.

[spizman]

Just letting you know,but defacing government coins is illegal.

[Aethereal]

Only if it has the Queen on it; you can draw on American bills and wreck the coins. You're not supposed to, but it's not illegal. It is if it's a Canadian dime though xP

[tinkerC]

THIS. LOOKS. AWESOME! Could you please make an instructable on this, I would LOVE to get as good results as you did. Amazing work, BTW!

[Keira_Yagami]

how did u get the little hump in the center. U did great on this it rocks!

[potatojesus]

I had a wine goblet that I used as a mold. I took a tea candle and took out the wick. I sprayed the inside of the goblet with cooking spray then put the candle in the goblet. Then I stuck it in the microwave to melt the wax. After it melted into the bottom of the goblet I put the goblet in the frig so it would set up. With some gentle prying, the molded piece of wax popped right out. I made two, one for the bottom and one for the top of the saucer section. I did have to sand to flat part of the wax a bit to flatten it a bit. Then I glued to to the saucer.

[musicalbee2003]

I would really like to see the bottom and front of yours. Would you mind posting a few more pics?

[potatojesus]

here you go.

[TFElite]

how did you get the letters?

[Keira_Yagami]

sweetness! I'm gonna have to do this. (Once i find my Glue Gun)

[Jetpack5]

Awesome!

[sploge]

pure genius could not be better ...unless it really flies...... wait does it really fly ........

[spizman]

Probbably would if you put wings on it(or a rocket engine. XD)

[sierrabravo]

KHAAAN!!!  This is awesome, i'll have to do this at work tonight (although I bet some buzz-kill will ruin it...)

[spizman]

That, or the Klingon Empire!!! Muahahaha! MUAhaha!MUAHAHAHAHAHA--
*cough* *cough* *wheeze*

[tinkerC]

I LOVE THIS! Next trick: The Enterprise D, or E :). This is one Instructable I am going to build in the next two minutes!

[spizman]

:( u furgots the NX-1

[chellspecker]

Great model! The first link above, to cloudster dot com doesn't seem to work. It looks like that domain isn't registered. Are you sure it's the correct link? The other one is fine. Thanks.

[spookylean]

Here's a little homage:

http://www.instructables.com/id/X-Wing-Fighter-from-Office-Supplies/

[endeavourkid]

Cool

[ddarkeststar]

I don't imagine they leave you alone in the supply cupboard very often. :-)
Excellent models

[idkwthiam]

omfg!!! love it. mom is a trekie. im new .will someone please show me how to make reliant.ill be your bestest buddie.Q("Q)

[Mirime]

Frekin' awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I have to make one to annoy older sis....... that Pa'tak.......... dosen't even know who the klingons are:( oh well gess she'll learn soon ;D

[yoyonut]

amazing my dad is a huge treky, he will love it!

[ryanninjasheep]

How are you supposed to take the handles off??

[S5114]

you squeeze them hard and they come off easily.

[ryanninjasheep]

oh

[ryanninjasheep]

THIS IS SO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ryanninjasheep]

imagine this in space with captain picard on it! woo-hoo

[NutandBolt]

Great  instructable So simple and it looks great. Will be cool to make starfleet from stuff we have around. keep on the good work. fellow trekkie.

[XOIIO]

Bird of prey would lookfantastic! I love this instructable!

[chrisofec]

Great, easy project!  People who walk into my office immediately take notice of it!  Here's mine...had to use pencils, but thought it came out pretty good.

[twocvbloke]

You forgot the "rollbar" on the Reliant model, you have to have the rollbar otherwise it's just a Miranda v.II (Miranda being the class of ship)... :) Love the models though... :D

[TyMan210]

 That's exactly what I thought!

[builder968]

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9576/eterkhan.html

[Brucie83]

Wow! I want to see more Star Trek ships now! Or any Sci-Fi ships! Keep it up!

[Gamer917]

im going to make a paper star destroyer soon i might post an instructable

[Gamer917]

yes it will be an imperial class stardestroyer

[chaderoo2]

They have a E enterprize from picard to.

[xstarsprinklesx]

This is awesome! =) I just featured it in my weekly column on Fandomania:

http://fandomania.com/fandomestic-ten-trek-tributes/

[TheMoonMaster]

I'll make it... so.

[lucariothelegend]

heeheeeheeeeeeee

[Keira_Yagami]

Can u use the Hot glue to glue the Cds together?

[musicalbee2003]

NERDGASM!! YES!!!!1!

[musicalbee2003]

Here's mine! I just whipped it together in 20 minutes. I'll probably improve it as I find better parts and ways to configure the components.
Next up:
The space museum Fuseli from the webcomic Starlslip
Serenity from firefly.
these will probably be quite difficult to find parts for.

[Dilong_paradoxus]

Awesome! I'm going to build it soon!

[abadfart]

nice my frind is a huge trecky you just gave me his present

[jillg]

building one right now live long and prosper

[Epimetheus]

Haha I can't stop laughing. Awesome.

[incorrigible packrat]

On seeing the Reliant, I have the strangest urge to yell out, "KHAN", so that it impossibly echoes through space (note the cleverly split infinitive)...

[klytning]

now this is creative re-use /alternative use! ::wanders off to locate all necessary components::

[Datman]

Genius!

[cheeseboy]

wow a bit of paint and those would look like proper ones, but that would destroy the things on your desk objective. These look really nice! live long and prosper!

[cmrc]

Very cool. I built one of these a few years ago while I was on a conference call from Hades! Yours are much better. Live long and prosper :D

[AznPanda]

lOl LoL That is funny so funny it is good!!!! lawl!!!

[yatwoman]

I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying...!

[starwing123]

awesome! How about the defiant?

[synthz]

Sweet!!!!!

[bounty1012]

XD The office enterprise.... 4/5

[guitarman63mm]

How reliable is it as an improvised weapon?

[hellstudios]

add some spikes (thumb tacks) and it will take an eye or two.

[BadMonkey63]

Very cool!!!!!

[Carlos Marmo]

Nice!!! Rs....

[sir bobby]

OMG This is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[emergencydpt.com]

Live long and prosper...at your new job! Ha ha ha. I thought I was the last trekie. Thank god you are there to shine the light of future civilization on the unwashed masses of present day earthlings. Nanoo nanoo!

[super-random]

nice work this keep me from really having to do "work" four a coulpe of hours... thanks 4 not triping off nontrip stuff

[Tool Using Animal]

Fabulous!111

[ScreenRant.com]

I am SO going to do this... just need to raid the office supplies. :-)

Vic
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[RicoSPD]

Same here... now, someone should do a Borg cube using 3-1/2" floppies. :o)

[Transquesta]

This is frappin' MacGuyver-type genius, I tell ya! Doood! I want you on my survival trip through Cubicle-ville.

[shooby]

Haah yeah! Nice work! I was surprised to find that you'd made these out of trash-bound items (other than the paperclips of course, but those can still be used after the Enterprise is blasted to bits. This is really cool, and probably fun to challenge people at the office.

[canida]

These are awesome. ;)