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A Star Trek<\/em> fan has almost finished building a rather colorful eighteen foot long model of the USS Enterprise.<\/p>\n The large model, which dominates his one-bedroom apartment is made of cardboard and plastic.<\/p>\n Bob Elson<\/strong>, a retired hospital administrator, has been building USS Enterprise models since his childhood days. “When he was very young and [Star Trek<\/em>] hadn’t been on for very long, we both fell in love with the Enterprise and the story,” said his mother, Margaret Elson<\/strong>. “He made models of the Enterprise out of thin cardboard, and people really liked them. He took them to a school fair and what have you, and people just slopped them up.”<\/p>\n Those models sold for a dime each back in the day, but Elson hopes to sell his latest one for much more, or else donate it to a museum.<\/p>\n “It’s an obsession almost,” said Elson. “I just like the design of it. It’s a milestone. I’ll be finished \u2014 and I can say I did it, and I didn’t give up.”<\/p>\n The model is made from cardboard tubes, planter holders, tiny Army men, plastic guns, Popsicle<\/em> sticks, Ping-Pong balls and disposable razor covers. It weights one-hundred-and-twenty-five pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Star Trek fan has almost finished building a rather colorful eighteen foot long model…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416],"tags":[3112,3680],"class_list":["post-40806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","tag-model","tag-ship"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40808,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40806\/revisions\/40808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}