Anybody else want to murder things after trying to glue together a model of the Enterprise?

I got really into making spaceship models as a teen and I remember getting a model of the Enterprise-A for Christmas back in the early 90s.

I was visiting my aunt and uncle at the time, so I had to build it down in their basement work room. I wanted to murder things by the end. No matter which position I left it in, whether or not I had it inside a vice, propped up against something else, sandwiched in between objects, I could NOT get the saucer to stay connected to the forward “throat” section (the one that connects the saucer to the engineering hull). It would always fall.

I succeeded at some point because I remember hanging it up, fully built, but man the process of getting the saucer to stay connected was pure 100% frustration for an 8th grade kid.

Barring their sci fi super materials and the structural integrity field, a real-life Enterprise shape would just crumble under normal gravity, wouldn’t it?