The Star Fleet Assembly Manual was a series of three manuals, written by Paul M. Newitt, to assemble AMT plastic models of the USS Enterprise and a Klingon D7-class battle cruiser.
The first volume was published in 1977 and focused on the Enterprise model; the second, published in 1978, focused on the Klingon shop; and the third (also 1978) consisted of instructions on making the Enterprise a lighted model.
In addition to instructions on assembly and painting of the models, there was also in-universe fanon about the San Francisco Fleet Yards.
A Ultimate Modeling Edition of the manuals, which was a trade paperback combining all three manuals with some additional content, was published in 2004.