Star Trek Group build

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I used the Paragrafix PE and transparencies on the bridge of my PL TOS big E with great results.

The transparencies are very good quality and the PE blocks the light great. Even though it’s the size of a quarter it looks nice lit up.

I made a bit more progress on Spock today. I puttied and sanded Spock, got a coat of primer on him and started on the base. I also sprayed some test stripes of Luftwaffe light blue, Med ocean grey, and light pearl blue on some sheet styrene. I’m thinking of going with the Luftwaffe blue. It’s not exact but looks the best to me.

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Looking good! I agree with the Luftwaffe light blue, it looks good in the photo.

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Spock looks like he’s coming along pretty well so far. From the photo it looks like you’ve taken care of all the seams.

Luftwaffe light blue seems like it should be pretty close. Looking forward to seeing him all painted up.

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Thanks. The seams are bad! I’ve got most of them taken care of. The front and back of his shirt still needs work.

I’ll be out of the country for the next week, so not much more will get done on him until I’m back.

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My first entry was in the wrong thread…[:$]

Mach…I found a kit today at the LHS: So, I’m officially doing the Polar Lights 1:1000 Enterprise NX-01 Refit. Now, when I will start, is another matter entirely!!! [|-)]

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AND, I think, I’ll do it up as the NX-02 Columbia…so, I can do the NX-01 without Refit another time.

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Sounds cool Rob, I’d love to see either of them built up.

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I really like the size of the 1:1000 ships, nice and compact and don’t dominate shelf space.

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Great work everyone!

Quick update:

I ordered the Aztec Decal set for the 1/1000th Reliant (which includes the markings and registries for the Nautilus, Majestic, Brattain, Lantree, Tian An Men, and both Saratoga’s (the one from Star Trek IV, and the one from the first episode of DS9)), as well as another bonus: the 1/1000th Enterprise B (which has markings for the Lakota).

I only ordered all that straight from R2’s distributer (Autoworld) last Sunday, and it arrived quick, in only three days.

Anyhow, I’m thinking that I will mark my Reliant as the Brattain (from the TNG episode Night Terrors) or the Nautilus (my brother’s favorite from the sheet, which he thinks should have a dark-colored hull). I won’t be, however, intending to use the Aztec decals on this kit (I’ll probably end up buying one or two more Reliants to use up all the decal goodness from this sheet, so I’ll save the Aztecs for later)

Klik

P.S. let me be honest, I WILL end up buying a few more 1/1000th Reliant kits.

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Sounds really cool Klik- looking forward to her.

I primed Bones twice this weekend. As I said I’d laid some paint on him but wasn’t happy with it. I found a couple of gouges cut in his face and hands which I had to putty and sand out. No idea how they got there.

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I got the paints I needed for my Enterprise bridge kit on Saturday.

I cracked open the box to inspect everything. Looks like I’m good to go.

On the way home I stopped by the bookstore and looky what I got!

SCORE!

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Ohhhhhhhhhh very cool on both of those!!!

Just curious but is that the new boxing of the bridge? I hear they’d more chairs and additional figures (the old one only had Jim, Spock, and Sulu).

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I like the multiple “on screen” decal options you get.

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Nice find Beans! The classic Spock kit is getting hard to find.

I love the new bridge graphics. Those and the additional parts should make for

a much better bridge than the 1970’s kit.

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Beans,

Which view screen decal are you going to put on? The Klingon Battle Cruiser, Balok or the planet?

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I’m not sure about the boxing but it seems like I remember it (so many years ago).

Lotsa chairs.

Figures:

Ten heads to choose from. This is what I chose:

Three sitting males - Kirk, Sulu and Chekov.

Two standing males - Spock with his hands behind his back and McCoy with arms crossed.

One sitting female - Uhura.

I wish they had one more male figure to bring Scotty in the fold.

The extra heads are Lieutenants Latimer and Boma and Yeoman Mears; all from The Galileo Seven Episode.

I found some time to start assembling the figures…

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I haven’t decided. Maybe I should shrink this down and print this as a decal…

or this one…

or this one…

You guys will be the first to know my choice.

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I hear ya mach71. When Nimoy passed, my secondary reaction was to find the Spock kit (The Search For Spock or In Search Of…Spock). I came up empty handed after a lukewarm search. I knew like-minded modelers would be snagging up all the Spock models they could get their hands on. When I happened upon the Spock kit in the bookstore, I knew I had to snag it.

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That second (collage) option would a clever view screen option.

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I like the 1st one!