Hi Woody........of course any sci-fi kit would be in the future.........just kidding.....poor attempt at a joke.

Although my first sci-fi kit, I did enjoy it and have thought about doing a "newer" Enterprise.  Not sure when.....still have 55 kits unbuilt in the stash.

RODC

Very nicely done. Anymore ships in the future?

Rod,

Looks very nice!  I like the custom base.  Instead of a decal, think of going to a trophy shop and getting a little brass plate engraved with the ship name and the star fleet insignia.  I did this with my Klingon Bird of prey, it had sticky back on it, so all I had to do was position it on the base and voilà!

I even took them a couple trek fonts, including the Klingon lettering, and they printed it in that style! 

Hope this helps!

Chris

Great job!

The old AMT kit isn't the best kit in the world but you did a beautiful job on her! I destroyed two of these kits back in the '80s trying to light them, never got one build...

"the intercoolers on the tops of the warp engines should be turned 180 degrees, the rounded end faces rear."

The photos in Kalmbach's "Famous Spaceships of fact and fantasy" show this to be true. I wonder if the instruction set had them wrong, as I also have them "backwards". I may still have those instructions, buried in a ton of other instruction sets, I'll have to see if I can find them.......just to satisfy my own curiosity.

Thanks for the comments Midnightprowler - they are certainly appreciated.  Instructions with the kit are very poor and I never bothered to do much research on the subject other than trying to determine a color scheme which was also missing thus the reversed placement of the intercoolers.  Good catch of the filling of the engraverd detail.  The fit there was awful and so while I was sanding, I sanded away the engraved line.  I was going to re-engrave and thought...........nah........I want this to look a little different than the Enterprise.  Since I wanted something a little different, I chose the USS Yorktown (my 2nd favorite WW2 Carrier after the Hornet), painted a slightly darker gray, made the sensor array copper colored, etc.

The decal sheet was a monster - actually the full size of the box which was something on the order of 10" x 14" or so.  It now exists in much smaller pieces.  If you would like the extra decals, send me a PM with your mailing address.......you are more than welcome to them.......

Thanks for the input!

RODC

You did her proud!  Great job.  I want to point out a couple of things, they are not a criticizm of your build, just letting you know for if you do another, the intercoolers on the tops of the warp engines should be turned 180 degrees, the rounded end faces rear.  Also, there should have been ribbed engraving on the fropnt of each warp engine, behind the round caps.  Looks like you filled it.  Other than that, great work.  Why the USS Yorktown?  So, all those decals came in the kit?  Look like AMT improved the decal sheet.  If you dont want the rest of them, I'll take em off your hands! :)