SEARCH FINESCALE.COM

Enter keywords or a search phrase below:

AMT's classic TOS Enterprise-the last batch of pics from me today

1674 views
5 replies
1 rating 2 rating 3 rating 4 rating 5 rating
  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: NW Washington
AMT's classic TOS Enterprise-the last batch of pics from me today
Posted by dirkpitt77 on Saturday, July 16, 2011 6:03 PM

   I got this AMT kit for Christmas from my wife.  It's not quite finished-I need to secure the rear support under the hull, without which it has an unfortunate downward tilt that you'll notice in the pics.  It also needs a flat coat and perhaps a bit of weathering.  BUT.....I'm gonna post up pics anyway because I'm taking a break from it.

 

    As you might expect, the build was tricky.  Nothing lined up and there was quite a bit of sanding and scratch construction involved in order to get the hull pieces to go together solidly.  I installed a long bolt into the secondary hull as I planned how to mount the ship, then I continued the build around that.  I made a wooden base for it and had a graphics printer print me up the emblems you see attached to it.  Those I ripped off the internet (and kudos to whoever the original artist was on those-I never could find out).  I was going for a kind of classic "ship on the ways" look with the stand.  I used a hole saw to cut the vertical support "cradles".  I'm not fond of the way Polar Lights prints their decals.  They are unwieldy in shape and excessively overzealous in what they try to cover with one decal, in particular the windows.  I ended up cutting quite a few of them down to a smaller size in order to apply them.    I gave the bussard scoops a base coat of chrome silver, and then oversprayed a coat of turn signal yellow and a coat of clear red, which gave them a nice sparkly red-orange look.  The pics don't do those justice.  I'm pretty happy with how it turned out so far.  Check out the pics:

 

 

 

  I chose to do the navigational deflector in a rust/orange/red color to give it a retro look similar to the box art.  This pic makes it look cherry red, but it's similar to the color of Bondo glazing putty.  I think it turned out pretty good as well:

 

 

 

 

This pic is not quite square head on.  The nacelle's are actually lined up much better than the pic lets on:

 

 

 

 

 

     Well, there she is.  Enjoy.

 

   ---Chris

    "Some say the alien didn't die in the crash.  It survived and drank whiskey and played poker with the locals 'til the Texas Rangers caught wind of it and shot it dead."

  • Member since
    August 2009
  • From: Borlando Fla home of the rat
Posted by TREYZX10R on Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:44 PM

Great looking build Chris

  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: NW Washington
Posted by dirkpitt77 on Sunday, July 17, 2011 2:59 PM

Thanks!

    "Some say the alien didn't die in the crash.  It survived and drank whiskey and played poker with the locals 'til the Texas Rangers caught wind of it and shot it dead."

  • Member since
    August 2011
  • From: Torrance, California
Posted by BruceAdama on Saturday, August 6, 2011 4:00 AM

Very nice... I like the color of gray you used for the hull.

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Saturday, August 6, 2011 6:06 AM

Really nice job you have done on this. I really must get this kit again as my first attempt was awful. And i seem to remember a few issues with the fit.

Like the way you have displayed it as well.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
    April 2010
  • From: San Diego, CA, USA
Posted by Gerry on Saturday, August 6, 2011 10:02 AM

One of the most horribly fitting models. But that gives us plenty of detail to work on :)

Great job building it! Really nicely done.

Gerry ...Young at Heart - Other parts slightly older.

JOIN OUR COMMUNITY!

Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.

SEARCH FORUMS
FREE NEWSLETTER
By signing up you may also receive reader surveys and occasional special offers. We do not sell, rent or trade our email lists. View our Privacy Policy.