Romulan Warbird

Trekkie, did you ever get this model finished?

Would love to see it!

Some darkening around the disruptor emiters and having the leading edges and areas around the warpdrive lighter seems about right.


I can look for some more pics for you if you'd like but startrek.com has a lot of pics that might help.

Hi, on the actual studio models, there is also a subtle overspray of a lighter colour, almost white, on the panel lines and leading edges, with some blending to the hull colour. Check out the pics at the IDIC page. Cheers, Chris

I some how missed this post. I'm not sure what level of construction your looking for,but I tell you how I handled mine.
Because of the double hull design you will have to strategically plan your painting/detailng sequence. Construct the upper and lower hull,the "head"or forward section, the rear pylon,and the nacelles. Take each of the 6 sub-assmblies and construct the model using masking tape to hold the completed model together. When you fell the alignment is to your liking, glue the forward section to the top hull. Then attatch the rear pylon to the lower hull.
Now remove the tape and you're left with 4 sub-assemlies which should not be glued together - the upper hull and head, the lower hull and rear pylon,and the two nacellels.
Paint ,detail,and weather the interior portions of each hull.
Now complete the construction of the model. the parts of the model that would now be extremely difficult to detail- due to the limited space available between the hulls- are now already painted. Now you have only to mask the pre-painted interior to prevent overspray and such that might occur while finishing the outer hulls. Any painted areas that may have been affected during the final construction should be easily accessible and can be refinished.
The many panels make it very easy to touch up painting and detailing as each panel can be masked and painted separtely, and in theory no two panels are the same anyway.

I liked the way this one was painted up. My airbrushing skills aren't quite up to that level though: http://www.starshipmodeler.org/gallery9/ipms_04/tk_ipmsnats04_sf_55_jd_ships11.jpg

I thank you for the compliment StevenQ ! Just so happens jimmyd30 built and detailed that model.

Wow! Jimmy, you did a fine job on that. Much nicer than the green look of TNG first introducing the return of the Romulans.

Yes very nice indeed. I saved the pic to my computer to use it as a reference to paint my own, someday. Again, very nice airbrushing.