Polar Lights 1/1000th TOS Enterprise build

Cool! Keep those pics coming.

Interesting image - the big grip on the ship!

I like... thanks for sharing. I will be getting my PLs ordered soon, too. I wanna run lights, etc. in them. Going to set to doing a variety of these - both the Fed ship and the Klingon.

Yeah, wasn't it "Who Mourns for Adonis?" that had the big hand holding onto the ship? (/geek).

Going out of town tonight for a week, so everything gets a week to dry out and set up completely.

BTW, there is a *lot* more light over my workspace than that and those are color corrected. Use a flash and everything floods out too much, don't and it looks like I'm shooting in the dark.

GeeK? Well then I are guilty as well. Because I think you must be some level of geek to be building these old ships. But to me they're a part of Sci Fi heritage, so yes, I have no problem preserving them!

I think you're right about the Star Trek episode name... I do remember the hand gripping the saucer. It was the god Apollo.

Updates.  Got busy with the real world, but I've gotten some time to do some assembly and painting.  By painting, I mean priming to see what needs further sanding.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benson-photo/sets/1300159/

And for some reason, Flickr likes to upload backwards, but they are in the correct order in the set.

Also, I owe some thanks to Dan Lee (http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/misc/scifi/leeent.htm) for his build experience.  20 hours filling and sanding is no exageration.

Enjoy.

TRIPPER - Nice job on that.  It looks real nice. Why so much filling and sanding?  Is the kit not well made or is it because it is a simple snap together kit?  I was planning on getting one and the Klingon D-7. 

I think it's because of the snap-together part.  Some of the parts don't so much as snap as squeeze and once together, it's a pain to get them to not leave a gap.  There's an article on it somewhere, where the maker ran into the same problems I'm having.

But, don't get me wrong, it's a cool kit and is well made and detailed.  Which overcome it's shortcomings by a wide margin.

I just wish Polar Lights had come out with a 1/350th version of the ship.  That would have been cool.