A bit of history for my build, I bought my Big E on e-bay prebuilt. A bloke built it and told his dad to bin it when he left home but his dad, fair play to him, put it on e-bay instead. A nice enough job, but I intended going the detail route with this anyway. Great thing was that the lad used automotive paint to spray the hull and flight deck with the inevitable melting that ensued, AS it turns out, a very expensive mistake that catches a lot of novices out.
Not deterred, the lad went out and bought a second kit, so I had a Built and painted E with a complete set of sprues for everything else, all I had to do was strip it! I was going to wait a year or two collecting the extras I wanted and thought it would be nice to have the lads build sitting on a shelf gathering dust and inspiration but the gods decided to trash it in transit so I started early.
There is also the fact that looking at A.M.Jorges fantastic build has sent my impatience braincells into overload.
Stage 1. I have unbuilt the kit, every part has been removed leaving a painted hull and the three sections of the flight deck. Not a bad result so far considering it was put together with a tube of polystyrene cement and every thing is off except the two parts of the hull which will not come apart, no biggie as he has done a nice job of lining the bow up with the hull.
Stage 2. This will be the systematic clean-up of the two hull and three deck pieces, there are glue marks to be sanded down, new locating points to be drilled and the paint to be removed, when this is done, I will have a complete Tamiya Enterprise for 40.00 GBP. I have seen them advertised new in the UK for around 150.00 GBP so the saving will pay for the new Decals, Brasswork and Aircraft.
I have lots of pics to post already but as some of you may have seen on my Slava Class post, I can't quite get the hang of getting pics from my computer onto these forums. Please bear with me, it might just be worth it!