Looking really nice Rob!

She looks fantastic there Rob, if they all go down this well I'd say the money on the decals was well spent.

This is where she sits as of last nite..all dry and ready to start on the underside this weekend:

Yikes, it does suck to cover up all the paint after you did all those panels but the decals are going to look really cool! I'm amazed they went down that well on the complex curves of the secondary hull!

Wow, this is tedious...here's after an hour+ of decaling...VERY tedious, but, I like the look...it's a bit 'out there' but it's not as bold as I thought. The imagery is kind of pixley (not a word, I know ) so, it's quite transparent. I don't believe, at the end, you'll be able to tell the two tone I did prior to decalling, so, that was a waste of time, oh well 

Hey man, that looks alright.  

So, this is what it's going to look like. The decals are a bit darker than I thought they'd be against the light grey, but, I suspect that's because they were originally designed to be put over the original NX gunmetal finish so they'd stand out. They are faint on the nacelles, so, I'm thinking it'll be the same on the saucer section. We'll see tonite:

Thanks guys, hope to get to the massive decal job tonite.

Rob,

That looks sweet bro!

Rob, looks really good!

Wow Rob, That is looking sharp!

I got a bit of detail painting done on Spock. No photos unfortunately.

More progress tonite. Got some two tone going with some grey highlights. I did a faint light blue around the circumference of the outer rim of the main saucer section. Also, the first coat of clear on so I'll let that set up overnight.

I've seen guys do both paint jobs: Gun metal and light grey, so, I'm going with the latter.

Afraid I don't know much about the NX refit but she looks pretty cool to me.

Thanks guys. Got the base coat of IJN grey put down tonite. Gonna let that set up and start hitting panels with a lightened hue and then a darker grey will be put in many areas according to the plan. Sorta weird not painting a NX gun metal, but, she's the refit, so, it sorta makes sense. I've seen lots of pics of it in standard Federation livery, so, I'm convinced it's gonna look cool!

Yah Rob, your NX-01 refit is looking nice!

Rob,

That really slammed together fast., can't wait to see it with the decals. Hmmmm. I was starting to think about building the Defiant, but now I'm not so sure. Your NX-1 looks really nice.

Looks good Rob, she's coming along great!

And, here's where I'll leave off for tonite. The engineering section and nacelles are not glued on yet to ease that massive decalling job pending...

I got a start on my NX-01 Refit today. I have to say, thus far, this is a well detailed kit for 1/1000 scale. The plastic is very hard too, I"m not used to that. The snap-together engineering is well done and is finished off nicely with normal Tamiya liquid cement. Anyway, not much to show as there's not much to build: only 4 steps and here's the first two:

Engineering section

Main hull:

As for my colour concern from my earlier post, I now longer am worried. This version will not be gunmetal grey. It's actually Light Grey (or Tamiya XF-12 IJN grey) according to the instructions. This is good news as my massive decalling set will be well shown against that colour. It will be a marathon job getting it done though!! Anyway, to introduce some colour variation, I will use several hues of the grey to increase visual interest and even some very very light hints of blue in some areas, just for variety. Will it all be seen under all those decals? Dunno...we'll see soon...

Yeah, Gam, that's what I'm gonna have to do. Lightening gunmetal grey will be difficult. I think I'm being paranoid!! lol

Are there any spare decals on the sheet you're not using that you can do a test run with on a piece of scrap? Only thing I can think of here.

My NX-01 decal set arrived, but, I'm a bit worried....they are quite faint and I'm worried they'll not be seen against a gunmetal surface???

Thanks Mach71, hopefully I'll get some more work done and some decent photos up this weekend.

Bones looks good!

Sorry, not the best lighting guys. Not sure if I should just go ahead and paint his eyes and hair and move on or go back and add more highlighting....

Interesting, (should I say fascinating?) I've never seen Tamiya primer bubble like that but glad it was just a small boo-boo and you were able to fix it.

I finished the flesh tones on Bones this weekend and sprayed a few light mists of flesh on him to tone down the contrast. I'll look at him tonight and see how the results turned out- hopefully I've have something to photo and post here then.

I got a coat of Luftwaffe blue on Spock. Something interesting happened. His knee bubbled badly.

I had a few other very small bubbles on his back but they were very small. I washed all the parts, primed with Tamiya fine primer and Tamiya paint.

A little sanding and another coat of paint fixed it.

This is where I'm at now.

Got it Terry. And I'm looking forward to your build!

It's great to see Kilk's finished USS Brattain as the first across the line!

Mach71, can you put me down for an AMT Galileo II Shuttlecraft. Looking forward to this.  

Thanks, Terry