Superb work there Klik!

Klik,

I got you updated. Sweet build man,

Impressive, most impressive... sorry, wrong galaxy.

Steve

Klik,

Nice job.

I'll get your pic posted on page 3 as soon as I get to a computer.

Busy morning. 

Klik,

Nice job.

I'll get your pic posted on page 3 as soon as I get to a complete. 

Busy morning. 

Klik,

Nice job.

I'll get your pic posted on page 2 as soon as I get a computer. 

Busy morning. 

Awesome Klik!! Very cool and great name...Brattain! Well done

Ok, back as promised, with finalized pictures:

And a few 'glamour shots'....feel free to pick your favorite for the cover page:

And that's all I've got for now...

If you want me to, I can post pics of what I'm doing (and what I intend to do) with the Enterprise-B, it's up to you. Either way, I hope you like the Brattain. I sure do. 

Thanks for looking, Comments and Criticisms welcomed.

Klik

Wow Rob, Those are some amazing decals. Good luck.

I've made a little more progress on Spock, but nothing to show. Just trying to clean up the shirt

seams.

I dont know. They may go on real sweet. Like Gamera said, they will be a whole lot easier that painting all those little boxes.

Yup..methinks I may regret this...lol

Wow, good luck with those Rob, looks easier than painting but seems like they'll bring their own issues though.

I've decided to either simplify or complicate my 1/1000 NX Refit with this decal set from Acreation (cost way more than the original kit too!!!):

This will be my first attempt at a massive decaling job of this scale.

Thanks for the comments, guys!

Yes, Gamera, building this one in sub-assemblies made painting a little easier (but not by much), though it did make decals a snap (no bending wrists or fingers in weird angles to get the little ones in the right places or worrying about snapping off a part while decaling). For this kit, it was definitely better to do it in chunks, particularly for the decals on the nacelles and the pylons.

And, Mach71, R2 did an excellent job on this Reliant kit, with better engineering and fit than the older, bigger 1/537th (if I remember correctly) Reliant kit. Everything is snap-together (though I didn't snap it--I shaved off the snappy bits and glued), with very minor seams (so minor that I didn't bother to fill them with anything other than just a spurt of glue). Surface details are just right, and they even separated the engine parts out to make painting more manageable. I'm just sorry I didn't take any more in-progress pictures to share.

Anyhow, it is now completely finished and I should get final pics up as soon as I can (today is very busy--took a short break to sneak this update in...)

Klik

Nice work o the Reliant Klik.

How did it go together? It looks like R2 did a good job on the kit.

Gamera, I'm still working on the front seam. It's not cooperating at all.

I've been very busy at work so not much progress. I hope to make some

headway this weekend.

Hope you are feeling better.

Mach71: Sorry, saw your post a week ago and then forgot to comment. Looks good so far, did you make any more progress on the seam?

Klik: Very cool technique there. Does painting and assembling the kit in sub-sections work better for you? I generally would just assemble everything and hose the whole darn thing down with white paint and then decal.

Sorry not much progress on 'Bones'- I've been feeling like rewarmed krap lately and haven't gotten much of anything done.

Ok, it seems its been a long time, and I hadn't thought to post 'in-progress' pics, so here we go.

I assembled all the major sub-assemblies: main saucer, nacelles, and 'rollbar'. I decided to use a variation of the pre-weathering technique that I used on my 1/2500th Ambassador:

So, form that to this:

Then, with a quick coat of grey paint, and some black wash (with blue paint and the addition of the bridge and sensor array) to bring out the details turned it into this:

Then, I began to apply decals, starting with the Windows:

And the Rollbar:

The nacelles went from this:

to this:

Then, the markings on the hull were applied:

Then, the ship underwent 'final assembly', and here is how it sits right now (just needs a few touch-ups):

I'll get the touch-ups finished, and post final pictures by the end of the week.

Also, if you're interested, here is the partially-assembled Enterprise-B, for which I've got a few 'special modifications' in mind.

Thanks for looking, comments, criticisms, and critiques humbly requested.

Klik

Between work and traveling I have not been able to get much work done on Spock. I got a few minutes today to work on a troublesome seam. It is in front of his shirt. A bad design on the kit. I put a bit more putty on it. I'll see if that works.

His head is just dry fitted in this photo.

What would be really cool is to mount a small LCD display with a moving star field or rotating planet to the viewscreen!

Lots of work, but it would look cool.

Lol, the first one would be pretty funny. Personally I think I'd just go with the planet though, seems odd they don't just have a plain starfield or did I miss it?  

I like the 1st one!  

That second (collage) option would a clever view screen option.

mach71

Nice find Beans! The classic Spock kit is getting hard to find.

I love the new bridge graphics. Those and the additional parts should make for

a much better bridge than the 1970's kit.

I hear ya mach71. When Nimoy passed, my secondary reaction was to find the Spock kit (The Search For Spock or In Search Of...Spock). I came up empty handed after a lukewarm search. I knew like-minded modelers would be snagging up all the Spock models they could get their hands on. When I happened upon the Spock kit in the bookstore, I knew I had to snag it.

modelcrazy

Beans,

Which view screen decal are you going to put on? The Klingon Battle Cruiser, Balok or the planet?

I haven't decided. Maybe I should shrink this down and print this as a decal...

or this one...

or this one...

You guys will be the first to know my choice.

Gamera

Ohhhhhhhhhh very cool on both of those!!!

Just curious but is that the new boxing of the bridge? I hear they'd more chairs and additional figures (the old one only had Jim, Spock, and Sulu).

I'm not sure about the boxing but it seems like I remember it (so many years ago).

Lotsa chairs.

Figures:

Ten heads to choose from. This is what I chose:

Three sitting males - Kirk, Sulu and Chekov.

Two standing males - Spock with his hands behind his back and McCoy with arms crossed.

One sitting female - Uhura.

I wish they had one more male figure to bring Scotty in the fold. 

The extra heads are Lieutenants Latimer and Boma and Yeoman Mears; all from The Galileo Seven Episode.

I found some time to start assembling the figures...

Beans,

Which view screen decal are you going to put on? The Klingon Battle Cruiser, Balok or the planet?

Nice find Beans! The classic Spock kit is getting hard to find.

I love the new bridge graphics. Those and the additional parts should make for

a much better bridge than the 1970's kit.

I like the multiple "on screen" decal options you get.

Ohhhhhhhhhh very cool on both of those!!!

Just curious but is that the new boxing of the bridge? I hear they'd more chairs and additional figures (the old one only had Jim, Spock, and Sulu).

I got the paints I needed for my Enterprise bridge kit on Saturday. 

I cracked open the box to inspect everything. Looks like I’m good to go.

On the way home I stopped by the bookstore and looky what I got!

SCORE!

Sounds really cool Klik- looking forward to her.

I primed Bones twice this weekend. As I said I'd laid some paint on him but wasn't happy with it. I found a couple of gouges cut in his face and hands which I had to putty and sand out. No idea how they got there.