It’s finally finished. I put the final coat of matte finish on ye olde Enterprife yesterday and brought the sad specimen to my office to proudly(?) display on my desk.
Here she is, warts and all. Click pics to embiggen.
Doesn’t look too bad from a distance, does it?
The major flaw that will stand out immediately to anyone familiar with the Enterprise is that the warp nacelles are turned outward slightly. Thanks to the layers of paint I put on the pieces before assembly the pylons fit too snugly and I couldn’t get the nacelles to snap all the way down. I tried so hard with one that I ended up breaking the tip of the pylon, so I gave up and left them both misaligned. Oh well.
I was rather proud of my paint work on the deflector dish.
The closer you get, the uglier it gets. The front ends of the nacelles are bundles of painting/filling/sanding mistakes.
I’m also somewhat pleased by the weathering work I did on the saucer. I may have overdone it slightly though. I got carried away.
To get that effect I took a piece of hardwood charcoal (I didn’t have any pastels.), sanded a bit of it down into powder, then dipped a brush in it and lightly went over the saucer and other raised parts from front to back.
All in all it could have ended up much worse thanks to all of my n00b blunders. Aside from the nacelle alignment problem it looks pretty decent sitting on my desk. Hopefully the next one will be better.
the Evil Twin said everyone he had heard comment on that model complained about the alignment issue you encountered. I think you did a great job!
Thanks! It was certainly a good learning experience if nothing else.
Just tell them it’s phaser scarring.
Good work.
I can’t even get my McFarlane sports figures to hold their baseball bats without 30 minutes of swearing.
I used to have the same problem with my Star Wars figures when I was a kid. That’s why all of my figures still have traces of glue on their hands.
worst. tardis. ev-ar.
…wait, what?
I wouldn’t worry about it…my warp nacelles have been turned outward slightly for years! Well, that’s what my doctor tells me.
Mmmmm glue …..
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Awesome. I’m PHigginbotham.
I know it is just a model, but do you suppose the Enterprise would be hampered any by that stand? Would Kirk have to go up one warp to make up for that excess baggage? Would it cause any problem with the steering? Come to think of it, I don’t think I ever heard Kirk ever say 270 right, or 60 left. Probably so computerized that all he needs to do is tell the computer to take us to Aldeberan or some other ungodly place, huh?
Looks pretty good to me.