PracticalPolar Lights 1/1000 Star Trek USS Enterprise NCC-1701

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• tetsujin0 Posts: 0Member

  January 2011 #2

  Ah, the 1:1000 Refit! I just got that kit for Christmas, seems like a great little kit. Are you planning to use the Aztec decals?
  
  I'm not really the one to help you with accurate paint colors for it, I'm afraid... Just wanted to say, good luck with it!
• Jenny2 Posts: 0Member

  January 2011 #3

  My suggestion would be to look at Starship Modeler, as it's full of people who do, well, Starship models all the time.
• Dr-Timelord0 Posts: 0Member

  January 2011 #4

  tetsujin wrote: »

  Ah, the 1:1000 Refit! I just got that kit for Christmas, seems like a great little kit. Are you planning to use the Aztec decals?
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  Yeah I think that would be best, think its too small to paint on the Aztec, and i'd probably screw it up. I did find a guide of some sort, where somebody who had built it, and used a Flat White spray, then another shade of white.
  
  But I plan to buy all the paints etc in the next few days, and then I'll get started
• Dr-Timelord0 Posts: 0Member

  January 2011 #5

  ** Update **
  
  So finally i got started on the model, I decided in the end I was not going to give the hull a spray paint, as after buying the rest of the pain points etc it would of just cost me too much money,
  
  Btw I recommend to anyone doing a model kit paint to go with Tamiya paint pots, the colours are better and it washes off your paint brush with ease
  
  
  
  So first thing I did was build sub sections and then try to paint them best I could, as you can tell from the pics, my painting is pretty crap lol
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dr-Timelord0 Posts: 0Member

  January 2011 #6

  Next up was the decals.
  
  
  I Cannot stress how fiddly, annoying and tiny these things are, but i am working my way slowly, I know that if I rush em, they will look worse than they already are
  
  So the outside of the nacelles
  
  
  
  I was using an old casino card to cut straight lines lmao
  
  And the start of the top of the bridge section
  
  
• MadKoiFish9841 Posts: 5,334Member

  January 2011 #7

  

  ugh why do they keep making the small kits snapfit? My TOS was a putty nightmare because if it. T_T Still gotta get my butt out to get a few of these before ppl rack up the price.

  Each day we draw closer to the end.
• Dr-Timelord0 Posts: 0Member

  January 2011 #8

  The last few times i've popped into model zone, they keep raising the price on the larger TMP refit kit, It was Aï¿¡70, now its up to Aï¿¡104
• Dr-Timelord0 Posts: 0Member

  January 2011 #9

  So got bk today and did some more, I have finished up the bridge module, and have began the slow and probably most important part... the aztec patterns
  
  So far I think i am doing okay
  
  
  
  
• oldmangreg198 Woodland Hills, CAPosts: 1,339Member

  February 2011 #10

  

  Here's some advice.
  Use a thick or heavy tape around the area you want to paint. Makes it easier to keep the paint contained within the area.

  Your right to an opinion does not make your opinion valid.
• Dr-Timelord0 Posts: 0Member

  February 2011 #11

  Am pretty much done with all the painting now.
  
  So far, I have the top section of the saucer section almost complete, and the neck line of the secondary hull, I shall put pics up soon
• Chris2005678 Posts: 3,097Member

  February 2011 #12

  

  I wouldn't have the patience for this, I'd find me a pre-built model, lol.

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