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Just spent about three hours this morning making the 1701 (well 90% of it). I know it's pre-painted etc but I've never gone near making any sort of model before! Great fun indeed to see it coming together as you make it. Thanks to EnterNow for this thread as I would never have known about this range only for him. Super super quality photos as well. I was coming here to ask about the wiring in the motor but one of the photos cleared things up for me!
How do you know how long to cut the wiring to? You'd think they'd be pre-made wouldn't you?
Those bloody nacelles were hard going and I agree with EnterNow's comment about the connection between them and the secondary hull being flimsy (even though that was the Refit I believe).
Think I'll go looking for the Enterprise E now!
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Deleted User wrote: »Just spent about three hours this morning making the 1701 (well 90% of it). I know it's pre-painted etc but I've never gone near making any sort of model before! Great fun indeed to see it coming together as you make it. Thanks to EnterNow for this thread as I would never have known about this range only for him. Super super quality photos as well. I was coming here to ask about the wiring in the motor but one of the photos cleared things up for me!
How do you know how long to cut the wiring to? You'd think they'd be pre-made wouldn't you?
Those bloody nacelles were hard going and I agree with EnterNow's comment about the connection between them and the secondary hull being flimsy (even though that was the Refit I believe).
Think I'll go looking for the Enterprise E now!
They really are gorgeous models, & great fun to build because they come together very quickly. I actually didn't cut the wires for the nacelle lighting, so ended up with a fair amount of slack - which in turn became a bit of a nightmare fitting it all into the secondary hull, prob should have cut them!
The Enterprise-E is a cracking one, my fav is prob Voyager though it's much bigger than the rest of the line & has really good detail 0 -
Yeah I'm stuck at the moment as I don't have something like a razor blade to do the very short ones for the motor. Enterprise E has been added to my eBay saved searches list!
I got lucky with this one as I ordered it from Hong Kong and customs didn't cop on! Saved around €40. I was delighted. 0 -
Deleted User wrote: »Yeah I'm stuck at the moment as I don't have something like a razor blade to do the very short ones for the motor
Nothing to snip the wires? Bah, use your teeth man! 0 -
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Ooh, what a task. They're some size, have you ever seen one? I've one there to build that I got a few years ago...not gonna bother with it until I'm a master of the craft though
It'll be a present for my brother who is steadily building his skillset. It's something he'd like to try in a few years but may as well but it if I see it cheap.
Stunning models by the way EN!0 -
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Can any of these models you guys have be hung from the ceiling? Like are there models with little hooks so you can hang them? I'm sure I could sort it out myself but I was just wondering. It would be cool to hang one over my tv Anyone know where you can get larger sized models? Cheers! 0
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filmbuffboy wrote: »Can any of these models you guys have be hung from the ceiling? Like are there models with little hooks so you can hang them? I'm sure I could sort it out myself but I was just wondering. It would be cool to hang one over my tv Anyone know where you can get larger sized models? Cheers!
Yeah there's no hooks on any of my Bandai ones, but they're pretty light & I'm sure if you tie some white thread around the nacelles & the saucers you could hang them without hassle.
When you get to bigger models like the Polar Lights stuff, no chance. The PL Enterprise refit is so heavy it has a support bar from the stand running up to the saucer just to stop the saucer breaking off under its own weight.0 -
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filmbuffboy wrote: »Cheers man. Would you say the Polar lights models are of better quality/more realistic? I'll have a look now. Would love an Ent D & Romulan Warbird hanging head to head over my tv, it would look cool. Pity the Polar lights ones are too heavy for that.
Well the beauty of the Bandai models is they're pre-painted, & painted to a very very high standard may I add. The bigger models such as Polar Lights, Revell etc when it comes to realism, all comes down to how good your modelling/painting skills are
Actually the like of the Revell models would hang from the ceiling with some thread too I'd imagine, they're not heavy. I've a few of them to build, the Enterprise-B, Enterprise-C, Reliant and some more stored away.
The Polar Lights 1:350 kits are HUGE though0 -
Well the beauty of the Bandai models is they're pre-painted, & painted to a very very high standard may I add. The bigger models such as Polar Lights, Revell etc when it comes to realism, all comes down to how good your modelling/painting skills are
Actually the like of the Revell models would hang from the ceiling with some thread too I'd imagine, they're not heavy. I've a few of them to build, the Enterprise-B, Enterprise-C, Reliant and some more stored away.
The Polar Lights 1:350 kits are HUGE though
If only there was a set of model kits that built the ships to scale compared to each other
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Finished off mine the other night and it didn't light up at all. Massively disappointed with myself. The different sections were working when I tested them so I obviously messed up this bit:
I really can't face taking it apart again for fear of something breaking....are the lights really worth the potential trauma?0 -
Deleted User wrote: »are the lights really worth the potential trauma?
Absolutely! Now put on the gold uniform, & run a level 1 diagnostic there & sort it out. It'll be worth it 0 -
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Major bump alert (ion storm)
The buzzard collectors on the NX-01 never sat right with me on the Bandai model. Granted, I used a custom lighting circuit in it & not the factory one, but the red led's were always a little too intense, which threw off the rest of the lighting effect. Given I'm doing an Enterprise run through at the mo, I thought it a good idea to take the nacelles apart & fix the issue. In the end, I used a very complex solution that required hours & hours of painstaking...ah what the hell, I cut up some transparent red plastic from a wrapper & added layers of it inside the collector, until the effect looked right.
It's still hard to get a decent shot of the ship with the lights on, it's not quite how it looks in person but you can see here the difference between the port & starboard collectors (the port one is how it's been for years, & the starboard one has the red transparent plastic inside which diffuses the light, and dims it down to the correct level).
A few beauty shots while she's out & about:
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Optimus Prime wrote: »wow that is insane haha, i guess they dont make them anymore?
Not that I know of, I think they stopped production a good few years back unfortunately. I'd have loved if they did more of them, a Galaxy class & an Excelsior class would have been amazing.Bandai have the rights to star wars kits in Japan and revel in the europe so a lot of the Japanese websites stopped shipping the kits overseas, you can still find them on ebay though where they will ship, price has gone up slightly because of this. You need to paint the bandai star wars kits though, to get the most out of them.
Interesting, didn't know that 0
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