All Scale Trek

mophius wrote:The pattern looks like it will be great when finished. Ihad the same problem you have with your gold but mine was copper. I ended up mixing the two which did the trick.

Metallics these days SUCK!

I had a steady diet of "Lost in Space" and B movies, so saucers and rockets were all I knew. The model a friend had of the Enterprise interested me was was so different it was somehow off-putting. The Enterprise's design makes sense to me. With older rockets and saucers you get few, if an...

While I contemplate the paint on the Kongo I screwed up my courage and went back to the Burd. Make no mistake this kind of work is a high anxiety issue with me. The yellow undercoat is done. Now, once that dries we get to see if Tamiya gold is any better. So in a rather unstable clamping position. D...

That thing is beastly. And such a small stand!

Up from base coat. Now the work starts.

Side view.


Bow angle


Stern. That...gap. Well before posting this I filled it. A little touch up and it will never be seen again.


And the ventral view. No divot.

el gato wrote:This is so incomplete. I guess you're required to scratch yourself a third nacelle...

Sherk!

You must've built it air tight if you filled the hull with resin Yes sir. The stuff will find every leak, like it did with the E-D I did the same thing with. I ended up doing the nacelles on the E-D one half at a time as I would have had to make a hole to pour the stuff in. But the secondary hull l...

About as it has been. The browser, OS and script load can heavily affect load time as well.

Interesting designs to be sure, but don't inhale at the wrong time.

I ran the Kongo down to the paint booth for priming. Tomorrow base coat.