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Old 27-06-2013, 09:06 PM
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Progress on Star Trek model

The completed Arboretum for the Polar Lights Star Trek 1/350 NCC-1701 Enterprise Refit model! Hours of work into this. Painted walls, custom made trees, water effects, grass and gravel.

Approx dimensions: 72mm x 50mm x 10mm

Hope you like it!
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Old 28-06-2013, 05:10 AM
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Old 28-06-2013, 05:31 AM
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Great Detail. Just been looking around at some of the ST kits available.. wow my Sons would love them (me too) looks forward to seeing more progress.
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Old 28-06-2013, 06:34 AM
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Stefan, good going, but a comment if I may.

The rocks/ballast you used for the paths is out of scale - if you consider the scale of the doors etc, the path rocks used would be insurmountable boulders to anyone entering Sorry, but perhaps the rock choice should be smaller grit 0 I know railway model ballast is available in smaller sizes. I would have used beach sand personally.

Otherwise, great stuff. Will it actually be visible in the completed model?
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Old 28-06-2013, 07:46 AM
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Thanks all!

Yeah I noticed that they were out of scale I didn't have anything finer at the time. At one point it was hard to change but should be easier now that everything is completed. I can scrape the gravel off and chuck sand on then paint it.

The second photo shows how much would be visible.
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Old 28-06-2013, 10:17 AM
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Stefan, beautiful work! I assume you are going to light the kit as well? I have two of these 1/350 Ent refit Polar Lights kits sitting in my study, unbuilt. I haven't been able to find time (and room) to get back into my modelling, but someday I might. It reminds me, I better suss out the HobbyTalk/Polar Lights site for a few more kits I'm interested in, just in case they 'go out of print'. Cheers, Fox
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Old 28-06-2013, 10:40 AM
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Stefan, beautiful work! I assume you are going to light the kit as well? I have two of these 1/350 Ent refit Polar Lights kits sitting in my study, unbuilt. I haven't been able to find time (and room) to get back into my modelling, but someday I might. It reminds me, I better suss out the HobbyTalk/Polar Lights site for a few more kits I'm interested in, just in case they 'go out of print'. Cheers, Fox
Yep doing the lighting kit as well. I want to try and buy all the stuff locally because the lighting kit is so expensive.
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Stefan, please keep us informed with your progress. Agree, the lighting kits can be very expensive, although I guess one is paying for the 'plug and play' and time saving as well. Just for fun, I attach pictures of two ST kits I did a while ago. Toys R' Us were running out Bird of Prey kits for $10 each, so I couldn't resist. Also, a friend donated me his old badly built/derelict AMT Enterprise model; I completely rebuilt and re-decaled the kit. Whilst it's a 'cute' build, I now realise I made no attempt for scale, detail, nor weathering - so the end result is far too toy-like.
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Nice work Stefan

It should look awesome when it's finished.

Looking forward to more progress shots.
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Stefan, please keep us informed with your progress. Agree, the lighting kits can be very expensive, although I guess one is paying for the 'plug and play' and time saving as well. Just for fun, I attach pictures of two ST kits I did a while ago. Toys R' Us were running out Bird of Prey kits for $10 each, so I couldn't resist. Also, a friend donated me his old badly built/derelict AMT Enterprise model; I completely rebuilt and re-decaled the kit. Whilst it's a 'cute' build, I now realise I made no attempt for scale, detail, nor weathering - so the end result is far too toy-like.
Very nice! Yep I will keep posting progress shots but it may be a while until I start the next bit.
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Old 30-06-2013, 12:06 PM
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I actually removed the gravel and painted over the path with that buff colour. The sand grains I had were larger than the gravel grains so I might just leave it out!

Will post photos soon.
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Updated without the gravel and added people.
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Lookin' great Stefan! Can't wait for some fuselage and shuttle bay construction... Cheers, Fox
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