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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!