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Cheers, guys. This one wasn't as much fun as I thought it would be, but I'm okay with how it turned out.

I got my hands on an old edition of the venerable 18” Enterprise (no bloody A, B, C, or D); this is a re-release from the ‘90s put out by AMT/ERTL in 1/537 scale. Which way to go? There is always much debate regarding how accurate one wishes to make this model. The kit itself has some...

"Yellow Squadron will cover for Red on the first run. Green will cover Blue on the second" So reads part of the Death Star attack plan a.k.a., The Battle of Yavin in the novelization of Star Wars - Episode 4 - A New Hope. In the novelization, Yellow and Green were X-Wing squadrons and Red and...

Looking good so far! This old kit's fit problems are legendary. During my build, I found that adding a spacer behind the cockpit ball improved the fit of the leading edge of the wing struts. By forcing the centre of the fuselage apart, the leading edge came together a bit tighter. It also gave...

Cheers, Guys. Here's the full picture treatment:

Wow! It took a while, but I finally got around to casting copies of the landing gear and then installing the originals on this model. I can at last call this one DONE.

Gotcha, Mr. Max. I agree with you that it looks like something's missing; I finished this Viper to resemble the full-sized mock up as seen on screen and it displayed no markings. I have plans to make another Viper in the re-imagined BSG style and that one is going to sport a bit more...

Thanks, Builder. It's a great kit, you'll enjoy it. Pigments are really easy to use and I feel they're perfect in this application to give a grimy look. For this particular model I applied them with a dry brush (I used mostly black pigment). The method I use is to dip the brush into the pigment...

Well, it's 99.9% finished. I haven't installed the landing gear and landing gear doors yet, I'm going to cast copies of those to use on my old Revell/Monogram Viper kits. In the meantime, here are a few test shots of the (almost) finshed product. The weathering was finished off with burnt...

The secondary weathering stage - After painting in the engine plumbing and other details, I applied various colours of pigment powder and sealed that down with a layer of Future. I added a few drops of gloss white acrylic paint to the gloss coat to lighten up the overall look of the paint finish...

The masking is a bit fiddly, but trying to get those decals down straight is worse. After I test fitted the sub assemblies, I noticed that the two wing wing mounted cannon were aiming slightly lower than horizontal. It's particulary notciable since the cannon are directly in front of the two...

Cheers, Ozzman. I'm skipping the decals and painting on the Go Faster Stripes with a custom mix of Tamiya Red and Orange. First... a great deal of masking: Looks faster already:

Thanks, Quaralane. I'm going to go with Gear Down; before I paint them, I want to cast copies of the gear to use on my old Revell/Monogram kit so I've put them aside until I get around to doing that. Also, the pieces which comprise the gear are an incredibly sloppy fit and need a fait amount of...

Sub assemblies pre-shaded: Sub assemblies painted:

ParaGrafix's set also includes three inserts to replace the kit's engine exhaust; the value of these is questionable to me as the kit part is very highly detailed as is. It's also molded in clear plastic, so no modification is needed for lighting. However, it's worth the price of the PE set for...

I'm not going to use the kit decals for the red and grey stripes; rather, I'm going to paint the markings. I'm going to keep the grey primer for the stripe around the engine intakes, I masked this off prior to painting the main body colour.

This kit's construction is very straightforward and no modification is required apart from the cockpit. So now on to the fun part... paint! The kit is very well engineered and can be built and painted in sub-assemblies. Starting at the front; the nose intake cone is a darker grey than the rest...

It's a great kit with very few construction problems. I'm scrapping the decals and painting on the Go Faster Stripes, I also find them a little weak. The cannons on my Viper also aim slightly below the horizon. I attribute this to wing warpage and also due to the fact that the fuselage/engine...

Here's a W.I.P. look at my build of Moebius' 1/32 Colonial Viper MK1: Box art and a snazzy art card of Ralph McQuarrie's viper concept design: Stock Cockpit: I removed the molded detail from the cockpit tub and re-faced it with ParaGrafix's photoetched set: I opted not to use the pilot...