Fellow Modelers,
Below are photos of Round2's 1/350 scale (32" length) U.S.S. Enterprise Starship-1st Pilot configuration from the 1960's TV show Star Trek built in 2015. About one-half of the building time was spent on cleaning parts and sub-assembly work, and one-half on painting and decaling. The total number of parts I used was about 91, which is not many for such a large model. I believe Round2 did an excellent job on this kit. Their product is not perfect but it is very good, and more importantly it is EXTREMELY accurate! Certainly, they invested the required time, effort and expense to get it right, and fulfilled a wish voiced by Star Trek modelers for decades in bringing it to market. In my opinion this kit holds up really well even under close inspection. The least fun part of the project was removing the recessed panel/grid lines from the saucer section. The most exciting part was adding the decals, since they transformed the model from something plain into the fantasy starship I grew up with. Nothing on this project was scratch built or required any special tools, I just had to stay committed to very tedious re-sanding/re-painting/re-decaling until the parts were as good as I could make them. The last few photos are of the actual 11ft. prop that does confirm the semi-gloss blue neck (dorsal) seen only in the 1st Pilot episode. I hope you enjoy the photos.
Phillip1
Below are photos of Round2's 1/350 scale (32" length) U.S.S. Enterprise Starship-1st Pilot configuration from the 1960's TV show Star Trek built in 2015. About one-half of the building time was spent on cleaning parts and sub-assembly work, and one-half on painting and decaling. The total number of parts I used was about 91, which is not many for such a large model. I believe Round2 did an excellent job on this kit. Their product is not perfect but it is very good, and more importantly it is EXTREMELY accurate! Certainly, they invested the required time, effort and expense to get it right, and fulfilled a wish voiced by Star Trek modelers for decades in bringing it to market. In my opinion this kit holds up really well even under close inspection. The least fun part of the project was removing the recessed panel/grid lines from the saucer section. The most exciting part was adding the decals, since they transformed the model from something plain into the fantasy starship I grew up with. Nothing on this project was scratch built or required any special tools, I just had to stay committed to very tedious re-sanding/re-painting/re-decaling until the parts were as good as I could make them. The last few photos are of the actual 11ft. prop that does confirm the semi-gloss blue neck (dorsal) seen only in the 1st Pilot episode. I hope you enjoy the photos.
Phillip1
