Igard
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This is one of my favourite ships from The Next Gen series. I figured after building a few ships for practice (Ferengi Marauder, Maquis Fighter), it's time for something that I'd really like to do!
I got this on ebay, in it's box, already opened, some parts had come apart from the sprues. No damage, nothing missing. I think it was a steal for £18. I'll not be using the original decals.
Here are all the parts, cleaned and removed from the sprue.
Quite alot of windows to drill. The plastic is very thin, so not that hard to work with it.
I've gone for a 'squared' shape for some of the windows. This ship appears to have various shapes and sizes of window.
Re-did some of the windows that were earlier circular into more oblong shapes. I've used some screenshots for reference as well as what little I could find of the studio model.
It's noteworthy that on the studio model, the windows all appear to be circular. It seems as though they changed the lighting effect in post production. Since I'm going for 'screen accuracy' and not a studio model replica, this is the way to go.
Quite alot of windows, not all pictured. Just spending a small amount of time every day or so, took me around 2 weeks. A couple of them aren't perfect, but mostly they line up quite nicely.
Thanks for reading and I'll continue to post updates as I work.
I got this on ebay, in it's box, already opened, some parts had come apart from the sprues. No damage, nothing missing. I think it was a steal for £18. I'll not be using the original decals.
Here are all the parts, cleaned and removed from the sprue.
Quite alot of windows to drill. The plastic is very thin, so not that hard to work with it.
I've gone for a 'squared' shape for some of the windows. This ship appears to have various shapes and sizes of window.
Re-did some of the windows that were earlier circular into more oblong shapes. I've used some screenshots for reference as well as what little I could find of the studio model.
It's noteworthy that on the studio model, the windows all appear to be circular. It seems as though they changed the lighting effect in post production. Since I'm going for 'screen accuracy' and not a studio model replica, this is the way to go.
Quite alot of windows, not all pictured. Just spending a small amount of time every day or so, took me around 2 weeks. A couple of them aren't perfect, but mostly they line up quite nicely.
Thanks for reading and I'll continue to post updates as I work.