Deadman Disciple
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Moving on with my next build, this time the Revell 1/500 USS Enterprise from Star Trek: Into Darkness.
I bought this model from the toy fair at Birmingham NEC in June 2015, it was an absolute bargain at £10.
The only thing wrong with it was that the box was very badly dented, but all the sprues were still bagged & luckily no parts are missing.
The reason ive left it until now to start, is the fact I had to buy a set of aztec decals to do the kit justice & selling some old XBox 360 games with a couple of XBox One games I dont play anymore to CEX, I got £47.50, so that paid for the aztec set which cost £42.00 from ebay.
Starting with the saucer section, I glued all the window clear inserts & glued the bridge & lower saucer centre pieces together & glued those into the centre of the both halves of the saucer.
Then on the domes I painted some Tamiya X-23 Clear Blue, which took a couple of coats to get it right & also the same on the bridge windows & left those to dry.
I then glued the 2 halves of the saucer together, lining up the pins to their respective holes was quite difficult, but they went in eventually & then pushed the edges around the saucer until they clicked into place.
Putting the completed saucer aside, I then started on the secondary hull.
Same as before, first glueing the clear window inserts & taping them down while the glue dries, once the glue dried I carefully removed the tape while holding down the inserts & started on the inside supports.
Glueing the supports into place, making sure they sat 100% into the grooves and the sidewalls of the one half & glueing the shuttlebay door into place, again on the one half.
As a precaution I decided to remove the 2 mounting notches on the top of the secondary hull, as ive read that if you attempt to test fit the secondary hull to the saucer section they will lock & prevent you from re-taking it apart.
Then the spine section, with a small square insert & 2 small clear windows & painted those in the clear blue.
Then came the hard part of the secondary hull.
Glueing the spine into the one half to go with the previous inside parts & manoeuvering that, the shuttlebay door & the various locator pins into place whilst trying to stop the spine & inner from popping out, but I got there in the end.
Once they all finally locked & glued into place, got my trusty electrical tape & taped the 2 halves together whilst the glue dried.
One dry, I again carefully removed the tape & sanded all the seams down & glued the pylon/nacelle strut cover plate into place.
Not having any locator pins to deal with, I aligned the cover the best I could & clamped it into place & again waited for the glue to dry.
Removing the clamps & sanded down the seams on the rear of the pylons/nacelle struts, on the front face of the struts there was a raised panel line/seam which I was tempted to sand, but I wasnt sure if it was a raised panel line that should remain.
To finish off the secondary hull, I glued in the deflector assembly minus the defector dish.
So far its looking great.
Cheers,
Wayne.
Moving on with my next build, this time the Revell 1/500 USS Enterprise from Star Trek: Into Darkness.
I bought this model from the toy fair at Birmingham NEC in June 2015, it was an absolute bargain at £10.
The only thing wrong with it was that the box was very badly dented, but all the sprues were still bagged & luckily no parts are missing.
The reason ive left it until now to start, is the fact I had to buy a set of aztec decals to do the kit justice & selling some old XBox 360 games with a couple of XBox One games I dont play anymore to CEX, I got £47.50, so that paid for the aztec set which cost £42.00 from ebay.
Starting with the saucer section, I glued all the window clear inserts & glued the bridge & lower saucer centre pieces together & glued those into the centre of the both halves of the saucer.
Then on the domes I painted some Tamiya X-23 Clear Blue, which took a couple of coats to get it right & also the same on the bridge windows & left those to dry.
I then glued the 2 halves of the saucer together, lining up the pins to their respective holes was quite difficult, but they went in eventually & then pushed the edges around the saucer until they clicked into place.
Putting the completed saucer aside, I then started on the secondary hull.
Same as before, first glueing the clear window inserts & taping them down while the glue dries, once the glue dried I carefully removed the tape while holding down the inserts & started on the inside supports.
Glueing the supports into place, making sure they sat 100% into the grooves and the sidewalls of the one half & glueing the shuttlebay door into place, again on the one half.
As a precaution I decided to remove the 2 mounting notches on the top of the secondary hull, as ive read that if you attempt to test fit the secondary hull to the saucer section they will lock & prevent you from re-taking it apart.
Then the spine section, with a small square insert & 2 small clear windows & painted those in the clear blue.
Then came the hard part of the secondary hull.
Glueing the spine into the one half to go with the previous inside parts & manoeuvering that, the shuttlebay door & the various locator pins into place whilst trying to stop the spine & inner from popping out, but I got there in the end.
Once they all finally locked & glued into place, got my trusty electrical tape & taped the 2 halves together whilst the glue dried.
One dry, I again carefully removed the tape & sanded all the seams down & glued the pylon/nacelle strut cover plate into place.
Not having any locator pins to deal with, I aligned the cover the best I could & clamped it into place & again waited for the glue to dry.
Removing the clamps & sanded down the seams on the rear of the pylons/nacelle struts, on the front face of the struts there was a raised panel line/seam which I was tempted to sand, but I wasnt sure if it was a raised panel line that should remain.
To finish off the secondary hull, I glued in the deflector assembly minus the defector dish.
So far its looking great.
Cheers,
Wayne.