The Enterprise Incident

A 31 year old vintage kit, crude by today’s standards. So much sanding, so much filler, so many imperfections. It feels like I’m actually carving the ships myself out of soap or something. A real challenge. I hope I can make them look decent. 

Klingon D7 Battlecruiser 

Lots of bad fitting seems 

 

 

The tail of the Romulan Warbird was missing, I had to try and make one. Fortunately, it is a fairly simple shape. Made a shape with paper 

Made from a wood craft stick 

Not bad, it should clean up with some filler. 

Sorry for my ugly grotesque claw, I’m recovering from second degree burns to my hand.
Let the pressure cooker fully cool down before opening the lid! 😛
 

The saucer section gap is hard to fill in and get smooth.. 

Primed with Model Masters grey 

Looks pretty good from a distance  

 

31 year old decals 

All primed up and nearly ready to paint. (Or so I thought) 

This is the point where I pause, usually for a long time trying to figure out how to not fuck it up.. And then I see a sign post up ahead.. and crossover into the Twilight Zone..  

I had a slight airbrush malfunction and had to completely redo the Warbird.
I used Tamiya acrylic thinner for the first time, and it reacted to the Model Masters silver causing a rip in the space-time continuum which sent me hurling back to square one..
I should have tested an unfamiliar product before I went straight to the model... I was getting too cocky..