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Well, I got my Bandai Enterprise refit kit and thought I'd make a brief comment on it.
The detail is pretty amazing, and the "aztec" patterns more subtle than the photos I saw would indicate. They show up when the light is right, but mostly vanish at other angles, just like the film miniature. The paintjob of the bluish colors does seem a tad overdone, but it's not so bad.
The only problem I've had is a big one...I laid out all the bags with the pieces in preparation of starting construction, and I noticed that some of the plating on the nacelles seem in photos online seemed to be missing. Then I noticed something annoying...the outboard halves of the nacelles are also completely missing the NCC-1701 legend and smaller text. All the pix I've seen of these kits build have this detail, so I have to assume my kit has a manufacturing defect. I guess I have to send it back or request a replacement part. Grrrr....
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There is talk of decals being made to accurize the model.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: There is talk of decals being made to accurize the model.
You miss the point...the parts I have are missing some of the paint that's supposed to be there. So to "Accurize" it I'd have to try to match the paintjob on the rest of the kit and then hope that someone makes accurizing decals for stuff that's already supposed to be there.
I wrote to the place where I purchased it, and either they're going to have to send me a replacement kit or replacement parts.
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Ah. You're boned. Send it back for a new kit from Bandai: A modeler over at SSM got two right nacelles and no left one and had to send his back too. Wiggy. You could always but a second kit and use tthe first to make a cool FASA variant or mabye give yours some WOK style battle damage.
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