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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] Well, I have a photograph of the anonymous person who built the models, and it turns out that it was [URL=http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/341/me.jpg]CHARLIE SHEEN!!![/URL] Seriously though, you guys are just too darn smart. I was hoping I'd fool at least one person. I should have posted this at the TrekBBS. Some guy posted about an interview with Damon Lindelof about a new Trek TV series, complete with fake Youtube video link that takes you nowhere. People were buying it left and right :rolleyes: Anyway, here's the skinny: I built the models. Although Adam Buckner's Bradford kitbash is the real deal (and hopefully the Curry as well if Dan ever finds it), I though it'd be funny if I built a fake kitbash for April Fools Day to post along with the Bradford. I actually [i]was[/i] going to build another Cheyenne, and I even found some actual marker pens like the original. However, I learned that I couldn't cut sheet styrene for crap, so I couldn't make the pylons. So I went with what was in the two 3-Enterprise kits I had, but then I accidentally screwed up. I built a ship that looks like the Tolstoy, but with several differences (since I didn't have the large Ent-D kit at the time for the bridge, impulse engines and captain's yacht). I glued the top of the Ent-A saucer to the top of the ship since I had no other bridge to glue to it, and I made photon torpedo cannons out of the halves of the TOS Enterprise secondary hulls, and some pieces from an airplane kit, to give it that "kludge" look like the other DS9 kitbashes had. I screwed up because I bought the wrong spraypaint for it. I bought Testor's Light Gloss Blue, and it made the model this bright shiny blue color, which I really didn't like. I was toying with the idea that I'd name it one of the conjectural classes, and I originally picked the "Akagi" because I decided it was going to be the Rigel class. I had ordered some name/registry decals for Galaxy and Nebula class ships, and the second thing I learned was how much of a pain in the ass it is to apply water-based decals. But I eventually applied the Akagi's registry and its name (which was horrendously difficult because I had to cut each number and letter separately, and they were ridiculously small to begin with). And to top it all off, once I was done with the model, I realized that I just didn't like it. I know it was just supposed to be a prank, but I realized that I was starting to enjoy kitbashing, and I found that I didn't want to build a model that was supposed to intentionally look like shit (to mimic the DS9 kitbashes). I decided that I wanted my ship to look like the BoBW kitbashes instead, even if it gave it away that it wasn't a real studio model (and it wasn't my intention to "really" fool you guys anyway). So I decided I was going to start over again and buy some new model kits, even though now April 1st was coming up soon. More info in my next post... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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