The pics are crappy (good ones to come) but I thought I'd share anyway.
The model is 99% Dave Tomita's decals- they are incredible- and every little panel line and window is represented.
This is the FC version of the ship- no goofy refit here, pallie.
Alsi posted are (crappy pics again- time for a new digicam) pics of my Defiant class ships 9with my own uber-decals) and a new Valiant class ship (USS Diomedes).
Your opinions?
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It's a shame that the Valiant class couldn't have been made a background ship or the like on Deep Space Nine; I always liked that design (and sometimes I think I like it more than the Defiant design). It's a nice model; good job with it.
As for the Enterprise, I was about to ask how you got those small details painted so perfectly. I see you used decals; those look really sharp, actually. It's good work.
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Once good pics are up, you'll be amazed with the decal's detail- every panel is there it seems.
Best of all- there are decals for the dark grey parts of the nacelles- thosse are a bitch to paint and never turn out well (for me).
As for the Valiant class not making the show- just squint at the big fleet shots and consider them "way in the back". Something cool about the valiant class- no pulse phasers. It sports a short phaser strip next to the busard collector. Durng a strafing run (like the Defiant does), the ship's phasers would lance out in two deadly beams.
That would have been cool to see.
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The only model I created myself from that batch is the Titan model (the one not anywhere near complete). The rest are available here and there- I can link you to whatever you're looking for.
I make my own decals on Adobe Illustrator (though the Enterprise's amazing decals are from Absolute Models).
If you mean "did I build/paint/decal the models myself", then yes- they are my work in that respect.
The Enterprise's decals took over five days to complete!
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Unfortunatelly I'm not from America, and don't have any opportunity to buy it. But I'm interested in those decals. On what material do U print them? To apply on models (because Iˇve got a model of Ent-D, and I paint all details by hand, it would look much better to have them printed )
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There is a company here in florida called Bell Decals (google them) that sells incredible decal paper. Buy their "starter set" and you'll be very happy.
For your Enterprise D. check out here. Be sure to get the correct set for your scale though.
Also Starshipmodeler.com (a great site) offers a free download for the 2500th Enterprise D (as that scale model has no windows molded in or any detail at all!).
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Thanks a lot. But as I said, I'm right now unable to buy anything from America (on-line or any ather way). But really thanks a lot. It's good to know this.
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There is almost certainly stuff available from Japan and Germany as well via mail-order if not online.
It'll be around when you're ready.
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Not so much- no. The deflector is only slightly off on the 2500th version and I scored and bent the pylons upwards a bit so the bussard collectors are where they should be from the front, but that's all.
No major mods from the stock kit- this Enterprise was the first model I'd built in many years and I really screwed it up from assembly to decals when I built it a few years ago. When I moved apartments, i decided to re-build seeral models- the Enterrise in particular, so I contacted Dave Tomita, bought his decals, stripped the kit and got to work.
I was suprised that the kit's registry is almost 200% larger than it should be! That's a biiig mistake on most people's 2500th E. Here is a good example of a nice build with the large registry.
Odd that the "giant" version is only as large as the registry on the Galaxy- they just gave the scrqwny Sovvie a small registry to make the ship seem larger mabye?
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That is quite the coolness. Do you have any better photos of the U.S.S. Pluto shown a few thumbnails down? I'm working on a pre-TOS design and that looks really neat.
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Odd that the "giant" version is only as large as the registry on the Galaxy- they just gave the scrqwny Sovvie a small registry to make the ship seem larger mabye?
You sure? To me, the "giant" registry looks much bigger than the Galaxy registry. It looks the same size as the refit-Connie registry, which was huge. (And I've always thought that the reason the Galaxy registry was so relatively small was, as, you say, to make the ship look larger.)
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I'm sure- it's odd, I made a custom registry for my USS Merrimac (a Nebula-like Sovvie kitbash) by curving a Galaxy registry on Illustrator, and everyone told me how huge I'd made it.
It's strange to consider, but the saucer on the Sovvie is only about as large as the area from the phaser ring inward on the galaxy (turned so the oval shapes match up, of course).
It's a much smaller ship.
Aban, I'll take some pics of the Pluto for you- the ones online lose most of the detail. The ship is this design that data was viewing schematics of in Conspiracy.
It's part of my pre-TNG "Lost Era" ships- along with the Ambassador, Apollo, Guardian and Marksman. All feature the Amby's blueish color scheme and thin phasers.
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I see an Intrepid Class bridge module mould... interesting.
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