Face Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 (edited) Well I've officially crushed my record for longest time spent working on a single project... my last record was roughly 9 weeks on my 1/350 NX-01 ISS Enterprise, and I honestly never thought I'd ever top it as I tend to work pretty fast... short attention span I guess. In any event, I started this build back in october, and while I did take a couple breaks during that time, I probably put in about 12-16 weeks of work on this monster. I've been doing a lot of lighting projects over this past year, essentially to get myself ready for this thing, my previous lighting projects typically using between 10-20 LEDs, this one was a whole new animal, my LED count topping out at around 55. There are between 25-30 LEDs in the saucer, 15 or so in the engineering section, and 4 each in the nacelles. I lit a few of them using a circuit card manufactured by a company called Madman Lighting, purchased through the Starship Modeler store, this card has 2 different flashing circuits allowing a handful of lights to flash or strobe at different rates, the rest of the LEDs were powered using resistors. The whole ship is powered by a 12V power adaptor, but I adapted a 12V battery pack to power it for mobile purposes, but it runs through the batteries like crazy... I painted the ship using vinyl masking templates made by the Aztec Dummy company, again purchased from the Starship Modeler store, and I can't recommend them highly enough, they're absolutely indispensible if you ask me. The colours were mostly custom mixed using Tamiya acrylics, but the overall hull colour is XF-2 flat white. During the build of this model, I took extensive photos which can be found here for the build up and here for the finished model. I also took a few progress videos and posted them on youtube, they can be viewed here, there are also build up videos for some of my other recent models. PS: A word of warning though to anyone planning to build this model anytime soon, please, I beg of you, reinforce the display stand's forward support struts... I didn't, and the bloody things broke on me... fortunately, they were fixable without too much trouble, but it was a real pain in the behind... or just wait for the upcoming reissue, which apparently has an entirely new stand Edited March 5, 2009 by Face Quote Link to post Share on other sites
richter111 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 looks good, and yes it is a monster! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Face Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 almost forgot... for those who doubt how big this thing is PS I'm 6'7" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alvis 3.1 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Must...refrain...from.....smartassed response......SPOCK! Alvis 3.1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Beautiful build ! Congrats ... Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Cartwright Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Great build - very impressive! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alvis 3.1 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 And it looks even more impressive in person, as well as a LOT bigger! Several "old timers" in the club had their jaws bouncing off the floor when they saw it! Great job Sam! Alvis 3.1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Youngtiger1 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Dang, that huge! Get your mind out of gutter I was referring to the ship....lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
toadwbg Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 almost forgot... for those who doubt how big this thing is PS I'm 6'7" Sweet build. Who's that Klingon holding it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
imatt88 Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Holy Crap, that ship is HUGE! How much does it cost? Ian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Face Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 Holy Crap, that ship is HUGE! How much does it cost? CultTVMan has a preorder up for the reissue at $63.95USD, but I bought a lot of aftermarket stuff for mine... I figure I had to have spent $300 on mine Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jeff briner Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Good looking model. Live long and prosper! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
frankv74 Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 Sweet build. Who's that Klingon holding it? Sweet looking model I have that model also and the NX-01 in 350scale. Great job and thank the Cardasian for holding it for you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RiderFan Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 Sweet looking model I have that model also and the NX-01 in 350scale. Great job and thank the Cardasian for holding it for you. I missed the 1:350 NX Class. Now they're priced way more than they're worth and I won't pay what people are asking for them. Maybe Round 2 will release them some time later... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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