Els Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 I was wandering around my local Michael's about a month ago and decided to check and see if they still had the same 11 kits on the shelf that they have been selling for the past 5 five years when to my surprise I found that they had the 1:1000 Star Trek NX-01 kit. I have been wanting one of these for a while so a discount code later and it was on its way home with me. It is a nice little kit and has several options to build. I decided to go a little different with the paint. Instead of aztecing it I just mottled different metallic shades over it. I found a cool picture of a planet on the web and tried to recreate it on the dome base. I should have stopped with just the planet because when I tried to paint clouds it messed it up a bit. 02 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr 04 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr 06 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr 07 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr Since I had a lot of parts and decals left over and I was bored from staying at home I decided to use the stuff on an old 1:1000 Klingon D7 kit that I have been using to test paints on for about 10 years. So I used the additional secondary hull that was supposed to be for the NX refit and the Mirror Universe decals. This is how it turned out... 03 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr 04 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr 06 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr 07 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr 08 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr 09 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Madhatter Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) I love the metallic color of the NX. Looks way better than standard aztecing you normally see. The planet is pretty cool too. The clouds look good. Everyone is their own worst critic The D7 additions suit it really well. Its great to see your work again Hal! Edited April 15, 2020 by The Madhatter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ikar Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Thart D-7 caught me off guard. Nice work. Where did you get the conversion kit for the NX? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phantom Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Very nice, both of them! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Els Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 Thanks guys. Ikar, everything on the NX came in the box. It is a pretty good kit, it gives you the parts to build the NX-01 and the NX refit. It also gives you decals for the NX-01, refit, the mirror universe NX and another (NX-02 or 09???) If you use the discount code at Michaels it was only about $14 for the kit. I will probably pick up a couple more after this virus mess settles down so that I can build the refit and the Mirror Universe versions. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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