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Star Trek Models

  • 11-12-2011 7:03pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Just thought if any of you have any models, it'd be cool to have a place throw up few pics for any model geeks :)

    (Bandai Enterprise 1701)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Bought complete or self build?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Bandai Enterprise-E

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Bought complete or self build?

    They're bought as kits, assembly only needed & some basic wiring knowledge. The detail on them is stunning. I have a boxed 1:850 Refit amongst others such as the Reliant to get around to some day...but they're the full kits & wanna build up my skill-set first :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    they're stunning models, such detail on them.

    Where exactly did you buy the kits, in shop or online. i'd be interested in building them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    johndoe99 wrote: »
    they're stunning models, such detail on them.

    Where exactly did you buy the kits, in shop or online. i'd be interested in building them.

    I got them on ebay years ago, There's 5 ships in the Bandai range...they're all painted & lit as above

    Enterprise 1701
    Enterprise 1701-A
    Enterprise 1701-E
    Enterprise NX-01
    Voyager

    They're kinda expensive now if you search you'll see what I mean..they weren't as dear when I was collecting them. But as you say the detail on them is epic :cool:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Bandai USS Voyager

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Bandai NX-01

    I did something a bit different with this one. I didn't use the existing lighting kit, & instead use led's & used my own lighting circuit. The difference is much better in person, but its damned hard to get decent shots of these models when the lights are on...must be my camera.

    Anyway, I designed everything around a 5v psu & used resistors accordingly. I light boxed where needed, & the end result is very good. The buzzard collector are a bit intense so I might need to up the resistance going to them.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    Enterprise NX-01 is the coolest looking one. That was my favourite series, loved that starship. The lighting effects on it are truly amazing, really sets it off.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    i had a klingon warbird, next gen enterprise and a ds9
    ds9 took ****ing hours to build, i left it down on my bed after I'd finished and went onto my computer. was looking through the phonebook to find a number for something afterwards and without thinking just threw the book over my shoulder when i'd found the number.

    I hear a big crash. I look behind me and I had accomplished what the domion could not.
    never bothered with models again after that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    ì built airfix WW2 model planes in the early 80's when i was a teenager, going to have a look and see if i can get some star trek models, and custom add some extra LEDs like EnterNow. You've really made them much better.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    johndoe99 wrote: »
    ì built airfix WW2 model planes in the early 80's when i was a teenager, going to have a look and see if i can get some star trek models, and custom add some extra LEDs like EnterNow. You've really made them much better.


    Cheers all,

    The leds are only on the NX-01...I was considering 'refitting' the others with led circuits & suppose I'll get around to it at some stage :rolleyes: I've some retouching to do first though with the above models where seams don't line up & light leakage etc.

    Some of the lads on starshipmodeller have some unreal models, the refit Connie is exceptional


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,199 ✭✭✭G-Money


    Cool models. Been thinking of buying a few Star Trek model's myself but I don't know if I'd have the patience or skill required in order to buy something that required assembly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    the refit enterprise could do with a nice low blue deflector. Other than that they are all brill.

    Are they (excluding NX-01) all using fibre optics or LED?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    the refit enterprise could do with a nice low blue deflector. Other than that they are all brill.

    Are they (excluding NX-01) all using fibre optics or LED?

    The 1701-A Bandai Enterprise has the blue deflector, the one above is meant to be pre-TWOK so thats why it has the pale yellow glow. I have the 1701-A boxed & ready to be built...somewhere in the attic, must dig it out!

    1701:

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    Regards the lighting, they come with fibre optic lighting kits. Some parts are directly lit with bulbs, & others have optical guides that direct the light to certain areas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 878 ✭✭✭Kurn


    Thanks for sharing - they look amazing!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    Really nice looking models, only ever built WW2 ships, planes and the odd car but those were all years ago and none were photogenic.

    I did find this model of Enterprise that you might like.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    in case anyone is interested i emailed my local model shop: The Model Centre
    Waterford.

    And said he has no Star Trek Models in Stock, but he has the facility to order them in, and it only takes a week, holidays permitting.

    So im gonna put an order in soon as i decide what i want.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    johndoe99 wrote: »
    in case anyone is interested i emailed my local model shop: The Model Centre
    Waterford.

    And said he has no Star Trek Models in Stock, but he has the facility to order them in, and it only takes a week, holidays permitting.

    So im gonna put an order in soon as i decide what i want.

    I'd be interested in maybe more of the Bandai sets. I'd like to give the rest of them the led treatment but kind of unsure now given their value & apparent rarity of the Votager one etc.

    The other ERTL models etc like the Reliant look sweet, can't wait to get stuck back into making them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15 e46318ise


    those bandai kits look great, i need a 1701-Refit model in my life...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    e46318ise wrote: »
    those bandai kits look great, i need a 1701-Refit model in my life...

    The nicest ship of any Trek, ever. Everyone needs one in their life :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    I think I'll get stuck into this while watching TMP, that Refit intro scene is just epic in 1080p :cool:

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    It'd be a crime to name her anything other than 'ole 1701-A I think.

    I might take a few snaps of the build process & throw them up for posterity


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Nice...

    For the record TMP isn't a bad film, visually its a work of art, I think the same VFX crew worked on 2001. I can't imagine what trekkers must have felt when seeing the enterprise in all its cinematic glory compared to the original series models in TOS.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Eh I am not jealous.


    Ok I am, amazing work.

    Happy Christmas everyone :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    Becareful, annoying people with food will surround you if you build this on Christmas Day :p

    Have fun and a Merry Christmas, don't forget the after shots.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    where are they getting those numbers from, surely if Constitution, the class leader, is 1700 all the numbers below her are wrong?

    When was there a Defiant-A too?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    where are they getting those numbers from, surely if Constitution, the class leader, is 1700 all the numbers below her are wrong?

    When was there a Defiant-A too?

    There's plenty of numbers lower than 1700 that are Constitution class. The numbers appear correct, although I'm not sure about the -A in some of them. They're only decals though, you can cut the -A off if it's not correct


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    I'll just post snaps of some of the build as it progressed

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    Bollocks, forgot these, had to crack open the nacelles again

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    The only issue with this kit, the join of the nacelles to the secondary hull isn't a great fit. Still though, for no glue it does the job well. I might revisit these at a later stage & dremmel them to fit perfectly

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Take her out

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Warp Speed

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    I'll put a final one up once the decals are done, I'll wait till the madness dies down here though before doing them as they have to be properly alligned etc. Sorry for the blurry images too, camera is rubbish


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    Seems like you've taken some damage or the engineers are slacking again, one of the nacelle isn't lit up ;)

    Looks really good, well done.

    (I have the same Creative speakers)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Seems like you've taken some damage or the engineers are slacking again, one of the nacelle isn't lit up ;)

    Looks really good, well done.

    (I have the same Creative speakers)

    They only light on the inner sections, havn't you watched the films? :p

    Those creative speakers are pretty good!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    EnterNow wrote: »
    They only light on the inner sections, havn't you watched the films? :p

    Those creative speakers are pretty good!

    Learn something new everyday and it's a good reason to start up the blu-ray player :D
    Main reason I thought one was out was I thought all the angles were from the same side, missed an image or two.

    The speakers are very good, the 2.1 setup was on sale sometime ago and couldn't resist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Learn something new everyday and it's a good reason to start up the blu-ray player :D
    Main reason I thought one was out was I thought all the angles were from the same side, missed an image or two.

    The speakers are very good, the 2.1 setup was on sale sometime ago and couldn't resist.

    Yeah I've a lot of the Starboard Nacelle lighting, not so many of the port. I never noticed, just grabbed a load of pics. Very nice little kits they are, really wished they made more of them. An Excelsior would be the dream.

    Yep I've the 2.1's aswell just for the htpc, they do the job nicely :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    The images are there, just I missed them when looking through, 1, 5 and 6 of the last post show it lit up nicely.


  • Registered Users Posts: 739 ✭✭✭flynnlives


    look what the postman delivered today!!

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    its the polar lights 1/350 enterprise 1701-A
    gonna add the LED lights myself.

    and that little black circle over the bridge is a 2 euro coin!!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Very nice, I have it myself to make at some stage. I'm a long way off doing it though, it's an absolute beast of a kit & I'll need to develop my airbrush skills to do it justice.

    Where did you get it from? Some of the guys on starship modeller have made some seriously cool builds of it.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    This is scratch-built :eek::eek:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Tordelback


    Great thread, makes me very jealous! Never realised the NX-01 has port-and-starboard lights, lovely detail.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Tordelback wrote: »
    Great thread, makes me very jealous! Never realised the NX-01 has port-and-starboard lights, lovely detail.

    As in the red & green on the saucer? Yep, the kit normally gives you transparent coloured caps for those, & they use the white light from the interior for the effect. I changed them to actual led's though to make them more pronounced like the screen version.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    flynnlives wrote: »
    look what the postman delivered today!!

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    its the polar lights 1/350 enterprise 1701-A
    gonna add the LED lights myself.

    and that little black circle over the bridge is a 2 euro coin!!

    ITS HUGE!!

    Have you started this or made any progress with it?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 lda421


    Nice job, I loved models as a child, have a kilngon bird of prey (not in great nick unfortunately). Well done!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Warp Speed

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    I'll put a final one up once the decals are done, I'll wait till the madness dies down here though before doing them as they have to be properly alligned etc. Sorry for the blurry images too, camera is rubbish

    Loving that you have DVD's of the outer limits in the background :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Loving that you have DVD's of the outer limits in the background :D

    Why thank you good sir, a must for any sci-fi lover tbh :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Xithus


    It took a grueling 40secs to build my Galaxy Class.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Xithus wrote: »
    It took a grueling 40secs to build my Galaxy Class.

    Nice little model, any details on it? Matchbox?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Just a heads up, there's a Bandai NX-01 on adverts for €60, brand new in box seemingly. Well worth it, these sell for much more online

    http://www.adverts.ie/memorabilia/ban-dai-star-trek-enterprise-model/1360440


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    A final shot before the five of them go into mothballs storage

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    EnterNow wrote: »
    A final shot before the five of them go into mothballs storage

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    The constitution class is a beautiful looking model.


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