1:1400 Enterprise E

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Complicated is one word to use... lol.

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And tonight we begin attaching nacells to pylons and sealing up the front of the engineering hull. Threading the wire through for the saucer is going to be fun.....

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And finishing up the evening, a pretty vision of completion. The wiring is now threaded through the ship, the engineering hull is glued as are the nacells, all that's left is to place the nav light fibres to their respective bulbs and glue the 'neck' piece on. Then it's on to paint to get and full ship decals.

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The final bit of fibre and wire placement prior to sealing the neck

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Starting to attach to her temporary Base. But she is in one piece now (minuse the nacelle grills) all gaps now being filled prior to final coat of paint. That's a lot of wire!!!

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That's all the kit now glued together and the putty sealing is in full flow

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Been a shirt while since I have uad chance to do anything. I've now got everything on the enterprise apart from the nacell covers, I have another clear set to go on, all photoetch components on first final coat of paint done. I'll do another later, then it's on to the decals

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And after the final coat and first lot of decals....

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So why do these decals look salmon pink on the ship, compared to them looking grey on the backing sheet?

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Well I tried to change the colour of the ship. The white just didn't work so a change to grey was on the cards, however the grey coat went on far too thick, it pooled, it cracked, it's now being stripped back to the model kit then I'll respray (now I have the kit to spray).

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Can not believe the amount of work I'm having to do now because of one bad coat of paint!

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She is finally finished

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Just wish I could put a video on here. Features include. Custom shuttle bay with own light circuit and three 1:1400 shuttle craft. Fully working phaser array with sound on top of saucer, comprising of 39 3mm bulbs. Working spot light own circuit, working nussard affect (from tenacontrols) light emitting nacelles (blue led tape) with teo bulbs connected eith a clear straw powered by a circuit board from the playmates insurrection you giving this model warp sound and affect from the nacelle. Fully LIT deflector dish, working nav lights in ship and nacelles. Mounted on a hand made box with custom lighting too. It's taken just under 12.months to complete... but here she Is, the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E. Finished off with official dedication plaque.

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And a quick look at the captain's yacht area, and additional yacht large scale.

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Finally night time, the yellow on the saucer is the phaser firing. And yhe red and green nav lighys are present to. The photo etch parts look amazing. All 3000 plus windows have been drilled out some have been refilled, but are still present