My Stiletto is primed and drying so I decided to start on another project. I have always liked the look of the Estes Enterprise, but knew it was going to take some time to build. I am not a big Star Trek fan, but I did go see the Star Trek exhibit 3 days ago in San Diego. That gave me the inspiration I needed to start on this project. I have about 5 of these kits and they are all in great shape. There is a lot of parts, but that is what makes it fun. The first step was to cut out all the plastic pieces. Estes does a wonderful job of describing how to do this. Next step is to begin gluing all the pieces together.

You're killing me. I've ALWAYS wanted one of those. I hate this economy!

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Don
NAR 53455
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Hmm, Almost done my Hawk from Semroc and I have one waiting. Maybe. I'll follow your build on this!

Mark

By the way, your work area looks way to neat!

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Geoffrey

NAR 85416 L3 as of 4/2010

"There is never enough rope to do the job but it is always long enough to hang yourself up with problems"

This build is coming along but slow. It is like building a plastic model. The parts and directions are perfect, but still I have a lot of work to do to hide the seams. All parts have been glued together and I used Squadron putty to fill the seams. I have a coat of primer on the seams and I have to sand and do some touch up. Once I have the Enterprise primed I will post pictures. My next dilemma is what color to paint the Enterprise. The directions call for a light gray, but the picture on the 25th anniversary Enterprise box appears to be white. I think there were some pictures posted here of the Enterprise on display at an Estes booth so I will look them up.

I had the same decision facing me when I built mine. The directions call for grey and the box art is white. If I remember correctly the Enterprise was white in all of the old Star Trek episodes I ever saw.

In the end I painted mine white and I'm very happy with the way it looks. I follwed the Enterprise build recently with the Klingon Battle Cruiser. That I painted grey. The two of them look great together.

Thank you very much for your reply. I agree I think I will also paint mine white, right now it has primer gray on it and I don't really like it. The original might have been gray, but on TV it always looked white.

I painted mine like the instructions--I seem to remember reading somewhere that the original TV model was light grey--would not swear to that. I think white would be better.

EDIT: you could go nuts and do one of the multi- toned paint schemes like rouguepink(?) showed on his Interceptor There were pictures around here somewhere...

EDIT2: found the pics http://forums.rocketshoppe.com/show...55&postcount=41

Be sure to measure/document the length of the the tubes to build the "stick" used to fly the rocket. I flew mine at a cub scout launch, and an over-enthusiastic cubby stepped on mine, right in the middle-- I asked around on RMR and some kind soul provided the measurements to me. Its a real crowd pleaser, especially w/ scouts!

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But it is rocket science!
Get yer Barrowmans here

I think the key here is the gray is light gray. It's a dirty white shade. I had a car that was dove gray. It looked like it needed to be cleaned all the time.....

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NAR 53455
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