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Estes Enterprise Build
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.
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You're killing me. I've ALWAYS wanted one of those. I hate this economy!
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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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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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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Gray vs White?
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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