Extremedalek

A bit more done over the course of this week. Found my mid grey for the panelling details and they've all been masked and given three coats of *thinned* paint 😀 Bought the correct brushes as well (for acrylic paints) and it went on like a dream. Next up is the detailing on the saucer sections and the phaser strips. What's the thinking on using the tamiya curved masking tape for the phaser strips, or would I be as well doing it free hand? Also I'm thinking of getting a black sharpie marker fine point to do the windows but this seems a bit like cheating. Is this a standard tool within the hobby? One more question. I've made a bit of a hash of painting the frames on the clear windows. Is there an easy way to get the acrylic paint off and start again? They're still on the sprue. I've tried scratching off the paint with a bit of sharpened sprue but it's taking aaaages.

Ha thanks, and I love your word "greebly"! Done a little work this afternoon. Masking off for a bit of dark grey detailing. The instructions call for these parts to be aluminium silver but I wanted to continue to scheme from the "greebly" parts on the saucer to tie both sections of the hull together. Also finished and assembled the main deflector array. Really please with this. I think the copper on clear blue really looks the biz.

Thanks for the responses. I did the underside of the sauce phaser strip forst just in case I needed the change how I did things, as it wouldn't be in full view once completed. I'll think the paint and have another go at the other side. I've got plenty of the base colour left in a spray tin so I don't think there'd be much hassle in filling/sanding/masking and respraying so that's something that gone onto my "to do" list.

As promised I've attached a few photos of the progress so far Any comments suggestions or advice are most welcome!

Right you are - I'll upload some pics in the morning. My phone camera is pretty decent so should be no problem.

Hi All Thanks to everyone who welcomed me to the forum in the other thread, and suggested I start a WIP thread - well here it is! I think I've committed a cardinal sin already - painting before assembly. But the instructions did say to paint first... Anyway, I've had a good productive day today. I've primed all the parts with Tamiya Light Grey primer, 2 coats of. In fact I'm using this for my base colour as suggested on a Star Trek modellers facebook group, and to my eye it does seem to be a pretty good match for "Federation Grey". So that's my base colour done as well. I used a spray can and I have to say the finish looks really nice. I started painting the clear part for the nacelles last night, and finished them off today. This enabled me to assemble both nacelles and finally feel like I was making progress. Unfortunately I didn't do a very good job, and they do look a little messy. I'm hoping a fine brush and a spot of paint fir touching up may help a little. I've also decided the paint the main deflector dish and the smaller saucer section deflector copper, and this against the clear blue on the main deflector really does look nice. It also gives it a bit of lineage to the original Enterprise. I've also done the bussard scoop ribbed housing in copper as well. I've also begun on the phaser strips - beige as per the instructions. I'm not thinning down my acrylics for the smaller details parts like these just using as is and it seems to be OK so far. I've only done one of the long sweeping phaser strips so far, one underneath the saucer section, and I did it free-hand rather than masking off. I think it looks pretty good by my standards, but I wonder would masking off be recommended for this job? Tomorrow I'm cracking on with painting the grey window frames into the clear plastic window parts, then I can get them all glued into place in the saucer section. I do have some darker grey panelling to paint in, but I haven't yet found a suitable grey. I'm off the Hobbycraft on Monday to see if I can pick one up. As these are quite large areas I do plan to mask these off and thin the paint before using - any tips for any of these? I already have some 6mm Revell masking tape.

Hi Everyone! Thought I'd stop by here and introduce myself. I'm really new to the hobby. Well, I say new, I built some Star Trek ships, a movie-style Dalek and a couple of Aliens back in my teens (none to a very good standard I'm afraid - no priming, no base colour, just enamels onto bare plastic, a few crumpled decals and Bob's your uncle!) Lately though I've been thinking about starting again, but doing things right this time. I was thinking of getting a Trek kit form Amazon, but I luckily happened across an AMT Voyager kit for sale at a local comicon for £16 so I snapped it up (there was also an Enterprise E, but someone else too that while I was making my mind up). Obviously there was nothing around like this site back when I was first modelling, so I'm hoping for lots of tips, tricks and advice to get the best finish for my abilities from my models.