GreenStrawberry Intrepid Class Sensor Array (15321-1/1000 & 15221-1/670 for Polar Lights & Revell) 1:670 & 1:1000

[Mike]

Intrepid Class Sensor Array (15321-1/1000 & 15221-1/670 for Polar Lights & Revell)

1:1000 & 1:670 GreenStrawberry

 

 

Star Trek Voyager was one of the early spin-offs from The Next Generation, and was rather successful, extending to seven series that spanned two millennia (1995-2001 in case you wondered).  After departure from Deep Space 9 on their first mission, then being whipped far away from their home sector to the Delta Quadrant by the ‘Caretaker’ that following its death would see them travelling for a lifetime to reach home, they set off on the way back, meeting many friends and foes along the way, getting the occasional leap-frog to get them closer, and problems to set them back along the way.

 

The Intrepid class was fortuitously designed for long missions, and was compact in size at roughly half the length of the then-current Enterprise with a relatively small crew of just over 140 souls under normal circumstances.  It was technologically advanced, having variable geometry warp nacelles, an emergency medical hologram system, and many other fancy things to fit the storyline.

 

The Kits

The larger Revell kit is 1:670 or 1:677 if you believe Scalemates, and it has been around a long time now, since the mid 90s when the show first aired.  It is a product of its time, so will welcome any upgrades that can be thrown at it, and you can see some of the other GS sets here, which covers pretty much the rest of the spaceframe.

 

The Polar Lights kit is smaller at 1:1000 and was released in 2021 as part of a range of new range of Star Trek ships that also included the then-new Discovery with its weird mushroom powered propulsion system, that seems silly when you say it out loud.  The main difference between the two sets relates to their size.  There are the same number of parts in each set, and they both arrive in the same compact-sized black box with their usual green and red themed printing.  Inside each box is a Ziploc bag of five grey resin casting blocks that contain twelve parts each set, plus a folded instruction sheet that acts as a damper to protect the contents during shipping and handling.

 

The instructions are functionally identical, although they are laid out slightly differently between the two scales.  The narrow, curved sensor arrays are set into the edges of the saucer section, and these require the possible deepening of removal of the blank backing plates behind the kit inserts and replacing them with the corresponding resin parts, along with two more on each side of the main hull, an inverted coffin-shaped array on the sloped front of the saucer, and a final trapezoid array at the back of the saucer where it blends into the hull.  Each part is correctly shaped and contoured to fit the model, and improves on the kit details to make it a worthwhile exercise.

 

 

15221-1/670 for Revell

 

 

 

 

15321-1/1000 for Polar Lights

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

If you have either or both of the two kits and want to bump up the detail, these sets are just the ticket.  The detail is to the usual high standard we’ve come to expect from GreenStrawberry, and that’s why they’re my favourite Sci-Fi upgrade company.

 

Highly recommended.

 

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