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Martin Koza's Enterprse B-C-E Set |
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This was our fist attempt in building Star Trek-models. It was also the first kit we (my friend Victor n' me) built together and
for me the first occasion to try out what I could do with some paint and a model kit (I did most of the airbrush work and the unnecessary but cool-looking details while he looked up the pictures we
painted after in the internet and did a fine job correcting the mistakes I did while painting. He also glued all the stuff together. The kit was also his.
There isn't exactly a lot of shops in
Austria (we live in Vienna) where modellers can buy the stuff they need. So we had to fight problems like colours that were available simply nowhere and tools we wouldn't even know of if it weren't for
culttvman's (thank you). Try to find someone to buy Aztec masks from. Ha-Ha! Anyway, we did a lot of improvisation and I think it came out well.
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The Enterprise C.
First of all: Ignore the painting Instructions and stick to whatever you find on the internet and any
kind of pictures you find. We followed the instructions in using the colours they suggested, and the C turned out too blue, in my opinion. Anyway, I gave it a base DEB (Duck's egg blue), then sprayed the
secondary colour (something we called "Graublau", which would be "greyish blue" in English) and finally, when we discovered that the C has 3 surface colours, the tertiary colour DDEB
(Dark Duck's egg blue). We agreed that it looked terrible but after some corrections (actually quite a lot, for it was my first attempt in masking a model) we could apply the details, namely the blue
thingies on the warp nacelles, the red ram scoops, escape pod panels in something tannish. By then the model started looking fine. Final step were the windows I applied with black and white fine liners.
When I was finished with those and the decals the model looked really good and we were happy.
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The Enterprise B
That was a quite easy one. Base white, blue hull marks and some details in grey, dark blue, yellow,
metallic grey, and... well, the details were quite a lot of work, but still less than with the other two. By the way: What is this large hole on the underside of the Excelsior class's primary hull? DOES
it have a function?
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The Enterprise E
Okay. This ship gave us some trouble. We started with a base white which was no trouble at all, and I
painted the light blue on the nacelles and the red scoops... still no trouble there. Then there was the darned dark grey secondary colour that is so distinctive for the class. We mixed it, and it was a
lot too thick. So I wanted to thin it down, but instead of the thinner I poured the cleaning stuff into it, resulting in the colour not adhering to the model (or the base colour, to be precise.) So after
painting it over and over again (it got about a millimetre thick on some spots but on others it still wouldn't stick.) Finally we had the wonderful idea to mix it again and at last we got the areas with
this colour right. Yet the ship looked empty. We added a third colour, which was too dark in the beginning but looked fine once we changed it too a lighter tone. After more corrections and my adding the
windows and the decals the ship looked fantastic.
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The display stand
Vic had the cool idea to let the colours on the base of the stand (gold and silver) run into black on the
top. I sprayed it that way and it looks really good.
That was the first kit we did and I think it looks better than we expected when we started. I'm looking forward to completing the second kit
we're working on now, the other Enterprise set.
Martin Koza
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