Working on the Enterprise has been a blast. 🙂 My natural ingenuity has also come in handy. I’m not yet feeling skilled enough to light a model (chickenshit, I know), so I’m going with the clear parts provided within the kit. Navigation lights are lit in red and green…the kit provided only clear parts for this. :/ Now, I thought about paint…but also thought that paint would just be a coating over the p lactic, changing the clear, see-thru nature of the plastic to the color required…I just used red and green “Sharpie” pens for it. I got color, and the parts stayed transparent to boot. 🙂 As I type this, the saucer and neck are drying wrapped in rubber bands sealing it all together, and the shuttle bay (and very tiny Galileo shuttle) are done and ready to go into the body. To “light” the neck windows, the kit provided white plastic (which is an idea that works astonishingly well…kudos for them on that one), but several windows on the neck are shown in episodes as being not illuminated and to some extent, blackened out. Sharpies again. 🙂 Just some black Sharpie on the windows that weren’t supposed to be lit worked amazingly. 🙂 When things dry a bit and I take off the rubber bands, I’ll do a small spread of it all. 🙂
For now, have some Lola Lynn to brighten up your day. 🙂
Tolstoy
Lola Lynn
I am always amazed at people who can build models, Tony – me, the two or three times I tried to I made a hash out of it. In film school, when we were learning how to do special effects I basically spray-painted a pre-built toy silver – thankfully, model building wasn’t what we got graded on, because it was more important that you understood the principles of shooting miniatures.