Almost there...

Decals, weathering, and some masking and painting are left (as well as some nice pictures...these ones are not the best), but the Enterprise is almost there.

A few added notes:

• The overall grey color is a Krylon Spray Bomb called Pewter Grey...it has a nice, green-blue hint to it that I think is perfect for the Enterprise...perhaps not studio model accurate, but pretty darn sharp looking.




• I may revisit the work on the windows...I base-coated the ship silver, masked off the windows with Tamiya tape, and the top-coated. The windows look great when light is glancing off of them, but they all but disappear into the grey hull otherwise. My solution will probably be to cut a large number of rectangles from very thin styrene and glue them to the surface of the hull.




• The sensor array/dish is made from a dollar store wine glass...I removed the base of the pedestal, cut it down, and built up the middle with plumbers epoxy. The little pin/nub/tip is styrene tubing. It is by far one of the rougher aspects of the model, and I may re-visit it in the future.




• One of the aspects of the model that is really bugging me is the phaser emitter base, and the conical part of the primary hull. The emitter/dome should be sitting on a plateau of sorts, instead of tapering directly into the emitter.
  

Having said that, I'm quite pleased with the results thus far. It was a real bastard of a build, but also a lot of fun.