Every build should up your skill and challenge you. This model is the very essence of all of those things. Lord knows it isn't accurate...B and C deck section's too tall...the sensor array is made from a dollar store wine glass base, and is totally innaccurate, and the thickness of the primary hull is about 1/8 of an inch too thick. The shuttle bay section is definitely not accurate. But you know what? I am pretty proud of this ship...I'd have to say that having this model is like fulfilling one of those life-long ambitions (as stupid as that sounds). I would have lost my mind if I had this when I was ten or eleven...and like so many other things that I do, I'm motivated by what I imagined was possible when I was a kid. This thing is lumpy in places, and far from uniform and perfect...but I'm really glad that I have it.
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I like the fact that this has "some bumps" and that it is entirely hand-made from scratch. I too would have killed to have this when I was a kid, and it looks better than the cheap plastic model kit I assembled when I was -- the nacelles kept falling off.
Display it proudly, Bruce! Great job.
Thanks David! Yeah, the AMT model kit as it is today has adjusted some of the nacelle issues...but they still droop.
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