Miniature Enterprise D Refit

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Just thought I'd share a few pics of a neat miniature I bought for $8 at the local hobby shop. It was a grab bag, so I wasn't sure what I'd be getting, but one of the employees helped me guess at which one might be the Enterprise D by fondling the package and looking at the bar code. He will receive 10 cool points when I take over the world.

It's about 10cm long - about iPhone-size, actually. I bought it thinking I could cast a mold of each of its separate snap-together pieces, then create kitbashes (YAY for kitbashes! We need more of those!), but I'm inexperienced, and I think I'm going to experiment with easier things for starters.
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You can definitely see the imperfections, but for the money, who cares! It's a good looking mini. Now it sits on my desk, reminding me of my geeky obsession with Trek.
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Looks good.
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Very nice. How good are you with fine detail brushes? You could probably improve upon that if you wished.
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Not bad for $8, if your good with an airbrush you could probably turn that into an excellent model.
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Too bad I'm terrible with my hands. Well, at least hobby wise...
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Grundig wrote:Too bad I'm terrible with my hands. Well, at least hobby wise...
So, what are your hands good for that isn't a hobby? :lol:
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I went through my old storage stuff during the move, and I found my Star Trek micro machines! Sets number 1 and 2!!!
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I used to have all but one of them (the set with the Ferengi ship). Now I'm down to 12 ships. Wish I had paid attention to where I put them.
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Mark wrote:I went through my old storage stuff during the move, and I found my Star Trek micro machines! Sets number 1 and 2!!!
I used to have a ton of those, but they ended up getting quite beaten up, and I threw them out several years ago.
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They were neat, but kinda flimsy, and by the time I got them my imagination was thoroughly suppressed by television.
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Grundig wrote:They were neat, but kinda flimsy, and by the time I got them my imagination was thoroughly suppressed by television.
I played with toys until I was 12. :lol:
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And then again at...

I mean, there's toys... and then there's toys.
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Mikey wrote:And then again at...

I mean, there's toys... and then there's toys.
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Okay, I'll clarify: I owned Ninja Turtles when I was 12. :lol:

I still don't own any adult toys, though I really should.
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