Considering how small the hand painted areas are, it doesn't make much sense to include the brush paint bottles.
Small black dots in the primary hull recesses (upper left)
Silver paint in the rear ridge centers of the warp drives (Upper right)
Two small red dots on the top of the bridge (bottom)
You can't brush paint the black into the round recesses. You could dip a sharpened dowel in the paint and touch the centers of the recess making a round dot.
I used Sharpie pens.
Rotating a larger round point pen in the hole left a center where the tip couldn't reach.
A ultra fine point Sharpie filled in the center.
Here's the finished black.
The Sharpies came through again.
The red dots were done with a fine point brush.
This Klingon nose cone reminds me of Squidward.
The "Bonus" kit included a bottle of red paint - for these two little dots. No other red on the model.
If you've got a decent square brush, it's easier than you would think.
I vaguely recall that if you had both the USS Enterprise and the Klingon Cruiser kits in the anniversary boxed edition with paint, you *almost* had all the colors of paint you'd need for both models. There were some paint colors that you'd need for both kits that was in one box but not the other.
ReplyDeleteHi Noato,
DeleteThat might be true about paints for both kits. After finishing up two of these I don't really have a desire to build the Enterprise!
The USS Enterprise kit did indeed pose its own set of challenges. Some of the difficulties encountered include:
Delete* the secondary hull parts would easily distort (due to the thinness of the parts) and somewhat "wobbly" during sanding making a straight,even edge a challenge.
* the nacelle tailcap liner was a tad too wide to fit inside the nacelle endcap -- had to cut some narrow "darts" out so that I can get them to fit -- I still had one of the tailcaps from the tension from the rather tight fit.
* The wood parts were plywood, which were somewhat "fuzzy"
* The nacelle pylons had a dowel along the trailing edge - resulting in a groove that needed to be filled.
* Gluing the secondary hull halves to the inner frame proved to be a bit of a challenge due to the thin vacuform parts to easily distort -- it was quite easy to end up with the parts ending up twisted. Ended up having to "massage" the parts during assembly to get everything straight.
Had a minor disaster during painting -- the camouflage grey paint ended up cracking when it dried. Had to sand the surface down and repaint.
One of the things I'd be tempted to use on the Klingon Cruiser kit is the paint scheme described in the instructions on the 1:1000 scale plastic model kit from Polar Lights. Apparently the original filming miniature featured a two-tone paint scheme -- the dorsal (i.e. top) side was sort of a purple shade, while the ventral (i.e. bottom) side was sort of a blue-green shade.
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Hi Naoto,
DeleteI kept it simple and went with the recommended overall light gray. The two-tone would certainly be more interesting.