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Sometimes when you suffer extreme stress, or have been weathering a great deal of challenge, the hobby challenges that are normal and expected opportunities to overcome become tedious and stressful. Been there...survived it. I find taking on a similar, accomplishment-likely effort before...

I wonder if I can find that old JBats version of the Ent-J to send you.... nudge-nudge....

Nice work and great pics!

Nice!

Thanks for sharing! Real nice sets! Any word on the other project; to do the Blockade Runner in a larger scale?

Your build thread, and suggestions for future builders, is a great resource! Thanks much!

Merry Christmas; and may you get paper, not coal, in your stockings!!! But watch out for paper cuts on your feet...

I look forward to your builds. How much larger will your builds be than the original scale?

I'd love to hear more, and see pics, of your lighting solutions!!!

This is really clean work! I am most impressed with how tight your fit of the parts is. Does the kit assemble well? Just to drop in on the bridge questions; the angled bridge was never actually cannon, nor approved by Roddenberry. It was accepted by many because of when, and how, it was...

We're getting rained out here! Not very spooky, but very wet!

And you could do a thread like this one, comparing the kits, just in your case, comparing the Clever's versus the RAWEN's!

I don't know. I corresponded with RAWEN a few months back who told me his plans. I hadn't checked with him since, but I expect that what he'll provide will be very well worth any weight!

How did you effect the superglue process? Might you share your technique that worked?

That's a pretty ship! Who made the 2 foot Excelsior? RAWEN's was about 6-8" long and Clever's pretty similar; maybe a foot? Where'd you find that? Sorry about the printer. It wasn't my opossum that got it, I am sure... :laughrolling:

" Starfleet vessels look so attractive because of their fluent lines which almost look organic" That's a very good point. I have a couple of Star Wars kits, and am looking forward to RAWEN's upcoming large-scale corvette/blockade runner (which will most likely have his well thought out...

I get your point. You may be right, but I do see promise in both of these. They both need new versions, possibly even author cooperation? I respect authors of paper models. They do amazing jobs with their minds and pixels. It is sometimes hard for authors to see how difficult it is to...

Conclusion. Neither kit is fully better than the other. Both have strengths and both have weaknesses, and sometimes one kit is better in some aspects but worse in others, when compared. Overall, though harder to puzzle together, the PSF makes fo a better fitting kit, save for the underside...

Again, neither kit is fully there; some combination of the two would be best. The engineering hull bottom is better shaped on the PSF kit, but the stern better on the Clever kit. The markings are not well done, though on the Clever kit [see pic 1]. There are transporter emitters where there...

The main deflector is very different on both kits. The housing and bracing is more effective on the Clever kit, providing more shape and an inset brace that stages the deflector better [see pic 1]. It takes bit of patience and experimentation, but after puzzling it through you're able to figure...