Here's the link!http://www.starshipmodeler.biz/index.cfm?fuseaction=Product.display&product_id=1422
OH MY GAAWWD! DEC can't come SOOOONNN Enough!
OH MY GAAWWD! DEC can't come SOOOONNN Enough!
1/1000 ''REFIT'' ENTERPRISE! with azteks!
- Thread starter miraclefan
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Whoa. I have to get one of these.Here's the link!http://www.starshipmodeler.biz/index.cfm?fuseaction=Product.display&product_id=1422
That'll make the 6th model kit I have of the refit, too.
I already built the big one...
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Shweeeeeet!
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Shweeeeeet!
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Hey guy's all we need now is a 1/1000 U.S.S. RELIANT, and then we can act out ST2!
(zap-blam-kachom!)
(zap-blam-kachom!)
Hey guy's all we need now is a 1/1000 U.S.S. RELIANT, and then we can act out ST2!
I'm willing to bet a resin conversion kit will come of some garage kit company by March. If their leisurely about it.
This is the one I was hoping for.
Sexy.
--Alex
After a reliant, I REALLY want a Klingon Ka'Tinga class battlecrusier from the MOVIES! I'll make my own armada!
I'll make my own armada!
CaptainHawk1
Commodore
Let me start by saying, it's about flipin' time. I've been waiting for this kit for a long time and it was on no one's radar. Anyone want to buy my 1:350?
Unfortunately unlikely. There are a few problems with 1:1000 reliant conversion for this kit. It would require a whole crapload of modification to the saucer section and the nacelles to make it work and why bother when there are already really good complete 1:1000 GK's out there of the Reliant already? I really don't see a big enough demand out there for GK'er to put a bunch of time and energy into that project.
Hopfully they'll just surprise us and release 1:1000 Reliant kit without warning too.
The 1991 Ertl kit from ST:TUC is very good and JT graphics makes an accurizing kit that is flippin' phenomenal (albeit pricey @$90). I was so in love with it, that I bought it when it ifrst came out and I don't even plan to build the kit for another two years.
Also, you guys are aware that R2 is coming out with an Akira Class by the end of the year, right?
Hey guy's all we need now is a 1/1000 U.S.S. RELIANT, and then we can act out ST2!
I'm willing to bet a resin conversion kit will come of some garage kit company by March. If their leisurely about it.
Unfortunately unlikely. There are a few problems with 1:1000 reliant conversion for this kit. It would require a whole crapload of modification to the saucer section and the nacelles to make it work and why bother when there are already really good complete 1:1000 GK's out there of the Reliant already? I really don't see a big enough demand out there for GK'er to put a bunch of time and energy into that project.
Hopfully they'll just surprise us and release 1:1000 Reliant kit without warning too.
After a reliant, I REALLY want a Klingon Ka'Tinga class battlecrusier from the MOVIES!
The 1991 Ertl kit from ST:TUC is very good and JT graphics makes an accurizing kit that is flippin' phenomenal (albeit pricey @$90). I was so in love with it, that I bought it when it ifrst came out and I don't even plan to build the kit for another two years.
Also, you guys are aware that R2 is coming out with an Akira Class by the end of the year, right?
I'd like to see Round 2 find a good domestic mold maker so they can drop the Chinese company they're dealing with like a bad habit and maybe we could get an accurate D-7 for a change.
CaptainHawk1
Commodore
Don't quote me on this but I'm almost positive that all of R2's molds are all produced in the US and are then sent to China for the mass production of the kits. You can email them about that. They're very receptive and will give you a response.
Nope, the Akira has been put on "indefinite hold" in favor of getting the refit kit out first.
Yes I do, I used to have the Klingon Ka'Tinga model as a kid. But I would really like to get one in scale to the other 1/1000 kits out there!Let me start by saying, it's about flipin' time. I've been waiting for this kit for a long time and it was on no one's radar. Anyone want to buy my 1:350?
Hey guy's all we need now is a 1/1000 U.S.S. RELIANT, and then we can act out ST2!
I'm willing to bet a resin conversion kit will come of some garage kit company by March. If their leisurely about it.
Unfortunately unlikely. There are a few problems with 1:1000 reliant conversion for this kit. It would require a whole crapload of modification to the saucer section and the nacelles to make it work and why bother when there are already really good complete 1:1000 GK's out there of the Reliant already? I really don't see a big enough demand out there for GK'er to put a bunch of time and energy into that project.
Hopfully they'll just surprise us and release 1:1000 Reliant kit without warning too.
After a reliant, I REALLY want a Klingon Ka'Tinga class battlecrusier from the MOVIES!
The 1991 Ertl kit from ST:TUC is very good and JT graphics makes an accurizing kit that is flippin' phenomenal (albeit pricey @$90). I was so in love with it, that I bought it when it ifrst came out and I don't even plan to build the kit for another two years.
Also, you guys are aware that R2 is coming out with an Akira Class by the end of the year, right?
and about that 1/350 1701-A model, I might be interasted in buying it, if your serious! it just depends on what condition the model is in? and if you take Postal money orders!
Which I think is a good idea! As much as I want to see an AKIRA in 1/1000 they (Round2) would not be able to sell to many of them, especialy at the presumed $45-50 price tag per kit!
This way they can sell MANY more models at a more affordible price $15-20 a kit, that many a model builder (like myself) will be willing to buy 1 or 2 casses worth of kits!
DO WANT!!!
CaptainHawk1
Commodore
Well, now I'm just pissed but that refit actually makes the Akira more likely to be successful.
CaptainHawk1
Commodore
Does anyone know another source for this kit besides SSM. They're completely out.
CaptainHawk1
Commodore
Do you actually own a Bandai version or are you making this assessment based on the box art or pictures you've seen online?
I ''had'' 3 of the 5 Bandai Japan trek kits. They are beautiful, but there were some MAJOR FLAWS!
one of the kits ''light switch'' melted! another one had light showing thru the gaps (seams) of the model, some pieaces didn't even fit!
the AZTEC painting was a PLUS, but!considering many, many flaws in the kits design (which was a suprise considering they were made by Ban Dai!) I warn you to avoid these kits at all cost! unless you just want to keep them in the box as a collectore piece.
I dunno. You would need the extended hull for the saucer, the rollbar, and the pylons. You could make an unlightable reliant conversion with only 4 resin parts. Granted, there are differences in the bridge area and the nacelles. Plus some greeblies on the ventral saucer, but you could put together a passible GK kit pretty easily, depending on how the kit pieces break down. You may be right though if there are already good whole kits out there in this scale. But still, I bet there is a conversion kit made by someone, given that it would involve less resin and therefore be cheaper than a whole kit. There's a niche for that I'd think.
Still once this hits the stores I'm gonna buy one a month for the whole year!
--Alex
