https://www.bluebrixx.com/en/sets/star_trek They look really good, and they also have xenomorphs, the Nostromo, and the Sulaco...
Now I would rather have a non-bumpy set of very sleek saucers, secondary hills pylons and nacelles of different eras to mix and match. To emulate the styles. The TNG nacelle would still be TOS round…just a different surface treatment
The First Contact phaser rifle model is great. I never bought "non-Lego Lego" before, but when I saw this one resistance was futile.
That one is definitely on my list! Are there flat pieces that can be put above the remaining studs? Would LEGO pieces fit?
I don't understand why they left these knobs there in the first place, when the rest is so nice and smooth - to show that it's not a real gun? XD
I think it's more that people that make things out of Lego like to see that it's made out of Lego. If you wanted a realistic phaser rifle, there are plenty of resin kits that make something that looks considerably better and won't shatter into a zillion parts if you drop it.
The kits are more expensive though, right? All the "it's a toy!" markers I've seen have been bright orange tips, like on the ENT phase pistol, not stuff like little same-color studs you can barely see at a glance or from a distance
Exactly. It's a Lego style kit. No-one expects verisimilitude when Lego themselves do a Star Wars set covered in 'same coloured studs'. The pleasure comes from building it and seeing something cool made from Lego (or an equivalent). What you're doing is a little like complaining that Lego Luke Skywalker has clamps instead of hands. It is what it is in other words.