New Old Trek Kits!

[Warped9]

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A kit of that accuracy, but closer in size to the old AMT, one would fit the bill nicely.

My thinking as well.

Scale up the PL kit to 1/600 and include the extra parts for the alternate versions and then you'd really have something. And it would be more affordable (and more price accessible) than a 1/350 kit.

 

[Forbin]

Scale up the PL kit to 1/600 and include the extra parts for the alternate versions and then you'd really have something. .

Yes, a large kit with all the rough, lo-res features of a small kit blown up, that requires more putty than any other kit of its size to fix the gaps incurred by the upscaling process and a ton of aftermarket resin to fix the less-than-sharp detail that was necessary to the small size of the molds.

 

[Warped9]

Scale up the PL kit to 1/600 and include the extra parts for the alternate versions and then you'd really have something. .

Yes, a large kit with all the rough, lo-res features of a small kit blown up, that requires more putty than any other kit of its size to fix the gaps incurred by the upscaling process and a ton of aftermarket resin to fix the less-than-sharp detail that was necessary to the small size of the molds.

What I mean is that a new kit with new tooling is required in a decent scale.

 

[Vance]

Yes, a large kit with all the rough, lo-res features of a small kit blown up, that requires more putty than any other kit of its size to fix the gaps incurred by the upscaling process and a ton of aftermarket resin to fix the less-than-sharp detail that was necessary to the small size of the molds.

Well, actually, if the PL kit was made through computer-drafting and cutting, it's quite possible that you could get a kit that was the same quality by upscaling the 'computer-draft' and cutting from there. Obviously this depends heavily on how they did the master in the first place.

But, you know, I really like the PL scaling, even if my modeling skills are atrocious (sadly). It's an easy-to-use, easy-to-play-with model. Aside from the copyright stamp, I really don't see why anyone has a problem with it...

 

[Sector 7]

I'm telling my age, but I delivered a LOT of newspapers to pay for all my AMT Star Trek TOS models... Galileo shuttle, Spock with 3-headed snake, Enterprise, Klingon D-7, Romulan Warbird... yeah I bought 'em all... had to make a lot of repairs/modifications... but they were worth it!
Back then it was all I had... a chance to TOUCH something connected to TREK!!!
I'd welcome a chance to do that again... many years later (1990-ish) the local hobby shop displayed my new Star Trek & Star Wars models. It made me very proud!
I was fond of using black light model paint & displaying under black lights... it was a time-consuming labor of love!

 

[Captain Robert April]

Trippy....

 

[Forbin]

Scale up the PL kit to 1/600 and include the extra parts for the alternate versions and then you'd really have something. .

Yes, a large kit with all the rough, lo-res features of a small kit blown up, that requires more putty than any other kit of its size to fix the gaps incurred by the upscaling process and a ton of aftermarket resin to fix the less-than-sharp detail that was necessary to the small size of the molds.

What I mean is that a new kit with new tooling is required in a decent scale.

Then it's not a "scale up" of the existing kit, it's a whole new kit of the same subject.