The turbolift door is too large and the alcove too shallow while the main viewer is too small and the frame surrounding it far too deep. To obtain even a minimal "in the ballpark" kind of accuracy, both of those sections, the panels and the flooring wedges would have to be scratch built.
Actually, as I recall (and I don't have mine in front of me), I simply added a painted cardstock frame around the turbolift door. I also added FJS's non-canonical exit by the screen (leading to a maintenance corridor, the bridge head, and an emergency gangway to deck 2), which
did require altering a floor section.
The only photograph of a built-up model visible in the page is the splash-screen for the video (which I might have time to look at sometime this afternoon)
But I definitely see more figures (and no, I'm not going to go into Groucho's
Strange Interludes parody from
Animal Crackers!), and I also see more accurate display screens and control panel decals.
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The video splash image is
not linked to the video;
I provide that link here. Be forewarned, it's nearly an hour long (I ran it at double speed, and skipped over large pieces of it).
I see that Round 2
did add the missing perimeter consoles, and
did include consoles with only one overhead screen (I'm not convinced they ended up in the right places in the video, but I'd have to check what docs I have). But they did
not fix the overhead screens to the "layered" version of the actual production set: the color boundaries are marked with the same raised lines as in the original kit.
The chair bases still don't match the actual production chair bases (and the video gets the color wrong on the un-upholstered portions), and McCoy's hair color is wrong. Oh, and I don't get why they finished the working surfaces of the consoles in dead-flat (or eggshell, or even semi-gloss) paint, given that those surfaces were high-gloss on the actual set.
I'm frankly puzzled about the whole business of putting decals over raised buttons in places; I can't imagine you'd really be able to get them to draw down even if you used all the Solvaset that Walthers has produced in the past decade. On the other hand, the panel and screen decals look much better than what came in the original kit.
