Post by kpnuts on Dec 14, 2013 14:12:21 GMT
hi all i have a cutaway AMT model 1\650 Star Trek Enterprise and i thought it would put some life back into an old model if i did a bit of a conversion on it.
So a little back story first
On the 13th of September 1959 the USSR landed the first manned spacecraft the USSRSC 1701 Rasputin on the moon. It was piloted by Russian cosmonauts Loenid Popov, Svetlana Savitskaya and Aleksandr Serebrov.
10 years later the USSRSC 1701 F Igor manned ship landed on Mars and promptly vanished, a second craft was immediately sent to investigate the disappearance and found no evidence whatever of the craft. It was decided that no further flights to Mars would be made until the disappearance was solved. 30 years later the original crew reappeared and explained that they had been contacted by an alien race called zulcans and invited to their planet and after 30 years of of studying them the zulcans decided humans were ready for interplanetary travel and gave them the plans for a warp drive, and so we built our first warp drive ship and we began our exploration of space.
The first captain of the USSRSC Vladimir Putin was Jarod T Kirkovski.
and so begins the conversion.
these are a few pics of original model minus decals after having good scrub with a scouring pad.
and now some roughly drawn on scribing lines
and now with said lines scribed
i am going to do the ship as if it has been in a massive space battle and has been crippled so will be cutting blast holes in her.
i have done some checking on the internet an have found there are only 2 other kits avaliable of the same scale a klingon battle cruiser or a romulan bird of prey so i think i will be using the klingon battle cruiser as the other antagonist.
so what do you think.
So a little back story first
On the 13th of September 1959 the USSR landed the first manned spacecraft the USSRSC 1701 Rasputin on the moon. It was piloted by Russian cosmonauts Loenid Popov, Svetlana Savitskaya and Aleksandr Serebrov.
10 years later the USSRSC 1701 F Igor manned ship landed on Mars and promptly vanished, a second craft was immediately sent to investigate the disappearance and found no evidence whatever of the craft. It was decided that no further flights to Mars would be made until the disappearance was solved. 30 years later the original crew reappeared and explained that they had been contacted by an alien race called zulcans and invited to their planet and after 30 years of of studying them the zulcans decided humans were ready for interplanetary travel and gave them the plans for a warp drive, and so we built our first warp drive ship and we began our exploration of space.
The first captain of the USSRSC Vladimir Putin was Jarod T Kirkovski.
and so begins the conversion.
these are a few pics of original model minus decals after having good scrub with a scouring pad.
and now some roughly drawn on scribing lines
and now with said lines scribed
i am going to do the ship as if it has been in a massive space battle and has been crippled so will be cutting blast holes in her.
i have done some checking on the internet an have found there are only 2 other kits avaliable of the same scale a klingon battle cruiser or a romulan bird of prey so i think i will be using the klingon battle cruiser as the other antagonist.
so what do you think.