This looks phenomenal, and it has the one thing I'm looking for (not looking for?) in USS Enterprise models: It doesn't have the -A after 1701.
It sounds wierd, considering it's the same Motion Picture Filming Model, but once they put the NCC-1701-A registry number on the ship, it stopped being MY Enterprise.
@dolari You could always build your own to make sure it's right: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/387078703580
Nearly 3 feet long!
@cubeyterra - I actually have the Bandai 1:850 lightup one. I've had it in a box for MANY years, mainly because it's super fragile (I had one before, our shared cat mangled it). I don't want to build it until I have a permanent home...but seeing as that may never happen.....
@dolari Ooh, I have built that one. It's a very easy assembly, looks great, especially the astonishingly precise paint. I don't know about yours, but mine came with tiny incandescent bulbs, which are useless and eventually burn out — had to replace them with LEDs.
Def a nice display when you're done
@cubeyterra - Good to hear about the lights burning out! The cat my ex and I had at the time destroyed the model about a month after I built it, so I wasn't able to see the lights burn out. I may replace the lights BEFORE I assemble it just to make sure they keep working.
I also need to find a way to make the deflector blue. Maybe replacing the LED for that with a blue one would help. I don't remember if it's it's own light, or it's light piped elsewhere.
@dolari From my photos, here's the initial build using the rice lights. I remember being very frustrated with all those wires.
Anyway, yes. It has a single light behind the deflector, so you could replace it with a blue LED (and resistor) or paint the bulb with clear blue laquer?