Polar Lights 1:350 Scale Star Trek Starship Enterprise, Part 11

Hull assembled, the lighting still works!

I had some light leaking issues with the blacked out windows - not nearly black enough. They seemed OK, but with all the final light in there after assembly of the two halves, it leaks. 

I reached inside with a long stick to apply some metal tape. It actually wasn't as hard to fix as I thought it might be.

There's a tricky bit of light leak around the shuttle bay doors and that upper window that is common on this kit. It is very hard to reach. I used a very fine brush and ran a thick craft paint along to seam down in there. The grey color I used does not match the hull color but it's not wildly off. Down in there you can't tell. I dusted it with a blast of the hull grey (Tamiya AS-32) and the problem is solved.

I used warm white for the windows, but a cool white, extra bright, LED for the ion pod (I think it's called?) on the side here. The brighter, larger, cooler light blinks.

Decals...

Inexplicably, the kit is missing a couple detail decals for the underside of the saucer. Oh well.

More decals...

I found all the decals so far to go on easily. They're good quality, I had no problems with them.

See all the posts for this project here.