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More pics! From The Art of Star Trek main page:

In fact, that's one of the points Ed Miarecki tried to make. He contended that under bright studio lights much of the weathering would be washed out. I wish theree were a way to test that theory.

I used a straight edge, an X-Acto chisel blade, a flat file, and sanding sticks to make recessed slots. Took some time but I was pretty happy with the slots when I finished. I used the secondary hull parts from the Polar Lights 1/1000 kit for reference.

How do we know what it looks like? Not sure what you mean Jon.

These are some pics I took in my garage using my starfield backdrop. I had originally taken these in very low light and when I saved them to my PC they were extemely dark, virtually black. Thinking they were unsalvageable I filed them away for years until rediscovering them and finding out they could be lightened and the contrast adjusted to render something presentable after all! These may look better or worse to you, the viewer, depending on the brightness settings on your computer monitor. This picture was taken by my dentist with his "mouth" camera:

Here are some pics taken of my AMT 18" Enterprise I finished back in 2005. This represents the Enterprise on year 5 of it's 5 year mission with upgrades having been made to the saucer, bussard sensors and main deflector dish. The model took about a year from start to finish and is fully lit with a detailed scratch-built shuttle bay and Galileo shuttle. The model is weathered to resemble the studio model in it's current state at the Smithsonian, as such, critics of the restoration performed by Ed Miarecki may consider it overweathered. My intent; however, was to build a model with some character in an effort to differentiate it from other builds of this kit. On it's cherrywood stand: Nameplate; More pics: Detail PIcs (the engines spin): In the dark:

Thanks Gil. Will do!

Thanks Mark. I have a lot of pics of my sci-fi models on Photobucket I can post and plan on doing so in the discussion forum. Steve

Thanks for the welcome John and I'd like to attend a meeting of the group in Milpitas someday. Steve

Thanks for the warm welcome Randy. I'd like to attend one of the meetings of the Hornets at some point but I'm not exactly sure when as I have a lot of stuff going on with family health issues but I do appreciate the invitation. Steve

Very nice paint job on your Qo'noS One Simon. Are the windows lit or is that just really white paint?

Sorry. First time posting here so took me a sec to figure out what was wrong. You should be able to see them now. You can see more pics in on my Photobucket album here (including quite a few WIP photos): http://s146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/Trekriffic/Martian%20Diorama/

Here are some pics of a Martian diorama I finished a few years ago. The ship on the right is the Glencoe Mars Liner kit reissued several years ago. The ship on the left is a retro-50's inspired spaceplane I scratched from an F16 Eagle snapkit and a dollar store booklight. The backdrop depicts the Olympus Mons escarpment on Mars with the two ships having made an emergency landing after a near fatal encounter with the asteroid belt. This dio won the "Best Diorama" award in the 2009 "Wiffie" modeling contest over on the What If forum.

A very clean looking build. Very nice!

Just wanted to say hi to everyone here. I just registered today after hearing about the IPMS over on another forum. Been modeling for over 40 years I guess. As a kid I built cars, ships, planes, and sci-fi models. Now in my 50's I concentrate on the sci-fi genre, chiefly Star Trek and Irwin Allen subjects. I can spend up to a year working on a single model as I can't seem to build anything straight out-of-the-box anymore. Most everything I build needs some degree of modification to be even close to screen accurate which takes time of course; I also like to add lgihts to give my models a look of realism I never even thought about as a kid. I look forward to being a frequent visitor and contributor to the IPMS forums. Steve J