Enterprise D - from "Generations"

[Igard]

Just what Grendels said. Well worth it. She's a beauty mate!

 

[The Nylon Gag]

Wow, those windows look fantastic.

Nice work sir.

Gag

 

[Glorfindel]

Soong your out of control. You could be bats#@t crazy! But Iiiiiiiiiiiiii like it.

 

[Often wrong Soong]

Hello folks, time for another update...with plenty of photo's! I'm determined to put this never-ending masking hell behind me so I've been hitting it quite hard for the last few days, and i'm happy to say that the entire secondary hull has been finished! At last!! Here's the final masking layer applied all over the hull:

After a couple of (very theraputic!) hours of peeling, all the masks were gone and I went around and finished the odds and ends by hand:

Then I turned my attention back to the trench covers on the pylon wing. Now, I had made my own cover details to go here a while ago, but I wasn't very happy with them and was a bit stuck as to how to tackle them. Then, my fiancee ordered the photo-etch phaser details from DLM and, as an extra b'day prezzie from Don himself, a set of the photo-etch covers came in the package for free! How cool is that?! So I put them to good use!
The parts from Don are designed to cover the trench created to bury the wires running up to the nacelles and are naturally a little longer than the actual details on the 6footer. As I covered the entire rear wing there was no trench to cover so I cut the parts down to the proper size, primed, painted and stuck them in place...sorted! Here's how that went:

Then the whole thing was given the same misting the saucer was given to pull the tones together, the main impulse mask came off and the deflector finally saw the light of day for the first time in months! I've plucked a few windows to have a quick look, theres some damage around a few windows that need to be fixed but nothing fatal:

And, just for fun, here's the saucer pushed on just to get a flavour of things:

Next up, more window plucking and the nacelle aztecing to finish

Cheers everyone
Soong

 

[Grendels]

She looks very nice, and I have wondered about those photo etch upgrades for a while, nice to see them in place.

 

[ScreamingSamuraiStudio]

Awesome paint and lighting!

 

[smusno]

the captain likes it.

 

[Glorfindel]

Soooooo what's the sale price on this thing when it hits the open market? A few shillings I wage.

 

[Quaralane]

Simply fabulous.

 

[Often wrong Soong]

She looks very nice, and I have wondered about those photo etch upgrades for a while, nice to see them in place.

Thanks John. I've not had much experience with photoetch so far, apart from the museum window part on the Moebius Galactica, but I'm really liking them. I cant wait to get the phaser and transporter emitter details on

Awesome paint and lighting!

Cheers buddy, I've been working through your youtube videos...LOVE the Slave 1 paint effects, so much so that I'm seriously considering popping my Star Wars cherry on one of those bad boys! If I do I'll be grilling you about it!

the captain likes it.

If he likes it so much, why did he slam it into the dirt?? Oh, that was Riker....what an amatuer!

Simply fabulous.

Thanks dude, just trying to hold it together and not mess it up at the last hurdle!

Soooooo what's the sale price on this thing when it hits the open market? A few shillings I wage.

Funny you should mention that, I have been considering selling it when it's done. I've never sold any of my builds before but this one might have to go to help pay for other stuff :-\
The other question is my location, living in the U.K kind of limits things - I'd hate to send it overseas and get destroyed on the way. I'll decide one way or the other when I'm closer to finishing her

Cheers everyone, more soon I hope

Soong

 

[trekriffic]

This is a masterpiece! The colors are spot on and all that masking is really incredible. Such patience! And you do windows too! Just a remarkable build alround OWS!

 

[Glorfindel]

Soong you do windows? Can you take a flight States side and do my spring cleaning too?

 

[Tick-Tock]

Hey Soong. After your base coat of black on the model, what color did you use as the main color for the ship before you did Azteking?

 

[ZOMBIEREPELLENT]

Tick tock, he mentioned earlier in the thread when I asked him. It's a custom mix, and that it's easier to add drops of blue to white, than it is a bunch of white to some blue.

I feel this thread could use a well deserved bump.

Any updates?

 

[Often wrong Soong]

Thanks for the bump dude 8)

I'm sad to say I haven't put much work into it lately, the windows are seriously kicking my backside! I thought the aztecing would be the back-breaker of this build but getting the windows cleaned up is proving to be the REAL hard job! I am picking away at it though, I've got about 3/4 of the windows plucked and refined, and started the nacelle aztecs. Once the windows are behind me it'll pick up pace again I'm sure

Cheers for the support everyone

Wayne

 

[Igard]

Soong/Wayne, take your time and make her look nice.

As old Dr. McCoy said to Data, "You treat her like a lady.. and she'll always bring you home".

Well, I don't know about bringing you home, but she'll look great! ;D

 

[Glorfindel]

Soong/Wayne, take your time and make her look nice.

As old Dr. McCoy said to Data, "You treat her like a lady.. and she'll always bring you home".

Well, I don't know about bringing you home, but she'll look great! ;D

Wow look at Igard quoting from season 1.

 

[Often wrong Soong]

Time for an update then! I've finally made enough progress to post plenty of pics, it's been a massive slog trying to get through the window refining stage but I'm finally getting towards the end...!

I've refined all of the lower saucer windows, they look way better now

Close up

I've got most of the upper windows done, and started on the secondary hull windows. There's quite a few light leaks on the secondary hull which need to be sorted out but I'll get to them

 

[Often wrong Soong]

The most progress has been made on the nacelles, which are all completely azteced, details painted and ready for decals! Here's the 2nd and 3rd layer masks

Here's how the aztecing turned out after the mist coat

And here they are with all of the paint work done, first unlit

 

[Often wrong Soong]

And now lit

I'm very pleased with how these turned out, the camera accentuates the hot spots though, they look smoother to the eye.

Thats all for now, hope you enjoy the pics. I'll be back soon when I start adding the photo-etch details and get all of the remaining windows plucked on the dorsal hull

Thanks for the support everyone, much appreciated!!

Wayne