USS Constellation 1/1000 Polar Lights

[YOULI]

Doomsday machine is one of my favorite episode from TOS Star Trek.
When i bought the conversion kit to do the USS COnstellation, I was so happy that I built it immediatly... It took me some weeks but the final result is here.

Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures. It was done 4 or 5 years ago with a lousy numeric camera I got for free. Silly me. Don't have more recent pictures since the kit is somewhere packaged and need to be fixed (painting and resin part bending).

 

[trekriffic]

THIS TURNED OUT EXCELLENT!

I'd be interested in hearing more about how you did the damage.

 

[Grendels]

A nice build!

 

[YOULI]

Thank you

No mistery here, even if it would be easy to do with the original parts, I bought a conversion kit on Starship Modeler (it includes the damaged Saucer, the damaged areas of the nacelles, pilones etc.) and voila !

The fun part is that the command bridge is different from the one provided by POlar Lights. It was modified because, in fact, the USS COnstellation was done for the show with a simple, plastic model kit. So the command bridge is not right if you use the Polar Lights kit.

Ultimatly I have to do one with the old model kit. I've got several of it. What I learned with the PL kit could proove to be useful.

 

[trekriffic]

Yes. They used the old AMT kit in the original episode so the Polar Lights kit would not match what was seen on screen. I really love this build!

 

[Quaralane]

Looks sharp.
Poor girl

 

[dazed1]

So I guess the next step is to build the doomsday machine itself and have the starship heading toward it for the ultimate sacrifice? ;D Seriously that is a great build. It certainly does look like the poor doomed Constellation. Good Job Sir.

 

[YOULI]

Thanks...

But, no, no Doomsday machine for me. Building an aluminium foil in a way that won't make laugh everyone around is beyond my humble capacities.

But I'll certainly do my own conversion, with the "old" Enterprise Model kit. In a way that would look like the modern, and modified VFX of the TOS Series.

Doing this kind of details is kinda challenge, but I really think I'm up for this kind of thing. And the scale is just perfect for using coffee spoons and other plastic profiles.

 

[Glorfindel]

Youli you madman! That looks so wicked photo shopped into a space backdrop with some debris. You should have put Matt Deckers' floating carcass bouncing off the hull.
Dang those struts and I-beams look sweet....all toasted and crispy. Great job.

 

[YOULI]

Well, at least it's reference photos, it gives me inspiration, not straight guidance

Never watch the "modified" TOS version... Should do that with a girlfriend of mine... She's in her Star Trek period