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I swear, back in 2003, the plan was to just buy one Polar Lights model, and build it as the Enterprise. Just one. Once I got around to working on it, though, I wasn't entirely satisfied with the results, decided to instead label it as the Lexington, and called it a practice model. Then, I bought another kit, and decided to do it as a practice model in the first pilot configuration. I ended up not quite satisfied with that one, and labeled it as the Constitution. At that point, I was bitten by the bug to build both pilot variations of theEnterprise, and ended up doing so.
Eventually, I reached a point where I decided to be the first kid on my block to have the 12 Constitutions. Of course, I've also built variants using aftermarket conversion kits and my own scratchbuilding, such as the three Franz Joseph designs, the Ventura from CREW (which is a design I really dig), and a conjectural, TOS-era Reliant.
Soon, this will all come full-circle, and I'll finally build the Enterprise in its proper series configuration, using all of the new painting and weathering information which has come out since the filming model's restoration for the NASM.
Of course, all of this is serving as good R & D for the 1/350 model, which I'm working on slowly but surely. That will be my final statement on the subject.
It's all been a very unintended--yet fun--journey! And an addiction. I saw the new, pre-painted version of the 1/1000 scale kit at Hobby Lobby, last week, and found myself tempted to buy it. Despite the fact that it's a beginner version of the kit aimed at novice modelers, with all of the markings and colors are already printed/molded onto/into the unassembled parts. As I've done better work with the advanced version of the kit, there would be no point in buying it, unless I were to strip all of the markings off and paint/decal from scratch.
So, yeah, I guess I'm an addict.
But, why wouldn't I be? The Enterprise is still the best spaceship design of all time, and I never get tired of looking at it!
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