USS Voyager NCC74656

[Airconvent]

For those few trekkies here, just to let you know I have finally started and completed the Bandai USS Voyager. These kits are really worth the money! Full colour details, excellent built quality and best of all, no glue needed!
This series even comes with built in lights for that effect especially in the dark!
I already completed the Enterprice NX-01 and the constitution class NCC1701. This NCC74656 Intrepid Class was completed yesterday. I still have the Sovereign Class USS Enterprise NCC1701E left to built!

Live Long and Prosper!


Here are the images :

With lights on taken minutes after I completed it last night.


Better quality photo takem today but this time I placed weak batteries in by mistake!


Front view :


The "family"....

[Sam Lee]

Richard,

The intrepid looks good ! It must look good when you lit it up in a dark room!
Maybe you should 'mod' it abit so that the naccells can move up for the warp configuration.

Looking forward to your 1701E !

[starfinder]

Very good models!

Where did you buy them? Any shops in town? Roughly what's the price of the USS Voyager?

I have lost "trek" of the happenings in the galactic world, though. The last I remember, Capt James T. Kirk encountered Jean-Luc Picard or something like that.

[Airconvent]

Richard,

The intrepid looks good ! It must look good when you lit it up in a dark room!
Maybe you should 'mod' it abit so that the naccells can move up for the warp configuration.

Looking forward to your 1701E !

Sam..the warp nacelle can be folded up! But the ship looks best in this mode. And yes, with alkaline new batteries, they really look like the ship will fly! heh heh

Very good models!

Where did you buy them? Any shops in town? Roughly what's the price of the USS Voyager?

I have lost "trek" of the happenings in the galactic world, though. The last I remember, Capt James T. Kirk encountered Jean-Luc Picard or something like that.

Gavin,
I got this as a birthday gift from my colleagues...the other three, I bought from Falcon's Hangar. (www.tfh.com.sg) They are very cheap as they import directly by hand. If you want to buy anything from Japan/Hong Kong, just let them know and they will get it from you if they do not have it. They specialise in Bandai and human model kits.

But these ST models are already out of production so you are more likely to find leftover stocks of the original Enterprise as that one has cult status.
I think I saw some at Morgan Hobby at Katong shopping centre but those are very expensive.
They typically cost around $150-$180 if you bought them elsewhere but tfh sold them to me at special price as I was a member of the local Star Trek Fan Club previously. Paid around $120 each for them. The Enterprise E (from Star Trek Nemesis) which I have not built yet is selling on ebay for up to US$120 and maybe more.

This Bandai model is presently the BEST models of the ST ships you can get. They are very rich in detail as they got the original Hollywood model designer to help. The lighting assembly is so well designed and quality so good its a joy to build them. I understand there is also the Enterprise D, the Excelsior and Klingon Bird of Brey in the series too.

You can find them here www.hlj.com (search for star trek) but now the Bandai sets are very hard to get. They only stock those you have to glue together and paint yourself.

Here is a review on the Enterprise E that I have not built yet. The review applies to all models in the series:
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/trek/cm_bente.htm

Info on the various Enterprises:
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/trek/trekship.htm

You can try here :
http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/Stars ... S_400.html


And here they even have a model of the new Battlestar Galactica! but you need to paint it yourself.
http://toys.listings.ebay.com/Models-Ki ... ngItemList

[cataclysm]

Hi Richard they are beautiful!
How about a project on the Apollo model. The Saturn V rockets are really impressive!

[Airconvent]

Hi
Rockets are quite boring to me...they are so tubular!

I was searching for the new Battlestar Galactica but apparently, the copyright owners were so skimpy not many model companies got the license. Would be great if Bandai gets it. I used to have the Excelsior too but this is the AMT set which needs glue and painting and I lost interest. Sold it off eventually.

For astro stuff, I think the ISS, Viking or Voyager space probe would have been nicer. A Japanese company released a set of these as micro-miniatures. You can find them at Comix Connection. (I bought only the ISS, not the whole set..heh heh)

[Sam Lee]

Rich, you planning to do the 1701D Galaxy class ?
It looks huge.!

[Airconvent]

Rich, you planning to do the 1701D Galaxy class ?
It looks huge.!

actually the Voyager is quite big but I think the biggest is the Enterprise E.
Did not get the D though. Did not quite like its design anyway. And don't forget, the models at discount cost $120 each! Can't afford to buy the entire collection!

[starfinder]

Hey tks Rich for the trove of info! Interesting sites, esp www.hlj.com

I would like to also one day build a Space Shuttle set, compleat with launch pad and separable boosters. And what's more, a Hubble Space Telescope that pops out of its cargo bay.

Hmmm... maybe something like this one:
http://www.hlj.com/product/HSG10729

A difficulty would be, not so much getting and building them, but finding the storage/display space. What with all the scope gear and tripods already. Oh well, would have to be selective: maybe one Space Shutle and one Star Trek starship.

[Sam Lee]

Quick complete the 1701E ! I especially like the 1701E . I feel that its well designed and streamlined.
The 'universe' friendly warp nacells means no more warp pollutions . haha. and equipped with quantum torpedoes !