Trek

Here is a shot of the pre-TNG 1/2500 scale models I've been building, glued together, filled and sanded and ready for priming and painting. The white models are Federation starships; the Excelsior-class Enterprise B, the movie-era "re-fit" Enterprise and the Reliant. These are all from the AMT Cadet-series styrene kits. The green model is also an AMT Cadet kit, and is the Klingon K'tinga cruiser. The "cream-colored" model is a Klingon Bird-of-Prey from the AMT "Adversaries" kit - an older and less sophisticated model that required some scratch-built additions to complete satisfactorily. The blue models are resin kits from Delta Quadrant; a smaller 22nd Century Klingon Bird-of-Prey and two Romulan "Nemesis-era" Birds-of-Prey. The Delta kits are really nicely detailed.

Here is a photo showing three of the models - in proper scale with each other - next to the Attack Wing models. . . showing why I decided to "scale up."

The TNG-era starships start to get considerably larger. This photo shows a couple of the earlier models next to the "saucer" section from Picard's Enterprise D.

 A couple of weeks ago I dropped into the Mall of America to check out Star Trek: The Exhibition. The exhibit has been open awhile so I literally had it all to myself for an hour. It was kinda high on the "Cheese Scale" - props and costumes, in particular, almost always make we wish I hadn't seen them. But some of it was fun and I'm glad I went. You can actually sit in Kirk's captain's chair on a replica of the original TOS Enterprise bridge.

And, of course, we say thank you and good bye to Leonard Nimoy.