You may want to mask off the nacelle and primary hull domes and other large clear parts to keep them from getting a frosted look if you use semi-gloss or flat clear coating. You’ll need to apply all the Aztec decals and THEN, after clear coating, apply the kit-supplied Starfleet pennants, registry number and name decals over the Aztec decals, and then apply one final clear coat. While aftermarket adhesive paint masks are sold for a number of starship model kits so that Aztec patterns can be painted on, Round2 has offered a number of elaborate Aztec decal sheets for their models, normally sold separately to give the modeler a choice to either paint or use decals to recreate this unique look.ĭecals sitting nicely into the hull’s details and panel lines Now with starships mainly rendered as CG models, the paint schemes are even more elaborate (artists can duplicate an elaborate Aztec pattern with a keystroke as opposed to painstakingly painting section after section on a model).
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The Aztec paint job on the 1979 Enterprise refit seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture was done to add visual interest to the ship so it would hold up on the big screen, and this design aesthetic became a familiar one on subsequent Federation starship designs-but those were depicted by quite large models (the movie Enterprise miniature was 8 feet in length) that gave Hollywood model makers a pretty big canvas to paint on. One artifact from the age of computer-generated visual effects design where Star Trek is concerned is the era of super elaborate Aztec paint schemes and the resultant headaches for modelers. Warp end caps–a challenge to paint if you’re going to light the kit
One odd ramification of the lighting kit is that the Enterprise shuttlebay doors and the U-shaped deck extension behind them is molded in clear, which will create a light-blocking challenge since there’s an LED positioned directly behind the doors-apparently the reason is so that light can be transmitted into the deck piece and, if masked properly, give you a little lit-up shuttlecraft landing strip. The kit also provides two small motors that turn two inner clear domes with “fan blade” details molded into them included in the model kit in order to reproduce the familiar “spinning” warp energy effect at the front of the nacelles. There are clear red nacelle domes for the front of the warp engines, red impulse engine vents, clear blue engine grills, end caps, and a couple of other small clear parts for the warp engine lighting. The lighting kit (not incorporated into our build) consists of a number of prewired LEDs that plug into a circuit board that is set inside the secondary hull of the model, as well as colored clear plastic parts to replace some of the model’s clear parts. Round2 has made a lighting kit available for the Enterprise that costs about the same as the model itself. If you have enjoyed any of the pieces Jim has painted you can support the project either by making your own request, sharing the paintings via social media or purchasing any of the products on this site,” he wrote.So THAT’S where the photon torpedoes come out!
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Using Microsoft Paint, Jim has painted hundreds of suggestions ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous – each free of charge.
“Jim’ll Paint It is an ongoing collaboration between Jim and the thousands of complete strangers who send him their weird and wonderful ideas. The images assumed what would become the standard format for the posts: a letter written to Jim from a reader detailing a situation, along with Jim’s presentation of the situation as depicted in MS Paint. James Murray posted the first three pictures on Jim’ll Paint it on February 21, 2013. The resulting pictures are prized and often shared on social media. Jim’ll Paint It is a single topic blog where a man named jim solicits suggestions from readers of humorous or strange situations to paint in MS Paint.
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