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Ok..
... so it isnt painted yet but I think i've done a good job.

I have that EXACT model, just a bit smaller scale. And it dosen't come with Dauntlesses, I think it's just a generic fighter. Looks good.

And it is so sad the the real Enterprise was scrapped to, of all places, Japan. Cant wait to see it painted.

And there was me expecting Captain Kirk and Spock

NOTE: I am not a Star Trek fan, that's my Dad

Cant wait to see it painted.

Uh....yeah...painted...

I'll get round to it someday  :P

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Uh....yeah...painted...

I'll get round to it someday

I thought the idea was to paint all the bits first.

Yeah, I skipped that bit.

I thought the idea was to paint all the bits first.

You beat me to it... I hesitated, 'cuz it's been so long since I built a plastic model kit (in a haze of toluol fumes...) I wan't sure if I remembered it right!

First: paint all parts while still on trees (much easier to handle that way, how about that?
Second: cut parts off trees with knife or nail clippers
Third: file flash off; touch up paint.
Etc.

Good luck painting inside the hangar deck... !

Of course, the whole thing is gray already... maybe swab some thinner on it to give it that "weathered" look and call it done...

You only paint the fiddly bits first. Course, you often get carried away.

Looks great anark, though as a person who has assembled a few of those, including CVN 65 (nuclear USS Enterprise)  model which is about 2 feet 9 in long, I'd say that some parts should be painted before assembly.

Though I wouldn't paint them all like rotty said, sometimes you have to glue them together, and the glue that I have at least apparently work as a solvent as well, so I get a really messy spot on the model.

Also, you'll find out that the painting is nothing, nothing like placing the decals: at least on my Enterprise they are about a foot long, several of the severed when I was placing them on.

Anyway, looks like you did a great job on assembly, good luck post some pics of the final product  8)

Well I have been focusing my efforts on other things recently which ill post photos of shortly.