Polar Lights Refit Photo-Etch

ThomasModels

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A couple of years ago while working out the Refit 1701 kit design, I had proposed including photo-etched handrails, crew figures and detailing bits for placement inside of the hangar bay/cargo hold. After digging out the art for those parts, I assembled the elements and rendered a few more into the set for this:

refitPEweb.jpg


The newly rendered detail parts kit includes window frames for the large room windows, impulse thruster grills, aft engine plates, retracted flight deck doors, accurate two part airlock exterior doors, flight deck observation windows, hangar deck and cargo hold structural beams, aft door for an open ended Trek V shuttle, cargo hold handrails, inspection pod door detail, botanical garden wall details, accurately shaped cargo containers to fill the cargo hold, and scale crew figures in multiple poses.

Many of the hangar photo-etch details were originally designed to be included with the Polar Lights kit but were removed for budgetary reasons. Now you can own these original detail parts and several other parts to add that ultra fine level of detail to the exterior and interior of the largest licensed Star Trek plastic model kit ever produced.

This 5.7" (14.5 cm) x 4.6" (11.8 cm) size kit is engraved in .008" brass and retails in the neighborhood of $40 each. Each kit is packaged and include placement instructions.

Thanks. :)
 
Sweet *****, Thomas. Now that is just a work of art right there. You can count me in for a set.

Are there still plans for eventually releasing the corrected parts that the overseas manufacturer got a little wrong (ie influx grills, impulse engine, etc)?
 
I got paid the day after the deadline for the special pre-sale, and thus missed it. Any idea when you'll be restocked and selling them again? I don't care if I'll be paying $15 more for it. I just want/need this set.
 
The restocked sets are in process right now. They may be here in about a week. When I have them ready to go again, pntmodels.com will have them on the site for purchase.

Here are a couple more shoys of the parts that were test fitted.

One thing many posted complaints about was the lack of 'open' bay doors. This kit contains four parts to resemble the flight deck doors when open. Two parts are shown here assembled:
http://www.pntmodels.com/images/pe5.jpg

Impulse thrusters:
http://www.pntmodels.com/images/pe6.jpg

VIP Lounge windows:
http://www.pntmodels.com/images/pe7.jpg

Docking port. The two parts are shown here assembled and inserted into one of the kits recessed ports:
http://www.pntmodels.com/images/pe8.jpg

Botanical Garden:
http://www.pntmodels.com/images/pe9.jpg
http://www.pntmodels.com/images/pe10.jpg

Most of the rest of the kit is for detailing the flightdeck/hanagr bay/ cargo storage interiors.

There's an eight page assembly manual that shows clearly where parts go, how to cut them from the sheet, file and sanding, and how to bend the parts that need to be bent. The kit comes packed with the manual, a color packaging insert, all backed up with a double face brown corrugated cardboard sheet and inserted into a reclosable zipper bag.
 
Cool...
It is a shame you can't offer the these parts without any of the inside detail parts such as the docking bay and garden parts.

I just want the out side body detail parts.

I'd buy a set if you did, I don't want to waste money on a set that I would only use a 1/4 to 1/3 of.

Lynn
 
Well. . . .

There is some chemical burned fanmade stuff out there. I think they have their own version of docking ports and impulse grills for about $12 a set.

I really didn't want to take the same approach, making five or six separate sets that would range from $8 - $10 each, as buying all of the sets would cost much more than a single all encompassing detail kit. Aside from that, the set up charges on multiple sheets would be very expensive and I would very likely be sitting on a bunch of single impulse grills, docking ports or window frame kits as opposed to completely selling out of the the first run of the full detail kits.

If you don't have a use for all of the details, take what you need and give/sell/trade the remaining $25 worth to a friend or fellow modeler. The silhouetted figures can still be used behind many of the larger window openings inside to give you a better appreciation of scale and add a finer relatable detail.

Or don't. ;)
 
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