darthviper107
Sr Member
That is really gross, try to get your money back and see how it goes. It's not anywhere near worth $500
I think you can. You are just getting the resin to soften a bit, but be careful. Then comes the hard part of holding it in the correct position until it cools. It looks like if you try local warming of the fiberglass and stretching it this would end up in distortion. As hard to control as it will be I think you are going to have to gently heat up the entire section. Maybe boiling water? Heat gun? Hair dryer?
Best of luck if you do.
If you have any way to file a claim or return it, maybe give them a shot.
Here's what I went through with an RShanko 1/2 ss TOS Enterprise https://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=139508 A lot of the pics won't show. Transferring from photobucket to my server.
At best you can use the Serenity kit as a shell. Though redo ALL of the surface detail & massive corrections to the profile.
That is really gross, try to get your money back and see how it goes. It's not anywhere near worth $500
Honestly I'd like to do a kit at some point, but it'd be a lot of work. Also, I'm not sure about the licensing thing, it'd be best to get a license just in case, but I'm not sure Universal would bother for a small run of kits.
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I really debated whether it was worth it as a base and what I would need to do to fixed. Not including all the surface details that needs to be removed and redone, a least half the main body needs to be reformed or replaced. When I considered how I was going to have to do it, and what I had left to work with, I realized I was probably going to have to put in as much time and effort fixing it as I would if I had scratch built it.
Your right, not at all worth the money... On top of the physical distortions, the thing is an eggshell and has a ton of cracks in the fiberglass. I filed a damaged return claim, and they finely relented and agreed, so back it goes.
Thanks ever so much for everyone's input!
-John-
For the film, the cg model was reworked to resolve incongruities with the interior sets... they had the time and deemed it worth the effort. So in short, prior to that it was very much a work in progress.