Construction Log: Starcrafts 1/1400 Scale Saber Class Starship

While I was putting together the Excelsior class project, I had one more ship on the side burner that I finished up pretty much right after the first couple Excelsiors: the Starcrafts 1/1400 scale Saber class from First Contact. It’s a smaller design and a simple model to assemble: just three opaque resin parts and […]

Construction Log: Excelsior Class Starship and Variants – Finished! (Or Are They?)

The 4-starship project that started in November 2021 started to wind down in the end of December, and by early January 2022 I was just about done with all the Excelsiors. Except, I wasn’t. Okay. I admit it. I bit off more than I could chew with this build set, and because fate has a […]

Construction Log: Excelsior Class Starship and Variants!

Back in 2018, Starcrafts gifted us with a lovely gem that I reviewed here: a 1/1400 scale STIII era Excelsior class model to compliment their original STVI version. It languished in the stash for 3 years before I finally decided that it was time to pull that out and get to work. And while I […]

Construction Log: Galaxy Class Starship & McKinley Station – FINISHED

I continued work on the station all along while I was painting up the Galaxy. I started with some red oxide primer for the arms and strongback, which turned out to be the perfect color, and then I got busy filling in some of the inaccurate windows from the model. This station isn’t 100% accurate […]

Construction Log: Galaxy Class Starship & McKinley Station

As the Cardassian fleet wound down, I started thinking of the next thing to pick from my stash. My entire plan was to wrap up the year 2021 with a trio of Galaxy class builds — the OG Galaxy, the AGT version, and finally the Nebula class that Starcrafts was about to release. Sadly, the […]

Construction Log: Starcrafts 1/1400 Scale Jem’Hadar Fighters Start To Finish

While we were working on the big jem’Hadar ship, it made sense to build the little fighters concurrently. Now, I had the older Macro Trek J’H fighters which were one-piece simplified resin castings, but the newer Macro Trek ones were beautifully accurate and come in 2 parts per model. I got mine direct from Starcrafts […]

Construction Log: Starcraft’s 1/1400 scale Jem’Hadar Battle Cruiser – FINISHED!

Let’s roll back to April of 2021 and show off the finished product of all those months! When we left the last post, the basic lighting was done and we were getting down to the wire. I had to sort out the rear impuse engine, so that’s what I tackled next. The Starcrafts lighting kit […]

Construction Log: A Two Week Challenge, AKA Never Trust a Breen!

The next project started taking shape as my Cardassian fleet was finishing. After all the Dominion ships I’d done, I felt like there was just one thing more missing: those nefarious BREEN needed to be represented in the fleet. I had one last casting from my Nova Hobbies Breen molds that had been rattling around […]

Construction Log: Macro Trek’s 1/1400 Cardassian Galor and Friends!

I’m not sure which is crazier: the fact that I haven’t blogged any of my model projects for over a YEAR, or the fact that I’ve gotten so very much done in such a relatively short amount of time! I have a lot of updates to add in the coming weeks. It won’t be fast, […]