The following are reader's opinions of the USS Defiant made by ERTL. |
Reviewer | Rick A. |
Date Reviewed | Feb 12, 2001 |
Overall Rating | Well worth getting. |
Comments | I enjoyed putting together this kit!! But although it lacks clear parts I got around this by cutting out and drilling and installed lighting anyway! The kit doesn't fit together pefectly near the rear of the model. And the decals are hard to apply; especially the rounded red pin-stripers!! But I used leds and lightsheet for mine. I even cut-out the 8 roof top plasma vents and made blue light shine through! |
Reviewer | Rene Alamo |
Date Reviewed | Sep 10, 2002 |
Overall Rating | Average. Get it if on sale or you love the subject. |
Comments | I have spent over 100 hours in building this kit since there are so many areas which do not fit correctly. For the most part the detailing is very good. The areas I have had the most issues have been the parts in the fron and rear around the engine nacelle. When fitted they will leave a huge gap and filler just will not deal with it. Be prepared to spen some time on this. |
Reviewer | Jeffrey Griffin |
Date Reviewed | Aug 1, 2003 |
Overall Rating | Average. Get it if on sale or you love the subject. |
Comments | Not too bad, but inaccurate. Needs some minor work to "pretty" it up. |
Reviewer | maki |
Date Reviewed | Jun 20, 2005 |
Overall Rating | Good kit, but with some problems. |
Comments | Assembly: At first , I glue upper and lower main hull part. Then glue small parts. I shave original panel line , and I engrave new line for washing down black paint.It takes long time. To add front pulse phaser canon muzzle , Impulse engines nozzle and some hull lights, I use Kotobukiya modeling supoort goods series circle mold parts set. I see DS9dvd and starship and federation pages of Shuukan Star trek(Japanese weekly magazine) for reference. But I basicly made as I like. Painting: I paint flat white overall after painting a surfacer. So I musk by the tape and paint each coler section. Same as assembly ,I basicly paint as I like. Stand color is the same as Communicator pin. When I put on some waterslide decals, I was careless enough to rip them. Some decal lie to the hull ligths . So after the decal putting on ,I must cut out around lights.At the end I spray clear matting paint. Overall: The number of the parts is very few, so it is easy to assenble this kit. But The hull is too big to display in the room,there are not Clear parts like the other AMT kit, and panelline mold is not good for washing down. However, I enjoy work for this kit, because I love Deep Space Nine very well. I think this kit hardly come into the market now ,so the niner should buy this kit. |
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